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Porterhouse Blue

19871 Season60m episodes7.2

Comedy

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: TV-MA
Origin: GB

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Cambridge, Great Britain, 1980s. When the headmaster of Porterhouse College dies without naming a successor, the government appoints a former graduate whose ideas clash with the extreme conservatism that reigns at the institution.

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Director: Robert Knights
Writing: Malcolm Bradbury
Status: Ended
First aired: Jun 3, 1987
Network: Channel 4
Studio: Picture Partnership, Channel 4 Television

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4 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

Ian Richardson

Sir Godber Evans

David Jason

Skullion

Paul Rogers

Dean

John Woodnutt

Senior Tutor

Harold Innocent

Bursar

Barbara Jefford

Lady Mary

John Sessions

Zipser

Charles Gray

Sir Cathcart D'Eath

Miles Richardson

Gimingham

Griff Rhys Jones

Cornelius Carrington

SERIES

Porterhouse Blue

19871 Season60m episodes7.2

Comedy

TMDB7.2

Votes14

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Comedy
Certificate: TV-MA
Origin: GB

About

Where to watch

Region

With ads

Tubi TV

Buy

Amazon Video

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Jun 3, 1987 · 1h 0m
Episode 1
The dying Master of Porterhouse succumbs to a Porterhouse Blue - a stroke brought on by over-indulgence. In his place comes a new Master, Sir Godber Evans, an ex-grammar-school boy, failed politician and old Porterhusian, who chooses the occasion of the annual great feast to announce a major break with six centuries of college tradition: Porterhouse will open its doors to scholars!
E2 · Airs Jun 10, 1987 · 1h 0m
Episode 2
The Dean mounts an attack to counter the new master, Sir Godber Evans, who continues with his attempt to drag the college into the modern world. Meanwhile, Skullion finds an ally in old Porterhusian Sir Cathcart D'Eath, and Zipser seeks 'confidential' counselling with the Chaplain about his obsession with the buxom bedder Mrs Biggs, which is getting out of control.
E3 · Airs Jun 17, 1987 · 1h 0m
Episode 3
The new Master, Sir Godber, is in self-congratulatory mood. His plans to impose change on Porterhouse appear to have the College's traditionalist Fellows over a barrel. In response, the Dean and Sir Cathcart D'Eath bring in investigative journalist and former Porterhouse student Cornelius Carrington to help fight their corner.
E4 · Airs Jun 24, 1987 · 1h 0m
Episode 4
With a view to ending the new Master's regime, the Dean and Sir Cathcart D'Eath encourage television journalist Cornelius Carrington to make a documentary about the College. They haven't reckoned on Carrington's methods, or on Skullion's gift for 'television verite'. And nobody - not even Skullion himself - has reckoned on the head porter achieving an indelible place in the history of Porterhouse.

Details

Director: Robert Knights
Writing: Malcolm Bradbury
Status: Ended
First aired: Jun 3, 1987
Network: Channel 4
Studio: Picture Partnership, Channel 4 Television

Time to finish

4 hrs

4 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Ian Richardson

Sir Godber Evans

David Jason

Skullion

Paul Rogers

Dean

John Woodnutt

Senior Tutor

Harold Innocent

Bursar

Barbara Jefford

Lady Mary

John Sessions

Zipser

Charles Gray

Sir Cathcart D'Eath

Miles Richardson

Gimingham

Griff Rhys Jones

Cornelius Carrington

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