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
The Jewel in the Crown (TV series) to outsiders is not romanticized, just contemplated, celebrated, just as its intoxicating physical beauty is." In reviewing the box-set video in 2010, Alexandra Coghlan of "The Guardian" wrote that the series "sits alongside Brideshead Revisited as the high-water mark of 1980s British TV." The Jewel in the Crown (TV series) The Jewel in the Crown is a 1984 British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during and after World War II, based upon the "Raj Quartet" novels (1965–75) by British author Paul Scott. Granada Television produced the series for the ITV network. The serial