My dad watched this when I was so young I never understood what he was laughing at, brings so many memories back watching these as my dad no longer here I now understand why he laughed this is the best comedy alongside only fools and horses
@@carly8490 Yes, I know the episode you're talking about but later than that, in episode 2 of Going Straight, they talk about his wife Isabelle moving out to live with someone called Reg Jessop who owns a cardboard box factory.
Going Straight - S1 E3 Going Sour 0459am 9.5.23 this isn't a show about an ex-con it's about the tedium that ensues with reference to the average joe who had no desire to join up and see the world, doin' his duty for a country which has no love for him nor any desire to shine at anything in the name of love or art, no desire to take sides with the vast malaise that are the upper echelons or the animalia aka the plebs that litter life and are deemed it's movers and shakers... p.s Ingrid is really irritating.
I agree. I thought it'd been canned because when Fletch was removed from Slade prison the situation bit of 'sitcom' changed for the worse and messed up the dynamic of the show, but I was really surprised at how good it was. I can only assume it was really cancelled because of Richard Beckinsale's untimely death.
@@fjccommishno where near similar.... Fletch and arkwright are more far apart than Granville mums legs. That's the beauty of Ronnie Barker and his character acting. To think fletch and Ronnie Barker is same person is something I still can't fathom
When I first found,, open all hours,, for a whole year I thought RB really stuttered. When I found this today I was stunned at his plain speaking. True.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏😘😘😘😘😘RIP Ronnie.
So throughout the course of his career Fletch met both of the Trotter brothers; Del Boy worked in a shop with him and Rodders was briefly his son. They don't make 'em like they used to. RIP Ronnie
The young actress who plays the little waif gives a beautifully convincing performance. As she exclaims "I can look after me self!" we know how vulnerable she really is.
Saying that this wasn't as good as Porridge is unfair - Going Straight proved very popular upon launch and attracted over 15 million viewers and even won a BAFTA the following year in 1979. Plans for a second series were made but were dropped due to Richard Beckinsale's untimely death that year. If it wasn't for Richard's passing, I reckon this would have been as popular as Porridge, but didn't get the chance to. Like Porridge, Rising Damp, etc, this is top drawer stuff and miles better than the trash that passes for comedy today.
@@angusmeigh5141 also the manager of the motel acted in the nursery program with Richard . And the girl in the the corner shop that Ronnie Barker brought a cupa tea for acted in George and Mildred .
In many ways this had a lot more potential than Porridge, as it allowed all the characters and their backgrounds to be explored. RIP Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale and Patricia Brake.
@@spookygirl7761 porridge is first and about Fletch and godber in prison and is on you tube and then it's going straight.Ronnie barker(Fletch is also on the two Ronnie's and is Arkwright in open all hours).There is also a movie called porridge.
Love this Series and such a shame (although totally understandable) that Ronnie just didn't have the stomach to do more after Richards death. Also of note is that Roberta Tovey played a 16 year old delinquent very convincingly given the fact she was 25 when this was made.
@@Tconcept I totally disagree. First off Godber wasn't even in this episode, but considering this series revolved around Fletch's home life, it couldn't have been easily finding ways of including Godber in the stories... In Prison Godber needed Fletch which created that dynamic between them but on the outside it was Fletch who was a little lost at sea whilst Lennie found it the easier to adapt to the outside world. Sadly, neither of them would enjoy freedom for long as was proved in the 1979 film, Doing Time.
@@KebabMusicLtd As I understand it, Doing Time was set during the final season of Porridge, even though it was filmed after. It's probably fair to assume that neither Godber nor Fletcher ever went back to prison.
I love this show and many like it. Fools and horses. So good. I would love to come to one of these without seeing a “tv these days is so bad.” The Detectorists is every bit as good.
