Going Straight

Going Straight

infobox television
show_name = Going Straight


caption = Ronnie Barker in "Going Straight"
format = Comedy
runtime = 30 minutes
creator = Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
starring = Ronnie Barker
Richard Beckinsale
Patricia Brake
Nicholas Lyndhurst
country = United Kingdom
network = BBC One
first_aired = February 24
last_aired = April 7, 1978
num_episodes = 6
related = nowrap beginPorridge (TV series)·wrap nowrap end
imdb_id = 0077016|

"Going Straight" was a BBC sitcom which emerged as a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as prisoner Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade prison where Porridge had been set.

It sees Fletcher trying to re-emerge as a valued member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release.

Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who was Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with his daughter Ingrid (Patricia Brake). Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst.

Only one series of only six episodes was made, in 1978, with Barker singing the theme tune. The programme won a BAFTA award in March 1979. Hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier in the same month.

Episode list

Theme Tune

The theme tune, sung by Ronnie Barker, detailed Fletch's determination to go straight, an ambition first laid out in the Porridge episode "Men Without Women":

Cquote|I'm goin' straight, I am, straight as an arra'. I've paid the price and done me time.I'm goin' straight, I am, Along the straight and narra', and I don't mean straight back to crime.

The full lyrics of the song can be seen [http://www.porridge.org.uk/gslyrics.html here] .

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