You see any interview with Richard Beckinsale and there is a yearning each time that you wish you could go through the screen to tell him to get his heart looked at thoroughly !
After all these years watching and loving Porridge, I never knew that some of the interior walls were made of fabric! I know we can look back with rose tinted glasses, but the likes of Ronnie, Richard and John Noakes were absolute geniuses. They may be gone, but certainly not forgotten. Every now and again you get someone trying to remake the classic stuff. You really cannot replicate the original. It was more than the sum of its parts. Just pure chemistry.
Delightful to see the cast speaking out of character. Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale seemed so diffident yet were so incredibly talented. More than 40 years on British TV still seems all the poorer for the loss of Richard Beckinsale.
Great little clip & interview with Ronnie, Richard & Co...Back in the days when comedy was gold and most importantly allowed..Fantastic series which was full of superb actors who are all sorely missed X 🥰🙏❤🇬🇧
God I used to love Blue Peter. They always communicated with the young as if they were mature and didn't patronise. I'm really enjoying this channel I'm glad I found it lol
I watched Zulu Dawn the other day, which Lacey filmed a year or so after this. A very good performance, as always. He was a quality actor, pity he drank himself to death.
We were lucky to have one man involved in what would be 2 of the top 5 British comedies ever - Ronnie Barker. Porridge and Open all Hours. Yet knew when it was time to retire and step back to enjoy the rest of his life running an antique shop.
Remember, this was a report made for children about a sitcom with situations that today would trigger the PC brigade to claim that the BBC is glorifying prisoners and exposing children to things that they shouldn't be. This was the same era that kids watched It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers, Dave Allen and many, many others whose only crime was to instill a decent British sense of humour.
Fantastic opportunity to look at the Porridge TV set and some of the legendary cast, One of the less dangerous on Blue Peter for John Noakes presenting Jobs that time, I loved watching his presenting and he nevermind being put in the deep end of the pool by our great BBC.. 😊
Something you don't see everyday is John Noaks and Fulton McKay together, those two of my favourite Kids TV personalities, Noaks for BP and McKay for ITV's "Fraggle Rock"
Ronnie Barker was an incredible character actor. When John was interviewing him you still couldn't imagine this guy was playing Fletcher. It just shows how mundane making a film is, The patience these guys need to have, sitting about, numerous takes, rehearsal, taking in your script, coming in and out of character. Incredible.
It's not difficult to imagine that Fulton Mackay really was in the Black Watch. He definitely had a military air about him in all of his mannerisms. You can just imagine him barking orders on the parade ground.
I was on holiday years ago and got talking to a guy who worked for Jim Henson and worked on Fraggle rock and he said Fulton Mackay was a lovely guy but was also the most vain celebrity he had ever worked with..... funny the things you remember
Beckinsale had 2 big Hollywood roles lined up: Arthur (1981) that made Dudley Moore into a megastar & Charriots of Fire (1981) that won the Best Picture Oscar. Had he lived I'm sure he would have won the Oscar himself & become a #1 Box Office star
Just a minute! I was expecting this classic children's TV program to be a demonstration of how to make that wonderful breakfast dish, and it to explode all over John Nokes, and Val to whipe it off him with a part of her dress soked in warm milk....... Oooohhhh, I may have drunk too much Gripewater again!
if its just air clip from blue Peter show, there must be a unedited versions, but the where very fond of just binning stuff back then, it's surprise we have this clip
Slightly mystified that Sydney Lotterby is directing here, but Dick Clement is credited as director of the Porridge movie. Is this the TV show? Wasn't that shot on videotape?
In this clip, the production team are filming the inserts for the TV series. Once edited, the inserts would be played into the studio recording where the smaller sets (cell interior, governer's office etc) were. For example, when Fletch walked out of his set (in the TV studio), they would run the insert film of eg Fletch walking across the whole prison set. The studio output was recorded onto videotape (2") and later edited to produce the final show for broadcast. If you watch any episodes of the TV series, the change in the nature of the image when cutting from the TV studio to the filmed inserts is very marked.
@@jonbignold4711 I was always fascinated by that choice of using film for exterior work and video tape for the studio work. They look so different on screen when combined together. I guess video tape was mostly confined to the studios as it was costly to use on location back then?
