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Big screen spin-off of the BBC’s popular Seventies sitcom. Habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is currently ‘doing porridge’ at Slade prison, but only has a year to go. He and cellmate Lennie Godber (Richard Beckinsale, who sadly died shortly after filming was completed) are content to bide their time – until they accidentally become involved in an escape plan while playing a morale-raising football match against a ‘celebrity’ team. Desperate not to ruin their chances of parole, Fletcher and Godber find themselves in the unusual position of trying to break back into prison without being caught! Synopsis This feature-length version of the Porridge [1979] TV series continues to follow the exploits of prison inmates Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) and Lennie Godber (Richard Beckinsale). A new officer (Christopher Godwin) makes Mackay (Fulton Mackay) look postively timid and, to make things even more exciting, an escape plan which Fletch wants no part of is developing.