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Post by Anthony Harvison on Dec 14, 2004 10:51:53 GMT
I was reading about Porridge the other day and discovered that Fletcher et al actually first appeared in a comic anthology series a while before the series proper. I'm just wondering if this proto-porridge episode exists and also if the This Is Your Life for Richard Beckinsale (77) is safely in the archives?
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Post by andrew martin on Dec 14, 2004 11:00:20 GMT
The pilot of "Porridge" was called "Prisoner and Escort", and was first shown on 1/4/73 in a series of one-offs called "Seven of One", all starring Ronnie Barker. It does still exist, and has been repeated on British tv many times (usually as part of repeat series of "Porridge") - the last time being 3rd of May this year. The only other one of the "Seven of One" to be developed as a series was "Open All Hours", shown 25/3/73, though the series didn't follow until 1976.
I don't know about Richard Beckinsale's "This is Your Life", but I wouldn't be surprised if it did exist.
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Post by David Brunt on Dec 14, 2004 11:32:48 GMT
I don't know about Richard Beckinsale's "This is Your Life", but I wouldn't be surprised if it did exist. The Beckinsale edition 23-11-77 does survive. All the TIYL episodes from late 1975 onwards exist. |
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Post by Anthony Harvison on Dec 14, 2004 13:25:12 GMT
Thanks very much for the info!
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