Season 1 - Episode Guide

Veteran inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher gives the benefit of his experience to his green young cellmate Godber.

Fletcher gets a permanent job with the pigs on the prison farm and dreams up a novel way to relieve the boredom of prison life. But when the stakes run high, honour among thieves is sorely tried.

Fletch explains to Godber that the best way to cope with his first night in prison, is to see it as just a "quiet night in". Trouble is, Godber's got another 698 to go.

The rest of the working party are thrilled to have a day out, but Fletch is masking indifference - what's so exciting about digging a ditch anyway?

Who would want to spend eight hours a day sewing fishing nets? Not Fletch, who is hell-bent on a cushy job in the library.

Fletch fancies himself as a bit of an agony aunt and is called upon by his fellow inmates to help out with affairs of the heart.

Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal, and his escorts – soft-hearted Mr. Barrowclough and authoritarian Mr. Mackay - make the journey on New Year's Eve from London up to Slade Prison in Cumberland.

NOTE: This special aired on BBC Two