Porridge plot
Norman Stanley Fletcher, better known as Fletch, is sentenced to five years in HM Prison Slade prison in Cumbria and has decided to behave well and not to be noticed. His naive cellmate Lenny Godber takes him under his wing but spends his days gambling and cheating. In addition, Fletcher must deal with the evil jailer Mackay and the much too soft jailer Barrowclough.