Changing attitude - Porridge - BBC classic comedy
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2007
- Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is encouraged to share some words of wisdom with his new cell-mate.
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as time passes i think porridge was the greatest sitcom ever.
The final lines of the greatest sitcom of all time. Timeless perfection.
They had a sequel to this show btw
@@christopher0261 There is indeed. "Going Straight", it's on RUclips. It's brilliant.
Not in this clip but it always cracks me up when mackay refers to a bicycle as a by- cycle 😂😂😂
@@christopher0261going straight
You know what, this is still a good show and always, somewhere on the airwaves episodes are still being shown.
I miss the TV of the 70s and early 80s. We had fewer channels, but it was of better quality.
Your probably right
Yip
Rose tinted nostalgia. There was an awful lot of shit.
@@chrisearle1542 can’t be worst than “celebrities building a snowman like we had this past Xmas.. 😳😳, at least back then there were the two ronnies, morecambe & wise, steptoe and son, loads of Xmas specials
So true my friend
I love the dynamic between these two, brilliant actors and great writing. Classic
12years Buttercup!
Wow!
Thats gotta be the oldest comment l ever seen on social media.
....are ya still burning bright?
@@michelleedwards6112 14year old comment now!
Dont the years just fly by JH/buttercup my friends.
Try going straight. Series one episode one. A fantastic fletch/ mackay two hander.
@@highdownmartin thanks! Seen it and love it
They wouldn't be able to make a comedy half as good as this anymore.
Norman Stanley Fletcher , you cant help but love this loveable rogue . Ronnie Barker was a pure genius
Ronnie Barker was .....Is!....Probably the greatest charactor actor England has ever produced
The guy is an absolute genius!
Sir Laurence Oliver held him in very high regard.
Check out Ronnie Corbett's book for the full story!
I think you could be right.
Another big fan was Gene Wilder. There's an interview with him singing his praises some where.
@@colindorrans9495 One legend praising another :)
Patrick Troughton and Arthur Lowe were pretty good as well.
Leonard Rossiter was very good, but apparently not a nice guy in real life
Sadly great actors no longer with us greatly missed RIP gentlemen .
Don't let the bastards grind you down. Too true. :)
"He's not a Scot, is he? Because we do draw the line somewhere, you know."
"No, Fletcher, he's from Sunderland."
"Oh, dangerously near." hahaha
You can tell he’s suppressing laughing being a Scot
@@Adam_Gecko Yeah, Fletcher was always getting a dig in at our northern neighbours, wasn't he? lol
Never heard of it 😉
@@mermaidman1985 Right near Newcastle!
I used to think I was working class, then I went to Glasgow, now I think I'm middle class....hahaha
Come to Newcastle...you'll think your upper class mate
These two were some of the best scenes in comedy ever. Their relationship was wonderful to watch.
Ronnie Barker: Comedic Legend.
fletch is a legend
ruclips.net/video/pY1x5gPTEJ4/видео.html
i remember watching it in brixton nick during association, and everyone was roaring laughing screws and cons alike!
Hope Ya bin going straight in the last eleven years bro?
Could watch these 2 all day superbly written and delivered
Two great actors
This sketch is one I simply can't forget. Every time the system weighs heavy, I remember those 3 pointers ✌️
One of thebest comedys ever on british television
The last part, with the fingers, is so simple, but brilliantly funny.
Brings tears. The brilliance of comedy from tragedy, and with that very fine touch of pathos. Fletcher is our true hero of reform, a good man at heart, good because he knows where he is and why. He doesn't need forgiveness, Just recognition that he's done the work from crooked to straight
Amazing actors these two
Changing attitudes indeed. Ive noticed that re-runs of the show often blur the pin-up pictures on board on the cell wall.
Oh, tell me you're joking. PLEASE.
@@CathyKitson I'm not joking.
@@andyoncam1 Christ on a bicycle. You can see people gyrating about in a sexual frenzy on any pop video anywhere and they're blurring a couple of BOOBS???
And i had noticed on Gold that they blurred out Fletcher holding up his 2 fingers as well don't know if it was this episode or another episode or beeped out the word Bastards too it becoming an annoying habit on this and every other classic comedy from the 70s
I am Spanish and all British TV comedies are a great success in Spain. Maybe because they are the best? 💂💕😄
He's not Scottish is he? We need to draw the line somewhere ha ha, I love that bit and I'm half Scottish!
I love that bit and I'm whole Scottish! 😂
@@angelakay2899 I love that bit and I'm Scandinavian :-)
Which half?
This is one of the best sitcoms ever made.
