The Best Episodes of Porridge Season 1

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.2/10(245 votes)

   #1 - A Night In

   S1:E39/19/1974

   Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
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   8.2/10(230 votes)

   #2 - A Day Out

   S1:E49/26/1974

   The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
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   8.1/10(214 votes)

   #3 - Men Without Women

   S1:E610/10/1974

   Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
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   8.0/10(262 votes)

   #4 - New Faces, Old Hands

   S1:E19/5/1974

   “Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!” It's Godber's first time in prison, and Fletch is going to teach him the ways.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
5. 

   7.7/10(234 votes)

   #5 - The Hustler

   S1:E29/12/1974

   Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets, he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
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   7.6/10(211 votes)

   #6 - Ways and Means

   S1:E510/3/1974

   Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writers:Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
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