Doing Time (1979)
- Starring:
- Ron Barker, Richard Beckinsale, (more)
- Director(s):
- Dick Clement
Synopsis of Doing Time
Doing Time is the American title for the British-made Porridge. Based on a popular TV sitcom, the film stars Ronnie Barker as the unofficial leader of a group of cut-up inmates in Slade Prison. These lovable lawbreakers engineer the escape of a timorous first offender who has been railroaded into a long sentence. Barker accidentally winds up "outside" with the escapee--and spends the rest of the film struggling to break back into jail. British fans of Porridge weren't happy with this film version, citing attenuated material and repetition as its chief shortcomings. For the record, Porridge was the basis for a brief American sitcom titled On the Rocks, which ran (not without resistance from the National Association for Justice) from September 1975 to May 1976. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Doing Time
- Ron Barker - Fletcher
- Fulton Mackay - Mackay
- Peter Vaughan - Grouty
- Geoffrey Bayldon - Governor
- Barrie Rutter - Oakes
- Rod Culbertson - Callaghan
- Barry James - Delilah
- Bunny May - Alf
- Karl Howman - Urquhart
- Michael O'Hagan - Medical Officer
- Nicholas McArdle - P.C. Townsend
- Oliver Smith - McMillan
- John Barrett - Hedley
- Elizabeth Knight - Sheila
- Tony Osoba - McClaren
- Sam Kelly - Warren
- Andrew Dunford - Armstrong
- Richard Beckinsale - Godber
- Brian Wilde - Barrowclough
- Julian Holloway - Bainbridge
- Christopher Godwin - Beale
- Daniel Peacock - Rudge
- John Dair - Samson
- Philip Locke - Banyard
- Colin Rix - Lassiter
- Robert Putt - Atkinson
- Paul McDowell - Collinson
- Robert Hamilton - Cox
- Robbie Lee - Tinkler
- Gorden Kaye - Dines
- Duncan Preston - Weatherman
- Paul Luty - Chalky
- Derek Deadman - Cooper
- Stewart Harwood - Whittakar
- Director(s):
- Dick Clement
- Writer(s):
- Ian La Frenais, Dick Clement
- Producer(s):
- Allan McKeown, Ian La Frenais
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