Ain't that the bird who embarassed Rodney Trotter by stripping down the Nag's Head with Sid the snake? Remember, he had a bet with Mickey Pierce for 50p
😂 .. The Chairman of Tennents Association was in the cafe aswell! Lol .. Remember that OFAH episode where him & Trigger both vote Rodney as the new Chairman n he falls while swinging on the chair? 😂😂
28:06 "missionaries must feel like that you know , I mean , it can't be all beer and Skittles out there in the jungle" ~ All Beer and Skittles , perhaps (could have been) , a good title for follow up series . Loved listening to this again ~ I had completely forgotten it . Recommended .
Humour has always changed. Go back 100 years and you'll probably find many jokes that aren't funny anymore; I don't know why people think this is something new. In another 50 years this might be considered a politically correct joke again.
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My dad watched this when I was so young I never understood what he was laughing at, brings so many memories back watching these as my dad no longer here I now understand why he laughed this is the best comedy alongside only fools and horses
This series is criminally underappreciated.
@@carly8490 I think she'd left him and moved in with someone else. There's a bit in Porridge that mentions it.
@@carly8490 Yes, I know the episode you're talking about but later than that, in episode 2 of Going Straight, they talk about his wife Isabelle moving out to live with someone called Reg Jessop who owns a cardboard box factory.
@carly she moved in with reg jessup the box maker fletch said it in the last episode
Going Straight - S1 E3 Going Sour 0459am 9.5.23 this isn't a show about an ex-con it's about the tedium that ensues with reference to the average joe who had no desire to join up and see the world, doin' his duty for a country which has no love for him nor any desire to shine at anything in the name of love or art, no desire to take sides with the vast malaise that are the upper echelons or the animalia aka the plebs that litter life and are deemed it's movers and shakers... p.s Ingrid is really irritating.
Weres kerry
Every few months or so I come back to watch this series.
It's a brilliant piece of work.
The best thing Ronnie Barker did in my opinion.
I think porridge beats this but loved Ronnie barker all the same
@michaelgregory8322 same difference....
Never seen this series until this day and now watched the whole episodes back to back, bloody great show.
The funny thing is that Nicholas Lyndurst is playing a sort of younger version of Rodney !
I agree. I thought it'd been canned because when Fletch was removed from Slade prison the situation bit of 'sitcom' changed for the worse and messed up the dynamic of the show, but I was really surprised at how good it was. I can only assume it was really cancelled because of Richard Beckinsale's untimely death.
@@marwood1969 Yes. Sadly Richard died and Ronnie Barker and the writers decided it was best to leave it after that, understandably.
@@martinputt6421your exactly right, if this had gone on we probably wouldn't of had Nicolas Lyndhurst, play Rodney.
@@marwood1969I think that’s the general consensus and I agree with it. I know Ronnie Barker had mentioned how saddened he was by Richard’s death 😢
“Show me a milkman in high heels and I’ll show you a Dairy Queen” LMAO! Gotta love classic British comedy 😂
Don’t get it.
@@bolshevikproductions dairy queen a beaty pagent winner.
My probation officer believes in White privilege. Bang me up again.
Show me a man who laughs at defeat and I’ll show you a black chiropodist with a sense of humour.
@@gweilospur5877 Ha! That’s hilarious lol
Ronnie is an angel with dinged-up feathers... Heart of gold. Sets a good example for all.
We also sadly lost the beautiful Patricia Brake from cancer in 2022. Reminds me of how short and fleeting life is. 😢
Was getting on a bit tho....
We were all young once as if there was no tomorrow
@@eahannan you can't park there Dave !!!
RIP Patricia Brake. Thanks for the laughs (and the high C).
Thanks, great blend of comedy and soul searching Ronnie was amazing !!
And the writing was excellent.
The genius of Ronnie is that he is as good in roles like this and in things like Open All Hours. Versatile and even got better over the years.
They are similar characters.
@@fjccommish lol true i think he means a likable character etc
Exactly! Agree
And he wrote sketches for the Two Ronnies.
@@fjccommishno where near similar.... Fletch and arkwright are more far apart than Granville mums legs. That's the beauty of Ronnie Barker and his character acting. To think fletch and Ronnie Barker is same person is something I still can't fathom
Playing Raymond was good practice for playing Rodney,
Genius insight there buddy
Two different character.......@@jadedwitness9840
Young Lyndhurst was in a small movie called Father’s Day. Strange, but IMO worth watching. Talented. It’s on RUclips.
