Sitcom · 1970s
Porridge
No Way Out
Slade prison at Christmas: Fletch, Godber and one very big plan.
- Family-safe
Content note: Mild language, dated prison humour
BBC One
1975
First shown 24 Dec 1975
- First shown
- 24 December 1975
- Channel
- BBC One
- Runtime
- 41 mins
- Genre
- Sitcom
Where to watch
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Norman Stanley Fletcher is determined to spend Christmas somewhere warm and quiet, so he has hatched a plan to book himself into the prison hospital and stay well out of trouble. Unfortunately, Grouty has a scheme of his own to free another inmate, and he is not about to let a minor detail like the infirmary stand in his way. Porridge's longer Christmas special takes a good hard look at the lengths a man will go to avoid work, and the results are warm, sharp and very funny. Pour yourself a nice port.
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