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Porridge renews its cell by date on stage

A new theatre show proves there’s more to the era of classic TV sitcoms than nostalgia.

It’s been a while since Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais did time with Porridge. Even so, the prison-set sitcom they wrote for Ronnie Barker, which originally ran between 1974 and 1977, has never really escaped from public view.