Going Straight

Going Straight is a comedy that I've only just come across, although I may have caught a glimpse of it a few years back on a UK Gold like channel - I probably wasn't aware of what it was, mistaking it for an episode of Porridge where Fletch was for some reason on the outside! Although Going Straight may have been panned, I've thoroughly enjoyed catching up on six episodes of the show. Most readers here will know "Porridge" the excellent prison based comedy starring Ronnie Barker as Fletch and Richard Beckinsale as Godber and many more, well Going Straight is a spin-off that sees Fletch trying to "go straight" on the outside, it too stars ...  Read the complete review

"Going Straight" was a sitcom from the BBC that only ran for one series from February to April 1978. It was a spin off from the highly successful sitcom "Porridge" starring the master of comedy Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, (Fletch) the old lag from Slade Prison, and his young cellmate Lenny Godber (Richard Beckinsale) as his old cell mate. Going Straight continues the tale of the two not so desperate desperados when they are finally released back into society, and from the tender (and not so tender) ministrations of their old warders, Mr Mackay and Mr. Barraclough. Fletch has come to the decision that ...  Read the complete review