\n Porridge, the hit British comedy show, was set at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumbria.\n<\/p>\n
\n The show, which ran from 1974 to 1977, has become a household name over the years.\n<\/p>\n
\n It is remembered as one of the iconic shows of Britain’s golden age of TV comedy, alongside On The Buses, Only Fools and Horses, and Fawlty Towers.\n<\/p>\n
\n Porridge starred the ever-popular comedian Ronnie Barker, who was one half of the duo The Two Ronnies with Ronnie Corbett.\n<\/p>\n
\n The episodes follow the lives of Norman Fletcher (Barker) and Lennie Godber, played by Richard Beckinsale, who are incarcerated at Slade prison in Cumbria.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fletcher is described as a ‘habitual criminal’ who is serving five years for his latest crime.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pilot episode sees Fletcher’s journey from a London prison to rural Cumbria.\n<\/p>\n
\n The episode follows Barker’s character as he is transported through the Cumbrian countryside.\n<\/p>\n
\n A cast photo from the sitcom Porridge (Image: BBC)\n<\/p>\n
\n In one scene where he is having a conversation about cinemas with a prison guard, he refers to the area.\n<\/p>\n
\n He says: “It’s so flaming remote up here, it’s tucked in the middle of Cumberland. Where are you going to find a cinema?”\n<\/p>\n
\n The guard makes another reference, mentioning a “monthly day trip to Workington.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Fletcher says, “I can understand why the lights of Workington would turn a young girl’s head.”\n<\/p>\n
\n He continues: “Amenities in Workington, they haven’t even got Christianity up here yet.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Some scenes of the show were actually filmed in Cumbria, with scenes filmed in Windermere during the final episodes.\n<\/p>\n
\n The interior of the prison wasn’t filmed in Cumbria. Instead, these scenes were filmed in BBC Studios.\n<\/p>\n
\n Other parts of Cumbria that were used for filming of the show include Ennerdale, Carlisle, Kendal, and Alston.\n<\/p>\n
\n Whilst the show has become a beloved British institution in the years since it first aired, many people may be unaware of the strong Cumbrian connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Porridge, the hit British comedy show, was set at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumbria. The show, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-365772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}