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it first understood.” ― Leonardo da Vinci.
@Wilson Guillermo is it free?
When I first found,, open all hours,, for a whole year I thought RB really stuttered. When I found this today I was stunned at his plain speaking. True.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏👏👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏🙏😘😘😘😘😘RIP Ronnie.
He doesn't even remotely resemble fletch. He was best character actor of all time
Loved watching Poridge when i was a kid in the 70s....
This man makes me angry with the new actors nowadays sitting around waiting for an award when they can’t even hold a candle to this man THIS IS TV
Surely it should be hold ''fork handles" to this man
Or " Eggs box!" and "o's" "Got any o's?!"
Literally no actor does that. Sit down and put your rubbish back in your pocket.
Exactly, they don't make them like they used to!
Burke!
This brilliant. So underated.
All the old classics are the best 👍
a classic. a true classic
Fantastic. Still love it.
Priceless! I still use the phrase "like a wet Sunday afternoon in Merthyr Tydfil" (8:58), even though I've never been to Merthyr.
You've never been? Best to keep it that way!
@@MrBannystar Speak for yourself have enjoyed watching football there many times
@@MrBannystar There's more history attached to Merthyr Tydfil than in the whole of England.
@@MOGGS1942 lol
@@MOGGS1942 The English are not great friends of the Welsh..
Ronnie Barker a legend
Love Ronnie & Richard rip young men great actors
I wasn't born for porridge and this but my grandad told me about them,so much better than the rubbish about now,thanks I really enjoyed them.
So throughout the course of his career Fletch met both of the Trotter brothers; Del Boy worked in a shop with him and Rodders was briefly his son.
They don't make 'em like they used to. RIP Ronnie
Del Boy did Porridge with Fletch too.
John Sullivan's 1st choice to play Del Boy was Ronnie Barker but he turned it down
The girl playing Penny is Roberta Tovey born 1953 and played Susan in both the Dr Who movies from the mid 1960s with Peter Cushing.
So David Jason and Nicolas Lyndhurst knew Ronnie Baker as well as doing only fools and horses. Bloody great comedian’s
RB was the godfather of character acting
Second reference to Stoke Newington I've had in two days. Thanks Stewart Lee!
The young actress who plays the little waif gives a beautifully convincing performance. As she exclaims "I can look after me self!" we know how vulnerable she really is.
And was Susan in the two Peter Cushing Dalek films
@@IshmaelSkyes Roberta Tovey
@@IshmaelSkyes taller than she was in those movies
@@newforestroadwarrior Indeed; daughter of George Tovey
@@IshmaelSkyesThank you for your reply. I had forgotten about her role in that Dr. Who film.
Saying that this wasn't as good as Porridge is unfair - Going Straight proved very popular upon launch and attracted over 15 million viewers and even won a BAFTA the following year in 1979.
Plans for a second series were made but were dropped due to Richard Beckinsale's untimely death that year.
If it wasn't for Richard's passing, I reckon this would have been as popular as Porridge, but didn't get the chance to.
Like Porridge, Rising Damp, etc, this is top drawer stuff and miles better than the trash that passes for comedy today.
Which one was Richard beckinsale please?
@@sheilagravely5621 godber. From porridge .the lorry driver.
This series also starred Nicholas Lyndhurst of Butterflys and Only Fools and horses fame!
@@angusmeigh5141 also the manager of the motel acted in the nursery program with Richard . And the girl in the the corner shop that Ronnie Barker brought a cupa tea for acted in George and Mildred .
Has somebody being reading Wikipedia
This is very well written. Episode one as well
Absolutely love this programme and porridge and ofah and open all hours and still open all hours
The bit where I he says I gave her a bath, I laughed out loud, brilliant
😂😂🤣🤣🤣 yeah
He fornicated with her more like
To think in just over 2 years time, Nicholas would be going on to become Dave
Yeah, he's actually playing a younger version of Rodney/Dave here.
