Going Straight

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Going Straight
Ronnie Barker in Going Straight
Format	Comedy
Created by	Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Starring	Ronnie Barker Richard Beckinsale Patricia Brake Nicholas Lyndhurst
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	February 24 – April 7, 1978
Chronology
Related shows	Porridge (TV series)
External links
IMDb profile

Going Straight was a BBC sitcom which emerged as a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as prisoner Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade prison where Porridge had been set.

It sees Fletcher trying to re-emerge as a valued member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release.

Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who was Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with his daughter Ingrid (Patricia Brake). Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Only one series of only six episodes was made, in 1978, with Barker singing the theme tune. The programme won a BAFTA award in March 1979. Hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier in the same month.

[edit] Episode list

• Transmitted 24 February–7 April 1978.
  • "Going Home": Fletch, having been paroled, makes his way home from prison. On the train, he bumps into Mr Mackay and an old friend.
  • "Going to be Alright": Fletch visits his probation officer and reveals his wife has left him.
  • "Going Sour": Fletch is diverted from his own problems when he comes across a young punk girl and tries to set her on the straight and narrow.
  • "Going to Work": Fletch is set up with a job by his probation officer as a night porter, but can't face starting his first ever job.
  • "Going, Going, Gone": Fletch recognises an old fellow inmate and does his best to prevent a crime from occurring.
  • "Going Off the Rails": Fletch almost falls off the straight and narrow on the day Godber is to marry Ingrid, but has a change of heart before it's too late.

[edit] External links

• Going Straight at the Internet Movie Database

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