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The prison life of Fletcher, a criminal serving a five-year sentence, as he strives to bide his time, keep his record clean, and refuses to be ground down by the prison system.

Comedy series following the lives of sisters Tracey and Sharon who are left to fend for themselves after their husbands are arrested for armed robbery.

Fletcher is ordered to arrange a prisoner vs celebrity football game, unaware it's a diversion for an escape. Fletcher and cellmate Lennie accidentally discover the plan and must break back into prison to avoid punishment.

"What does H.M.P. stand for? Himalayan Mounted Police? Could equally be Hot Meat Pie, or Honesty, Modesty, and Purity". Well in actual fact it stands for Her Majesty's Prisons, and it is inside where we are a fly on the wall for this film.

Special feature-length edition of the popular TV series. After "minder" Terry McCann does a stretch in prison for getting caught up in one of his boss Arthur Daley's shady deals, their long and turbulent partnership seems to be at an end. But Arthur's dealings with a former army Colonel, Caplan, who is running a "survivalist" centre in suburban England and for whom Arthur is supplying army surplus equipment, reunites the two when they stumble across a plot hatched by Caplan and his "troops" to stage a bullion robbery - the security for which is supervised by their old enemy, former detective sergeant "Charlie" Chisholm.

Godber is looking forward to having his first day outside the prison since he was jailed. As it's a day as a work party, digging a trench, then Fletcher is less enthusiastic about the situation.

Oily convict Harris has stolen some pills but he drops them and they land in Fletch's tea. There's big trouble from Grouty if the pills aren't replaced and, though Barraclough can provide some, they're the wrong size. Eventually replacements are found but in the mean time Fletch ends up swallowing the ones in his tea and learning that they are to cure the governor's dog's bad breath.

Godber is doing his history O Level exam and Fletch means to help him pass by getting Warren to steal the test paper for him, which he does. However, Godber prefers to pass on his own merits and refuses to accept it. Warren spies on him and sees him peep at the paper so that, when Godber finishes the exam and claims to be happy that pass or fail, it will have been all his own work, his two friends are outraged. Godber admits to looking at the paper but denies it helped him, explaining that Warren, who is dyslexic, brought him the biology paper.

Mackay is temporarily away on a promotion course, but Fletch's joy is short-lived when he finds that the replacement is 'Napper' Wainwright, an extremely harsh officer who makes Mackay look like a pussy-cat. To make things worse, Fletch's ally Mr. Barraclough is transferred to the prison farm. A plan is concocted where the cons start a riot in defiance of Wainwright, and Barraclough steps in to defuse the situation. Barraclough is thus seen as a hero, gets his old position back and Wainwright returns to Brixton Prison. As Mackay returns from his course, the prisoners sing 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow'.

Godber is due to see the parole board in a few days where he is almost certain to get a parole. However, the prison troublemaker, a brute named Jarvis, is looking to start a fight with Godber and Godber seems keen to oblige him.

Fletch is in the prison hospital, where an unpleasant con called Norris, shortly to be released, has won the possessions of an elderly prisoner, Blanco. Fletch hatches a plan involving a supposed treasure map which is 'reluctantly' handed over to Norris in exchange for Blanco's things, amongst them a radio. Some days later Fletch and Blanco hear on the radio how Norris, now released, has been arrested for digging for the buried treasure - on a football pitch.

Fletch's stolen tin of pineapple chunks has gone missing and the unlikely culprit is Mr. Barraclough, who took them home pending the opportunity to return them to the kitchen, only to discover his wife using them with a gammon steak. He likes Fletch, as he has been a good listener on his marital problems and says he will replace the tin if Fletch pays for it. Meanwhile, Godber steals another tin for Fletch from the kitchen and its absence is noted by Officer Birchwood, who informs Mackay. When Mackay goes to check, the tin has been surreptitiously replaced by Mr. Barraclough just a few seconds before, causing Warren to think it's a miracle. However, Mackay later finds Godber's "present" on his bed, and Fletch is on his way to the governor.

