Vintage comedy porridge, set in Slade Prison, starring Ronnie Barker. From the BBC This is a channel from BBC Studios who help fund new BBC programmes. Service information and feedback: www.bbcstudios.com/contact/co...
These shows were funny and my memories, I remember watching this with my dad and my uncle and other shows like on the buses, bless this house, are you being served, man about the house love thy neighbor some mothers do have em and a few more We used to eagerly await for these shows to air once a week that kept us happy and laughing all week How good did we have it back then this showed the enormous talent of these guys and girls and what we had back then and makes today's talent look very very sick and not funny at all making me wonder what has happened over the years and how dumbed up people are today and actually forgotten how to laugh, I would love to see reruns of these shows back on tv,
Love this darker side of Fletcher, it only surfaces I thinl twice in all the episodes. He knows to keep your 'nose clean' however when push comes to shove, you don't mug him off!... Nuff said.
one of my favourite exchanges in this series takes place not long after an earlier blood-curling scream from harris. grouty: "hello fletch, i've just been havin' a word with harris" fletcher: "yeah, i heard it"
Later on the reverse happened when Fletch explains how he got the pills Fletch - Those were not the original pills, I had to get them using all my ingenuity Grouty - Yeah, I heard you
Ronald Lacey (Harris) was actually about to retire from acting and be an agent full time just before he got the Raiders part. His Bishop of Bath and Wells would have stolen the second season of Blackadder if not for Riks Lord Flasheart. Everyone in that scene, including the studio audience are dead now.
Ronald Lacey. Thanks for pointing it out. Great character actor. I remember he starred in a tv play years ago about the poet Dylan Thomas . Good stuff.
The original pills fell through the prison top floor into Fletcher cup of tea if I remember correctly. It was only late on before lights went out, when he went to wash his cup out he discovered them.
Case in point some years ago in a nightclub. Fight, someone got seriously hurt, police called & 150 men & women were in their respective toilets & didn't see anything. No witnesses 'cos it was an inter-gang feud & grassing up would mean witnesses being ....dealt with.
like everybody else i would have heard harris screaming second time, but them two inmates chatting away on the stairs either didnt hear him or they just madly in love with each other
In prison you don't want to get involved in others arguements or fights -and you look the other way. That's what they were doing. Want their problem- why take sides and cause grief for themselves.
All four of the main cast we see in this clip are no longer with us. Richard Beckinsale was taking to young. Also Ronald Lacey was only in his mid 50s. Such a waste of 2 great talents.
