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Best Comedy | 1980 | Dick
This is the last film appearance by Richard Beckinsale. He died during editing of the film.
The film was shot at Essex's Category B jail HMP Chelmsford, before it was returned to service following a fire in March 1978. The film company admin offices were located in the prison's hospital block.
This movie came out after the sequel Going Straight (1978) had finished, but it is set before with Fletcher in the same prison as the original series.
The Slade inmate Lotterby is an homage to Sydney Lotterby, the BBC producer who oversaw Porridge (1974) and its sequel Going Straight (1978) on television. Porridge (2017) features a character named Joe Lotterby, played by Dave Hill, who served a sentence at Slade in the 1970s alongside Norman Stanley Fletcher, and who subsequently becomes the cell-mate of Fletcher's grandson, Nigel Fletcher, at Wakeley Prison.
Officer Beale suggests to Mackay "his" idea of bringing a team of celebrities up from London to play a prisoners' team, claiming it will "work wonders". He is holding a Double Diamond beer glass, which was advertised at the time as "working wonders".
"[watching Mackay testing the curry in the prison kitchens] Fletcher: Course, he sees 'imself as an authority on curry, he does, on account of where he was stationed in the army. Rudge: India? Fletcher: No, Bradford."
"Fletcher: You're lookin' a bit down in the mouth, Mr Barrowclough, anything the matter? Mr Barrowclough: Oh, nothing much. The usual. Domestic crisis. Fletcher: Oh dear. Mrs Barrowclough left you, has she? Mr Barrowclough: Unhappily... no Fletcher."
