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The first series of Ronnie Barker's much loved sitcom Porridge was broadcast on 5 September 1974. Barker starred as Norman Stanley Fletcher, "an habitual criminal who accepts arrest as an occupational hazard" serving time in HMP Slade. It was written by Dick Clements and Ian la Frenais, who managed to mine comedy gold from the disparate characters banged up together, while not ignoring the unpleasant facts of prison life.