Somewhere on the airwaves this show will always be playing- because it's timeless. And that's the genius of Ronnie Barker.
I agree with many of other comments here. Fulton Mackay WAS good. Very clever scripts too. Better than Open All Hours. Ronnie Barker far better than some of today's comedians.
I read somewhere that fellow actors had to be on the ball with ronnie barker as he was such a master of ad libbing. He was also very gracious, if he felt that a line in the script sounded better coming from one of his co stars he would give it to them instead.
Robert Edwards You'd be hard pressed to find any of today's comedians that would even be fit to press Barkers trousers. Nevermind come close to his comedic timing or writing.
Fulton mackay was a great actor, I don’t think anyone else could play his part better and Barker just brilliant, I miss them both
One of the best UK comedy moments IMO. Love it
Ronnie Barker was a comic genius
Fabulous .Credit to Clement and Le Frenais ,they are responsible for some timeless classic British tv.
Auf Wiedershen pet series 1+2 will always be my favourite,but Porridge was/is a class act itself.
Comedy gold. The Beeb would never give this the go ahead now.
And that's why we don't give the bbc a go these days
The writers at the time were in two minds whether to make porridge as a situation comedy in a prison had never been done before. It was completely new territory. But it turned out to be a big hit among real prison inmates!
Actually I've been watching this on BBC I player, the only caveat is, there is a warning about outdated language.
you could live your life by ronnie barker ,s quote of his 3 rules,top show
One of the greatest wits of all time....
0:17 "I did not expect to hear it so readily from your lips"
Love that line.
Just saying.
TV is dead without people like Ronnie Barker.
There is a very good reason that there are no dislikes for this video.
They're not registered anymore. :P
Iam glad to have this on dvd I loved it from day one brings so much joy ❤❤❤
Superbly written and acted, really good.
I love this scene, suggests that despite everything Fletch and McKay had a grudging respect for each other and that McKay had put Godber in with Fletch as he knew he’d look out for him and know he’s asking him to do it again.
And that respect for each other was total later on when they met on the train in the sequel series 'Going Straight'. Fulton Mackay and Ronnie Barker, comedy legends forever.
great series, have it on dvd now... back when you could call a spade a spade.
Loved the series, but this scene is definitely my favourite.
Brilliantly written, brilliantly cast and brilliantly acted by all!. Some writers of today need to take notes considering some of the dross being offered!
Thank you for the upload great life advice.
What casting Filton was pure class
Fulton
"Ooh, dangerously close". Lol
How on earth can people put thumbs down to this
Very sensitive jocks lol
They can't anymore.
He's not a scot is he ..that's a classic
Beautiful
Wanting to laugh after he hears the comment about Scot’s lol
pure gold
I love this one.❤❤❤
It's not aged in the slightest, still as sharp and funny as ever. It was such brave idea to set a sitcom in a prison, it could have been disastrous. It must have been tricky deciding what Fletcher's crime should be. It had to be serious enough for him to go to prison for 5 years but not so serious it would turn the audience off of him.
Habitual criminal, so it was open to interpretation
It could be he also fenced stolen goods which would get a sterner sentence
And in the pilot episode he had been caught when he drove a truck he stole through a shop front
Mackay is acted so well. That slow twitch and fixed smirk. The only character as loathsome would be Nelly Olsen.
I'm from Sunderland myself, I knew a lad at school called Nickleson...heard he's doing porridge now.
Did McKay just predict the future?
Pretty sure Porridge contained chilling forewarning of the 9/11 attacks, so could well be...
@@IndependentGeorge76 how so?
"Don't let the bastards grind you down" was just in 'A Handmaid's tale' last season as well.
Great stuff, classic comedy.
Never as a sitcom got such a great role call of characters:
Fletcher
Godber
McKay
Barrowclough
Heslop
Ives
Lukewarm
Warren
McLaren
Blanco
Grought
Harris
'Orrible Ives!
*has
*Barraclough
*Grout
@@SundaeExpress Grouty!
Brilliant comedy from genius👏.
Awesome
Words of wisdom.
Simply the best
Those squeaky boots at the start… hilarious
Best show ever
I love this scene. Both men have changed
Back in the days when the BBC still made great comedy shows and brilliant drama s unfortunately those days are now long gone ,
Back in the days of wit and actors who could act.Unlike today's box ticking diversity PC choices picked largely for who they are rather than what they can actually do.
@@Marvin-dg8vj well said
@@Marvin-dg8vj FFS the usual fascist shit on anything before 1985 on RUclips.
@@LeeH688 there was plenty of rubbish as well before 1985 but there was also more merit .You have no idea what the past was like .People coped with real toughness and adversity and came out the other side.
