Where to Watch Porridge Online

Want to watch "Porridge" on your TV or mobile device at home? Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or play the comedy TV series via subscription can be difficult, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services – including rental, purchase, and subscription platforms – along with the availability of "Porridge" on each platform. Now, before we get into the nitty-gritty of how you can watch "Porridge" right now, here are some particulars about the BBC One show.

Originally premiering September 5th, 1974, "Porridge" stars Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Fulton Mackay, Brian Wilde. The series runs 3 season(s), and has a score of 81 (out of 100) on TMDB, which assembled reviews from 48 top people.

Curious to know what the TV series is about? Here’s the plot: "Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms."

"Porridge" is currently available to stream via subscription, rental, or purchase on Amazon Video, BritBox Amazon Channel, and Apple iTunes .