@@johnking5174 Yes, I'd say that's true - electronic capture outside a studio was mainly confined to outside broadcast units which were used for sporting events and major public events. Although there were mobile recorders, these events were usually recorded "down the line" at television centre or at a regional centre. 2" VT recording apperatus was big, expensive and cumersome by today's standards - requiring e.g. compressed air and skilled maintenance. The other very significant factor is that electronic editing was in its infancy. Whilst it was very effective for editing together the parts of an "as live" studio recording, the demands of traditional film editing (reworking a piece over a longer period of time, reordering, adding music and effects etc) were harder to do electronically - and there was already an established workflow from the film world. You may be interested to know that one innovation used in Porridge was the still frame which formed a visual punch line before the credits ran. Creating a still frame was no easy feat. It was achieved using the slow motion replay equipment normally used for sport. There was just one such (video disc) recorder inTelevision Centre, I forget the exact figure but I think it could record about 30 seconds of pictures.
@@jonbignold4711 Fascinating. I had the pleasure of visiting BBC Television Centre a couple of times (before it was torn to pieces into the modern version we have now). Loved the place. Got lost in it a few times, trying to find my way from TC8 to TC1 I remember was one occasion.
@@stephenchappell7512 and to be fair, it was his own personal car. still on the road as well, 68,254 miles at last MOT and only advisory is a minor oil leak.
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Heartbreak that Richard died so young. He was a brilliant actor.
He sounds strange without the Birmingham accent he used as Godber.
Yes it is, such a shame, he would have been so proud of his daughters
@@wobber999 Indeed. Samantha and Kate. Both successful actors. They followed in their parent's footsteps. His widow Judy Loe is also an actor.
Apparently he started as a Brummie but he gradually started to use his own Nottingham accent in the later episodes.@@Nooziterp1
He was a brilliant actor in porridge he died very tragically of a heart attack.
You see any interview with Richard Beckinsale and there is a yearning each time that you wish you could go through the screen to tell him to get his heart looked at thoroughly !
Maybe, but his daughters have done him proud.
John Noakes. Legend. When presenters talked to children like young adults, not patronising them the way they do now.
Noaksy drove a Marcos! The guy really was a legend.
How is someone a legend because of the car they drive?
Noaks is a legend because of the work he did on the telly. He also drove a proper legendary car.
@@RGChandler fair enough
It could have done with a good wash!
Top man With a top car.
Fascinating to watch this 45 years later
After all these years watching and loving Porridge, I never knew that some of the interior walls were made of fabric! I know we can look back with rose tinted glasses, but the likes of Ronnie, Richard and John Noakes were absolute geniuses. They may be gone, but certainly not forgotten. Every now and again you get someone trying to remake the classic stuff. You really cannot replicate the original. It was more than the sum of its parts. Just pure chemistry.
Ahh to go back to this time would be Great, my family was all around, the tv was Excellent and I was a very young schoolboy. Better times ❤️
Ronnie Barker was absolutely brilliant in this series 👏
Delightful to see the cast speaking out of character. Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale seemed so diffident yet were so incredibly talented. More than 40 years on British TV still seems all the poorer for the loss of Richard Beckinsale.
I remember this being a feature of a Blue Peter annual, given to me by my granny for Christmas.
Great little clip & interview with Ronnie, Richard & Co...Back in the days when comedy was gold and most importantly allowed..Fantastic series which was full of superb actors who are all sorely missed X 🥰🙏❤🇬🇧
Love you loads and forever, Shep! RIP gorgeous doggy. X
God I used to love Blue Peter. They always communicated with the young as if they were mature and didn't patronise. I'm really enjoying this channel I'm glad I found it lol
This was shot during the heyday of the paedophiles at the BBC think On that
Funny thing is Porridge was not aimed at the same audience as Blue Peter.
The chap playing Harris at 6:00 is Ronald Lacey. He played the Gestapo man with round glasses in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Wow! I never knew that.. that's so cool!
No way! Good knowledge!
Was also a baddie in the episode of The Sweeney where two robbers robbed a bank and took customers hostage
He also played Audrey's husband in The Likely Lads film.
I watched Zulu Dawn the other day, which Lacey filmed a year or so after this. A very good performance, as always. He was a quality actor, pity he drank himself to death.
