Plot: During World War II, George Mainwaring, a bank manager, appoints himself as the leader of the local Home Guard contingent comprised of regular town folk too old to join the British Army.
Plot: `Porridge' is a sitcom about the inmates of HM Prison Slade, where habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher finds himself engaged in all manner of scrapes with the warders and his fellow prisoners while serving a five-year term for burglary.