In many ways this had a lot more potential than Porridge, as it allowed all the characters and their backgrounds to be explored.
RIP Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale and Patricia Brake.
The characters were allowed to get out a lot more.
FLETCH (to 16 year old): How old are you?
GIRL: Thirty Six
FLETCH: You look older.
Bloody hell, that's Rodney when he was a kid!
Yes and even dumber
Watched these when they came out. Great!
One of the best comedy actors ever was ronnie barker
Yes one of the very best
Superbly written and acted. Beckinsale's untimely and way too early stopped to the 2nd series from going ahead. May all the stars RIP.
Which one is Beckinsale?
@@spookygirl7761 he played Lennie godber Fletch's cellmate
I don't think I've gotten that far yet to know who he is. Yet. I just discovered this show. I love it.
@@spookygirl7761 porridge is first and about Fletch and godber in prison and is on you tube and then it's going straight.Ronnie barker(Fletch is also on the two Ronnie's and is Arkwright in open all hours).There is also a movie called porridge.
@@chantalsscaleisafibberand Clarence,, chantel,, what did you think of that sitcom????.
this was such a great show
This is a very underrated series. Because it was the sequel to porridge it has been overlooked .
Love this Series and such a shame (although totally understandable) that Ronnie just didn't have the stomach to do more after Richards death.
Also of note is that Roberta Tovey played a 16 year old delinquent very convincingly given the fact she was 25 when this was made.
This is like watching a young Rodney 😂 brilliant
Thank you for the upload. Both Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale are very good in this,and Porridge.
The daughter is superb in this, keeps fletch down to earth, godber seems awkward and out of place, the relationship with fletch completely gone.
@@Tconcept I totally disagree. First off Godber wasn't even in this episode, but considering this series revolved around Fletch's home life, it couldn't have been easily finding ways of including Godber in the stories... In Prison Godber needed Fletch which created that dynamic between them but on the outside it was Fletch who was a little lost at sea whilst Lennie found it the easier to adapt to the outside world. Sadly, neither of them would enjoy freedom for long as was proved in the 1979 film, Doing Time.
@@Tconcept ingrid seems more like his wife than his daughter
@@KebabMusicLtd As I understand it, Doing Time was set during the final season of Porridge, even though it was filmed after. It's probably fair to assume that neither Godber nor Fletcher ever went back to prison.
22:13 Arkwright "If I can help somm b body, as I pass along"
Ronnie barker and Ronnie Corbett can’t be beat. All their shows are good for a good laugh which is missing nowadays. Love um all
Fletcher properly still thinks he is in the nick cause it's a Saturday and nothing to do
Its all connected though, Raymond is Del boys brother Rodney and and Del is Barker's assistent in open all hours .
Those were the days when you go to the match without making a major financial decision first.
I never knew this existed until today What a genius mr barker was.
Susan from the 60's Dr Who movies is all grown up.
Thank u, uploader
What a gem 💎
Just watching old shows before thair band so I can keep good memories alive
What a brilliant show!
Imagine now a days, excon offers underage, run away, vulnerable girl to come back to his for a shower and sleep!
I think it was a bit suspect in them days too mate 😂
It's how the Wests lured their victims.
In the 1970s people were more helpful though. And with him being late middle aged with a family he is more trustworthy.
From what Google says, the age of consent was 16 back in 1970's UK. It may have been questionable, but not illegal if anything had happened.
@@Here_is_Waldo It still is 16.
so good and funny love think its so funny
Hey, I grew up in Portsmouth.
Not that bad.
Going Straight was great to watch (10/09/2022)
Dave Hill who plays Arthur was in the Porridge remake.
She pinched the bloody fiver ❤️❤️😂😂😂
I love this show and many like it. Fools and horses. So good. I would love to come to one of these without seeing a “tv these days is so bad.” The Detectorists is every bit as good.
