
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1978
- Channel
- BBC One
- Episodes
- 6 (1 series)
- Starring
- Ronnie Barker, Richard Beckinsale, Patricia Brake and Nicholas Lyndhurst
- Writers
- Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
- Director
- Sydney Lotterby
- Producer
- Sydney Lotterby
After four-odd years inside, Norman Stanley Fletcher has made parole. Aided and encouraged by his daughter Ingrid, her boyfriend - Fletch's old cell mate - Lennie Godber, and his teenage son Raymond, Fletch is determined to make it on the straight and narrow.
It's not destined to be easy though. From discovering his old nemesis Mr Mackay on the same train home, to finding and trying to hold down his first 'straight' job, Fletcher faces many trials and temptations on his path to an honest life - not least the departure of his previously loving wife, Isobel. Will he make it, or will the temptation of an easy buck prove too strong?
- Production company
- Soundtrack
- Theme tune written by Tony Macaulay and Dick Clement, and sung by Ronnie Barker.
- Laugh track
- Live audience
Broadcast details
- First broadcast
- Friday 24th February 1978 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Last new broadcast
- Friday 7th April 1978 on BBC One at 8:30pm
- Length of episodes
- 30 minutes
- Last repeat
- Tuesday 29th March 2016 at 11:40am on Gold
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