RTBWTV November 3rd 2024
A leisurely stroll around the exercise yard of the Golden Age of British Television (1956 and the Suez Crisis to 1974 and the three day week) to inspect the role of prisons and prisoners in comedy and adventure series. Guy Morgan and David Newell dig their way out of the labyrinth and dodge the searchlights to uncover what happened to criminals after they'd been nicked in that last sixty seconds of regular crime shows.
Of course we mention the 50th anniversary of Porridge, but also uncover its predecessor, Her Majesty' Pleasure - a very different bowl of gruel.
Dave touches on the (mainly French) classics which feature notorious jails and escapees and we ask what's uppermost in the mind of an old lag as he steps out of the prison gates? Here's a clue, it's not his Mum's home cooking…...
We also nod to characters who are stuck in a hard place thanks either to bad luck or sinister, clandestine forces.
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