"A Test of Character" is an episode of the BBC sitcom Porridge, Porridge is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to what year?
Porridge (TV series) Porridge is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled "Porridge" (released under the title "Doing Time" in the United States). 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 British prisons.
Picture Page Picture Page is a British television programme, broadcast by the BBC Television Service (now known as BBC One) from 1936 to 1939, and again after the service's hiatus during the Second World War from 1946 until 1952. It was the first British television series to become a long-term and regular popular success.