They still do but you're too much of a blinkered old snob to notice.
Grouty could even put the frighteners on the the Govenor !
*Governor
@@SundaeExpress your a right piss pot, ain't ya, a lock in a sock, or a pp9 battery would sort you out, and getting your hand slammed by a prison cell door, would stop you from typing shit in other people's comments section,
So very Funny 😆 will never loose it’s edge on 🇬🇧 humour 😎
*lose
It's funny because the officer in this scene is a Scot and has a thick Scottish accent in real life.
Absolutely superb. What a pity this is usually bleeped out now for broadcast. 🥺
Where? It's never bleeped on the Beeb.
Mr Mackay was brilliant
Good afternoon Sir..... Good afternoon Sir!...Sir!
Nobody wins Mr McKay ,show the sprog the ropes 😄😄😄
Also in Sweden by the time, english
humor suit us...
He's from Sunderland, oh dangerously near
They don't make wonderful comedy
Like this anymore, oh well happy days.
It is actually quite poignant to watch this.
There was some real feeling conveyed by actors who knew their trade.
Yes they do but you're too much of a blinkered old snob to notice.
1970.s comedy the best ever
Fulton McKay trying so hard not to corpse..
I caught that too
Newspaper headline "MPs in bribes story". The more it changes the more it stays the same
@@SundaeExpress because that's what the headline says. MPs in bribe story. That programme was 40 years ago, just the same now. Does that explain it or do you want further explanation?
@@SundaeExpress I'm not being patronising, It was you who asked the question, I was just answering it.
@@SundaeExpressagain, I wasn't being patronising, you asked the question, I just answered it.
UK prison service told this week NOT to call prisoners, prisoners, nor cons, but 'people of lived experience' !!!!! Absolutely firkin' bonkers.
And blatantly untrue. Stop believing everything GBN tells you 🐑
Worldwide lol
Hes from sunderland :D
Love the two-pronged salute at the end!
That would trigger the guys at Facebook
?
RIP Dimebag
@SwainNigs
I'm afraid I don't agree. I enjoy Family guy a lot, one of my favourite TV shows. Porridge is my favourite TV series though, with such brilliant writing although i do not like Rising Damp (especially as it does not have the gem that is Ronnie Barker).
each to their own. personally i think rising damp is one of the funniest BRITISH comedies ever made.
There is no "middle class" there's the working class and the super rich, don't kid yourselves
Check out the rhyming slang sermon .RUclips .
Secret police
?
Why can't they look at fletcher properly
Who?
Turnkey, screw, the lowest form of servant to the Queen 👸 fact,
Your opinions are facts now? Thanks for the update, oh Great One
Does comedy acting come any better than this
Bettered only by Fawlty Towers.
Tough one to call in all honesty.
@@danw1374 Depends if you prefer physical or 'use of language'-based comedy, in my mind The Marx Bros are the ultimate because I love the wit and the imagination whereas others argue the 3 Stooges are better because they find being poked in the eye really funny
Towers dont come close!
Only Fools and Horses gets anywhere near Porridge.
And the charactor Fletcher...blows Basil Fawlty and Dell Boy outta the water!
In my humble opinion :
@@oldskoolfool141
Good shout
@@michelleedwards6112 very humble lol
Such a shame BBC is now rubbish.
I never found the Two Ronnies funny, the play on words and the jokes were totally predictable and puerile but as comic actors they were both excellent, as in “Sorry” and “Porridge”. However there was one disgusting episode in Porridge, even allowing for what was deemed acceptable at the time, that put me right off Ronnie Barker. I think the episode was called “The Desperate Hours” and involved Mrs Jamieson, the Governor’s Secretary. Fletcher is in the Governor’s office and crowds Mrs Jamieson into a position where she has to slide past him while he plainly presses his crotch against her with a lecherous smirk on his face. It was totally unnecessary and I am no longer a fan.
Boo hoo
@@danw1374 What a wonderful attitude to women you have.
@@johncrosley1 Yes I have actually I treat women with respect and nobody has told me otherwise. Think you need to lighten up pal and get down off your self righteous soapbox. This show was made over 40 years ago and you're only complaining about it now???
@@danw1374 I never saw the original broadcast so this episode was new to me on Freeview. Just like Til Death Us Do Part and other programmes deemed unacceptable these days this particular episode should have been left in the archives.
@@johncrosley1 Well Till death us do part was satirical comedy and was brilliantly written and acted. But it's not the writer Johnny Speights fault if a few boneheads decided to take the racist dialogue literally.
Wanting to laugh after he hears the comment about Scot’s lol