Richard Beckinsale

An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s Fletch influenced Slade Prison’s characters. There is also a look at 1978’s Going Straight, Porridge: The Movie, the US remake On the Rocks, and the 2017 reboot starring Kevin Bishop and Ricky Grover.

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.

A 1976 play concerning an unemployed school leaver becomes involved with professional car thieves. Part of the ITV Playhouse strand.

Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office.

Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape.

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.

A pop band and their girlfriends have fun in Spain

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

Retomando los papeles de la serie de televisión que primero los convirtieron en nombres familiares, Richard Beckinsale y Paula Wilcox interpretan a Geoffrey Scrimshaw y Beryl Battersby, una joven pareja vacilante e inexperta que intenta negociar el campo minado sexual de la sociedad "permisiva". Esta transferencia a la pantalla grande de la comedia de situación enormemente simpática de Jack Rosenthal muestra a la chica anticuada Beryl que continúa abofeteando los avances de su frustrado novio, cuyos torpes intentos de iniciar 'Percy Filth' sugieren que él mismo no está del todo preparado. Como todos los demás, Geoffrey y Beryl quieren enamorarse, o creen que lo hacen; como todos los demás, desde Adán y Eva. Pero Adán y Eva no vivían en Manchester en 1972...

Armitage es el director de una compañía de productos químicos que está a punto de producir un gas que causa incapacidad temporal. Los militares lo codician, pero también un grupo japonés. Tanto Armitage como madame Greenfly contratan detectives en la misma agencia para robárselo mutuamente...

A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.