After an OK pilot episode that was not a disaster, Porridge returns as a series and some of its problems become apparent.
Writers Clement & La Frenais are pilfering from their own back catalogue so you just see a rehash from Ronnie Barker's Porridge not helped that actor Kevin Bishop is overdoing it with Barker's mannerisms.
Here Nigel is writing love letters and lodging appeals for fellow prisoners and making a mint out of it. Things gets a bit complicated when he thinks one of the prisoner's girlfriend takes a shine to him.
I guess in the 1970s illiteracy levels in prisons was high but I would have thought that more prisoners would be able to write something to their loved ones back home. I just felt that the episode was stuck in a time warp and it ran out of gas.
Writers Clement & La Frenais are pilfering from their own back catalogue so you just see a rehash from Ronnie Barker's Porridge not helped that actor Kevin Bishop is overdoing it with Barker's mannerisms.
Here Nigel is writing love letters and lodging appeals for fellow prisoners and making a mint out of it. Things gets a bit complicated when he thinks one of the prisoner's girlfriend takes a shine to him.
I guess in the 1970s illiteracy levels in prisons was high but I would have thought that more prisoners would be able to write something to their loved ones back home. I just felt that the episode was stuck in a time warp and it ran out of gas.