Beckinsale,Barker,Mackay and Noakes. All dead now,takes me back to my youth.
We were lucky to have one man involved in what would be 2 of the top 5 British comedies ever - Ronnie Barker. Porridge and Open all Hours. Yet knew when it was time to retire and step back to enjoy the rest of his life running an antique shop.
Don't forget Clarence one series but was. So good
@@andrewhammond4819 "going straight"
Don't forget The Worm That Turned.
I never knew that Jonathan Pie was a blue Peter presenter back in the day
😭😂
Mr McKay, my favourite comedy character ever. RiP Fulton.
How many greats can you fit into a film clip? Even the legendary Shep was there. What a fine motor John Noakes was driving too.
Was it a Marcos?
@Lookup2Wakeup Imported from the Philippines.
Noaks was great , and a nice motor too.
You could almost believe Fulton MacKay was a real prison warder.
Definitely
Agreed. Sign of a great actor.
Remember, this was a report made for children about a sitcom with situations that today would trigger the PC brigade to claim that the BBC is glorifying prisoners and exposing children to things that they shouldn't be. This was the same era that kids watched It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Benny Hill, Fawlty Towers, Dave Allen and many, many others whose only crime was to instill a decent British sense of humour.
I think some very intense therapy might be warranted, mate. A few screws seem to have come loose.
What a fantastic collection of characters from that era.
Fantastic opportunity to look at the Porridge TV set and some of the legendary cast,
One of the less dangerous on Blue Peter for John Noakes presenting Jobs that time, I loved watching his presenting and he nevermind being put in the deep end of the pool by our great BBC.. 😊
Very good, never seen this before, have always loved porridge and had a bit of it when I was much younger lol.
Brilliant bit of television. Thank you.
Porridge was widely praised at the time for how accurate and faithful it was to the real thing.
Something you don't see everyday is John Noaks and Fulton McKay together, those two of my favourite Kids TV personalities, Noaks for BP and McKay for ITV's "Fraggle Rock"
I'm slightly surprised that Noakes had a flash sports car. I'm much less surprised that it was filthy!
Ronnie Barker was an incredible character actor. When John was interviewing him you still couldn't imagine this guy was playing Fletcher. It just shows how mundane making a film is, The patience these guys need to have, sitting about, numerous takes, rehearsal, taking in your script, coming in and out of character. Incredible.
@casa did you get a reaction from prison warden's. Sounds like erection though.
one of my favourite comedy programmes and have always liked ronnie barker in the 2 ronnies and in this one
To think this is Blue Peter and aimed at kids !!!!
Anyone who thinks the deliberate 'dumbing down' of society is nonsense should think 🤔
Noaksy was brilliant and of course with his trustee hound.
Get down Shep....
It's not difficult to imagine that Fulton Mackay really was in the Black Watch. He definitely had a military air about him in all of his mannerisms. You can just imagine him barking orders on the parade ground.
Who remembers him playing an RAF officer in Some Mothers Do Ave Em?
Great behind the scenes footage! Pity it wasn’t included on the Porridge DVD set.
yes
Noakes sounds like he said “do you get an erection from prison wardens?”
i thought that as well
So sad that Richard died so young talented actor.He would have done so much more. Ronnie was a genius 😢
Completely wonderful
Legendary characters and actors. Of course Fulton McKay went on to be the Captain on CITV's Fraggle Rock with his pet dog Sprocket
I was on holiday years ago and got talking to a guy who worked for Jim Henson and worked on Fraggle rock and he said Fulton Mackay was a lovely guy but was also the most vain celebrity he had ever worked with..... funny the things you remember
As if John Noaks wasn't cool enough he drove a Marcos as well.
Beckinsale had 2 big Hollywood roles lined up: Arthur (1981) that made Dudley Moore into a megastar & Charriots of Fire (1981) that won the Best Picture Oscar. Had he lived I'm sure he would have won the Oscar himself & become a #1 Box Office star
Fantastic, thanks for sharing this👍🙂
I'm so glad I found this channel it's full of these nostalgic gems 😭 lol
Used to play in the park behind the studios as a young boy.
Quite superb that was!
