Men Without Women (Porridge) will be his final stretch, because nowadays, it's mostly kids in prison and Fletcher's the father figure. When Fletcher returns to Slade prison on Sunday evening, Barrowclough and Mackay discuss Fletcher's change in attitude. Mackay comments that Fletcher has learned that he cannot beat the system, but as he looks through the peephole on the door of Fletcher's cell, he sees Fletcher sticking the fingers at him. Fletcher achieved this by holding his paper, and then moving it to show the V-sign. Men Without Women (Porridge) "Men Without Women" is an episode of the BBC sitcom "Porridge". It first aired
Porridge (TV series) September 2009 to positive reviews. "Porridge" was immensely popular with British prisoners. Erwin James, an ex-prisoner who writes a bi-weekly column for "The Guardian" newspaper, stated that: He also noted: The script allowed the prisoners to swear without offending viewers by using the word "naff" in place of ruder words ("Naff off!", "Darn your own naffing socks", "Doing next to naff all"), thereby popularising a word that had been recorded at least as early as 1966. Ronnie Barker did not claim to have invented it and in a television interview in 2003 it was explained to him on camera what