Channel 4 · Ended

Porterhouse Blue

Comedy · 1987

Last aired: S1 E4, Episode 4 · 1987-06-24

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.

Cast

David Jason Skullion

Ian Richardson Sir Godber Evans

Paul Rogers Dean

John Woodnutt Senior Tutor

Harold Innocent Bursar

Barbara Jefford Lady Mary

Charles Gray Sir Cathcart D'Eath

John Sessions Zipser

Paula Jacobs Mrs. Biggs

Griff Rhys Jones Cornelius Carrington

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 1987-06-03 · 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!

E2 Episode 2 1987-06-10 · 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

E3 Episode 3 1987-06-17 · 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.

E4 Episode 4 1987-06-24 · 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

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