Just a minute! I was expecting this classic children's TV program to be a demonstration of how to make that wonderful breakfast dish, and it to explode all over John Nokes, and Val to whipe it off him with a part of her dress soked in warm milk....... Oooohhhh, I may have drunk too much Gripewater again!
Awsome footage
And not a whiff of modern day BBC wokism.
Amazing stuff. Would love to see more of this
if its just air clip from blue Peter show, there must be a unedited versions, but the where very fond of just binning stuff back then, it's surprise we have this clip
@@dh2032 Not so much 'bining' as taping over. Film was expensive. But yes, it's pretty amazing that these clips exist.
Fletcher !!
Richard Beckinsale ❤❤😊😊
Used to love the BBC Club at TFS 😊
Priceless 😀🙌❤️
That was great thanks ;-))
7:18 “do you get an erection from the prison wardens?”…”I’ve had one or two”. My gosh.
lol I totally thought that's what he said
Reaction is the word he used, his accent made it sound ruder
I'm PMSL at that clip. 🤣
Look at the state of Noakes' car!
I always do a double take at 7:18 when I watch this clip
I know what it sounds like but I can't work out what he actually said! Any idea? 😀
@@ozzieparky “do you get any reaction from prison wardens” (I think…I hope!!)🤣
I never knew Shep had a Marcos.
Nice Marcos!
What motor is Noakes driving??
Some serious heavyweights
Is John's car a Marcos ???
Slightly mystified that Sydney Lotterby is directing here, but Dick Clement is credited as director of the Porridge movie. Is this the TV show? Wasn't that shot on videotape?
In this clip, the production team are filming the inserts for the TV series. Once edited, the inserts would be played into the studio recording where the smaller sets (cell interior, governer's office etc) were. For example, when Fletch walked out of his set (in the TV studio), they would run the insert film of eg Fletch walking across the whole prison set. The studio output was recorded onto videotape (2") and later edited to produce the final show for broadcast. If you watch any episodes of the TV series, the change in the nature of the image when cutting from the TV studio to the filmed inserts is very marked.
@@jonbignold4711 I was always fascinated by that choice of using film for exterior work and video tape for the studio work. They look so different on screen when combined together. I guess video tape was mostly confined to the studios as it was costly to use on location back then?
@@johnking5174 Yes, I'd say that's true - electronic capture outside a studio was mainly confined to outside broadcast units which were used for sporting events and major public events. Although there were mobile recorders, these events were usually recorded "down the line" at television centre or at a regional centre. 2" VT recording apperatus was big, expensive and cumersome by today's standards - requiring e.g. compressed air and skilled maintenance. The other very significant factor is that electronic editing was in its infancy. Whilst it was very effective for editing together the parts of an "as live" studio recording, the demands of traditional film editing (reworking a piece over a longer period of time, reordering, adding music and effects etc) were harder to do electronically - and there was already an established workflow from the film world. You may be interested to know that one innovation used in Porridge was the still frame which formed a visual punch line before the credits ran. Creating a still frame was no easy feat. It was achieved using the slow motion replay equipment normally used for sport. There was just one such (video disc) recorder inTelevision Centre, I forget the exact figure but I think it could record about 30 seconds of pictures.
@@jonbignold4711 Fascinating. I had the pleasure of visiting BBC Television Centre a couple of times (before it was torn to pieces into the modern version we have now). Loved the place. Got lost in it a few times, trying to find my way from TC8 to TC1 I remember was one occasion.
John and Shep arrived in a tasty looking white sporty number. Any car experts out there know what car it is?
Stand by your beds and little known for secret services ✔.
5.22.
ronnie sounds so posh compared to his common fletcher character
Ives was doing time for stealing Indiana Jones's Egyptian relic.
Everyone in this clip is now dead.
Now we know where the licence payers money goes......Buying and running a 1970 3.0 Marcos for its presenters!
John Noakes was worth every penny in contrast to the jobsworths of today
@@stephenchappell7512 and to be fair, it was his own personal car. still on the road as well, 68,254 miles at last MOT and only advisory is a minor oil leak.
I’m not sure what they paid John Noakes but by all accounts it was fairly paltry compared with today never mind the ridiculous risks he used to take.
@@nareshchada5117 and it
would have been much more than the camera man taking the same risks. Everyone forgets it wasn't just John taking a risk.