Ain't that the bird who embarassed Rodney Trotter by stripping down the Nag's Head with Sid the snake? Remember, he had a bet with Mickey Pierce for 50p
@@skinnygrave2487 I knew I recognized her voice. Veronica 😂
😂 .. The Chairman of Tennents Association was in the cafe aswell! Lol .. Remember that OFAH episode where him & Trigger both vote Rodney as the new Chairman n he falls while swinging on the chair? 😂😂
The guy who played Aurther was in the new one off episode of porridge.
I love the UK's phrase, GET OFF...GET OFF!! LOL
Now it's leave off
..or sod off! lol
penny lived in the TARDIS
Nufink ta do in Pompie?
One could always join the Navy.
Still here 2020
2021, june.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏👏😘
October 2022
May 2023
August 2024
September 2024
Thanks for the laughs Patricia Brake R.I.P.
Is that the daughter?
@@spookygirl7761 No its the Grandson ?
@@galin95 sarcasm, I see. Perfectly normal question. Zee louise.
What does Zee Louise mean ??
Gee. (finish the rest).
27:58 "It's fucked you up, 'ant it?" 😁
"Yeah. Yeah it has, yeah. Yes it's a nice feeling" 😂
Excellent 👏👏👏
Rodders!!!
28:06 "missionaries must feel like that you know , I mean , it can't be all beer and Skittles out there in the jungle" ~ All Beer and Skittles , perhaps (could have been) , a good title for follow up series .
Loved listening to this again ~ I had completely forgotten it .
Recommended .
Anyone else think the cafe owner may have been Harry Enfields inspiration for Stavros?
Orient beat Mansfield 4-2.
Wonder why this was never on that channel that always repeated Porridge, it's as if they forgot it existed. I had no idea it did.
the milkman is from of&h too
Richard Holland milkman from SECRET ARMY
Ron Pember - Alain. Hero.
Plays the original chairman of the tennants' association, before Rodney gets the job
Rodney
You plonker
Its Dave you dipstick!
Shut up you tart. 😆
Dave
We all used to give a 16 year old girl a bath 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣them were the days
how did this only get 6 episodes?
Because Richard Beckinsale died……
@@1960dave1960 Thank you for the clarification I didnt know that.
Rodney hows Dell, god he looks young
Should have give her one 😂
I would of
The master ❤
2024 anyone?
Watched the whole series again a few months back.
@@edgein7892same
@@edgein7892 same
Patrica / Ingrid was hot!
I am guessing this aired originally in the mid 70s ? The unemployment references are suggestive .
Hmm , I hadn't heard a Brit quoting George Washington before . Not often Americans do , as well .
Believe it was 78
After the Silver Jubilee.
March 1978, this was.
@@marccas10 But before Thatcher came to power.
Thought the Italian was Furio from Sopranos. Talks like him too.
2:01 Feels like a joke that they could BARELY get away with in the '70s. That feels like a joke way before it's time.
very young rodney ie nic lyndurst
"A woman of the opposite sex", got a laugh back then. Today's women might not be of the opposite sex.
Oh you mean those mentally ill men who mutilate themselves who we all have to pretend look like women?
Today's joke society is embarrassing.
Humour has always changed. Go back 100 years and you'll probably find many jokes that aren't funny anymore; I don't know why people think this is something new. In another 50 years this might be considered a politically correct joke again.
@@Here_is_WaldoI think the point is that gender ideology is not rational, as it is based on lies.
Didn't know Nicholas Lyndhurst was in this
He’s the bloke that shared the cell with Nigel Fletcher in the remake of Porridge
The dairy queen 😂😂😂😂
That's a very young Nicholas Lyndhurst as the son...almost didn't recognise him.
what time is it 😂
I've paid the price I've done me times...
15:28 I didn't know 7up was around in the 70s.
Good old Ron Pember.
Is this one of the first appearances of Nicholas Lindhurst? I knew he was in Butterflies but hadn't realised he was in this.
Up the city!
@@hermanthetosser4219 A fellow Canary! Get in....
Chim, chimeney, chim chim charoo.
tv today what total shite thank god for ronnie and youtube
yawn
Great how we can access these legendary TV shows via youtube, even on your Phone.