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
Norwegian porridge feud Norwegian porridge feud The Norwegian porridge feud ("grautstriden") were a series of public debates that was going on in Norway between 1864 and 1866, concerned with the optimal way of cooking porridge. The participants were Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Eilert Sundt. The core of the debate was about whether or not it was redundant to add flour to porridge after cooking it. The background for the debate was that Asbjørnsen published a cookbook in 1864 called "Fornuftigt Madstel. En tidsmæssig Koge- og Husholdningsbog" (approximately translated as, "Sensible Fare. A Modern Cooking and Housekeeping Book"), under the pseudonym Clemens Bonifacius, where