Porridge (TV series) Porridge (TV series) Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series, and included two Christmas specials and a feature film of the same name (in the United States, the film was released under the title "Doing Time"). The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show's title is a reference to both
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