Porridge (TV series) to make more episodes, but Barker was wary of being "stuck with a character" and also wanted to move on to other projects, so the series came to a close. Barker did, however, reprise his role as Fletcher in a sequel, "Going Straight", which ran for one series in 1978. A feature-length version of the show was made in 1979 and in 2003 a follow-up was aired. The prison exterior in the title sequence is the old St Albans prison gatehouse and HM Prison Maidstone, which was also featured in the BBC comedy series "Birds of a Feather" (HMP Slade
Lockup (TV series) to use in their cells for recording their thoughts. Titles within the franchise deal in specific areas as follows: Most episodes end with a 'recap', explaining what happened to a given inmate (or, on occasion, a staff member) months or years after the taping; subsequent episodes will frequently return to a given prison (and/or a given inmate) to revisit them several months later. The cancellation of "Lockup" was announced on June 29, 2016, with the 25th season as the series' last. Lockup (TV series) Lockup is a prison documentary series, produced by 44 Blue Productions, which airs on MSNBC. The