Fletcher is asked by a fellow prisoner, "Bunny" Warren, to help him read the letters he's receiving from his wife outside. But when Fletcher starts to write Warren's replies for him, many other inmates want Fletcher's literary services.

New Year's Day, and Slade Prison has a new intake of three: old hands Norman Stanley Fletcher and Heslop, along with the young Lennie Godber, experiencing his first time inside.

It's Saturday afternoon and Fletch just wants to be left in peace in his cell but there are constant interruptions - Barraclough coming in for a chat, Mackay showing prison visitors around, Blanco wanting to show off his toy mule and Maclaren wanting to borrow chewing gum. An irate Fletch threatens to throw the next caller over the rails. It's the chaplain and Fletch goes through with his threat. He gets solitary. Bliss. Could they make it three weeks?

Fletch and Godber get a new cell-mate and Fletch is shocked to find it is elderly Judge Rawley, the man who handed him his five year sentence, now convicted of corruption. Though disappointed that Rawley has no dirt to dish on the governor, a friend, Fletch is protective towards him when the other prisoners decry Rawley's privileges. He also tells Rawley that if he had known he was bent he would have offered him a bribe.

When Rawley's watch is stolen the prime suspect is oily toe-rag Harris and so a kangaroo court is set up, presided over by the judge, with Fletch prosecuting and Warren acting as the defending counsel. Without any evidence, Harris is found not guilty, though he then admits to having the watch and relinquishes it. Rawley's appeal against conviction has been successful and he leaves the prison, giving Fletch the watch as a present for being his protector. Unfortunately Harris has taken its workings out.

Fletch and Godber go before the governor for brewing Christmas hooch but the governor has to excuse himself with the runs. His new 'trusty' redband Urwin then pulls a gun, taking Barraclough, Fletch, Godber and the governor's secretary Mrs. Jamieson - who, it is revealed, is having an affair with Barraclough - hostage, though the radio report claims that Fletch and Godber are part of the desperate trio wanting a helicopter to fly them to Mexico. After he has accidentally taken the knock-out drops Barraclough intended for Urwin, Fletch comes to and disarms his captor, talking him into giving himself up. Back in the cell Barraclough tells Fletch that the matter of the hooch will be dropped because of his heroism but Fletch now has something to hold over the screw - Mrs. Jamieson.

When Godber enters the prison boxing tournament, Fletch is under orders from prison 'Daddy', Harry Grout, a con who is more to be feared than the screws, to get him to throw the fight in the second round. Fletch tries to bribe Godber with chocolate, only to be told that Godber has already promised Moffatt, a rival of Grout, that he will lose the fight in the first round. In the event both Godber and his opponent throw the fight in the same round, to the delight of Fletch, the only man in the prison who was betting on a draw.

After his first week inside Slade Prison, Fletcher tries to take advantage of the gambling culture by setting up various bets. But in order to make sure everything goes smoothly, he has to stay a step ahead of the guards and Horrible Ives.

Norman Stanley Fletcher is being escorted to Slade Prison for a five year sentence. Mr. Barrowclough and Mr. Mackay make the journey with him on New Year's Eve, in a play that was spun off into its own successful sitcom, "Porridge".

Lennie Godber is moved into Fletcher's cell after a prison riot, in what is said to be a temporary basis. When Godber tells Fletcher that he's struggling with prison life, Fletcher teaches him how to imagine it as a quiet night in.

Blanco is due to be granted his parole, but when Fletch hears Blanco claim that he was innocent of his wife's murder all along and that her lover killed her, he believes the old man should have a free pardon instead and organizes a petition, forging Mr. Barraclough's signature to add to the list. Eventually, after threats of hunger strikes, the free pardon is granted. However, when Fletch asks what happened to the wife's lover, Blanco replies that he killed him years ago.

A chart-topping episode that sees Fletcher dejected while spending his sixth week in prison. When a fellow prisoner with a history of violence attracts Fletcher's attention, Fletcher decides to help him for both their sakes.

Follows three women from three different prisons as they face the challenges of readjusting to life on the outside.