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Porterhouse Blue

Channel 4 Ended Comedy

1 Season · 4 Episodes · Premiered October 3, 2017 · Ended June 24, 1987

Porterhouse Blue is a Channel 4 drama based on the novel by Tom Sharpe. It tells the story of Skullion, the Head Porter of a fictional Cambridge college, Porterhouse.For more than 500 years, Porterhouse College has cherished tradition above all else. Unfortunately, its traditions mostly involve decadent banquets, drunkenness, and undistinguished scholarship. Enter Sir Godber Evans, a new master hell-bent on reform. Of course, the dinosaurs on the faculty resist him at every turn. But Head Porter Skullion emerges as Sir Godber's most formidable foe, a self-appointed guardian of Porterhouse's most hallowed traditions, with plenty of tricks up his tweedy sleeve.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

4 episodes
E01
Episode 1
Wed, Jun 3 1987 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
New Master, Sir Godber Evans, an ex-grammar-school boy, failed politician and old Porterhusian, announces a break with six centuries of college tradition: Porterhouse will open its doors to scholars!
E02
Episode 2
Wed, Jun 10 1987 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
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
E03
Episode 3
Wed, Jun 17 1987 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
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.
E04
Episode 4
Wed, Jun 24 1987 8:00 PM GMT+0000 60 min
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

Cast

David Jason
David Jason as Skullion
Ian Richardson
Ian Richardson as Sir Godber Evans
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers as Dean
John Woodnutt
John Woodnutt as Senior Tutor
Harold Innocent
Harold Innocent as Bursar
Barbara Jefford
Barbara Jefford as Lady Mary
Charles Gray
Charles Gray as Sir Cathcart D'Eath
John Sessions
John Sessions as Zipser
Paula Jacobs
Paula Jacobs as Mrs. Biggs
Griff Rhys Jones
Griff Rhys Jones as Cornelius Carrington
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