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{ "se": "S01E01", "title": "Episode #1.1", "tt": 1692685, "air_date": "1987-06-03", "description": "When the master of Porterhouse College,Cambridge dies of a Porterhouse blue,a stroke brought on by excessive living,having rejected all likely candidates to succeed him,the post passes to former Minister of Social Security Sir Godber Evans. This is not a popular choice with the staff,who are snobs,as former student Evans was a grammar school boy. Notably aghast is head porter Skullion,whose ancestors have worked at the college for over five hundred years and who resents the upstart and his pushy wife,Lady Mary. The new master is progressive,intent on overturning centuries old traditions and planning a new,unisex college,named after his wife. Earnest research student Lionel Zipser meets Lady Mary at a feminist lecture but this makes him late returning to college and he accidentally knocks Skullion unconscious climbing over the wall.", "cast": [ { "name": "David Jason", "nm": 419248, "roles": [ { "char": "Skullion", "ch": 249526 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Richardson", "nm": 7183, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Godber Evans", "ch": 236101 } ] }, { "name": "John Sessions", "nm": 785938, "roles": [ { "char": "Zipser", "ch": 301371 } ] }, { "name": "Paul Rogers", "nm": 737121, "roles": [ { "char": "Dean", "ch": 249524 } ] }, { "name": "John Woodnutt", "nm": 940407, "roles": [ { "char": "Senior Tutor" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Innocent", "nm": 409205, "roles": [ { "char": "Bursar" } ] }, { "name": "Paula Jacobs", "nm": 414580, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Biggs" } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Jefford", "nm": 420266, "roles": [ { "char": "Lady Mary" } ] }, { "name": "Ian Wallace", "nm": 908678, "roles": [ { "char": "Praelector" } ] }, { "name": "Willoughby Goddard", "nm": 323851, "roles": [ { "char": "Professor Siblington", "ch": 312915 } ] }, { "name": "Lockwood West", "nm": 922207, "roles": [ { "char": "Chaplain" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Goody", "nm": 329586, "roles": [ { "char": "Walter", "ch": 249525 } ] }, { "name": "John Rogan", "nm": 736580, "roles": [ { "char": "Chef" } ] }, { "name": "Roy Evans", "nm": 263189, "roles": [ { "char": "Arthur" } ] }, { "name": "Tim Preece", "nm": 695784, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Messmer" } ] }, { "name": "Robert Eddison", "nm": 248848, "roles": [ { "char": "Old Master" } ] }, { "name": "Miles Richardson", "nm": 724701, "roles": [ { "char": "Gimingham" } ] }, { "name": "Earl Rhodes", "nm": 722419, "roles": [ { "char": "Foxton" } ] }, { "name": "Charles Millham", "nm": 589615, "roles": [ { "char": "Hearty" } ] }, { "name": "Alice Douglas", "nm": 234934, "roles": [ { "char": "Ruth" } ] }, { "name": "Charu Bala Chokshi", "nm": 158929, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Chukergee" } ] }, { "name": "Jack Hunt School Peterborough", "nm": 3992838, "roles": [ { "char": "Choir" } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E02", "title": "Episode #1.2", "tt": 1692686, "air_date": "1987-06-10", "description": "Despite his disdain for Zipser's studiousness Skullion does not report him but Zipser has another problem - he has the hots for Mrs. Biggs,his chubby,middle-aged cleaner. After a disastrous effort to get condoms in a pub vending machine Zipser goes to the suppliers and ends up with four gross of contraceptives by mistake. Sir Godber learns from the bursar that Porterhouse is broke and,to cut costs, plans to bring in outside caterers and launch an appeal as well as accepting scholarship students of both sexes. An appalled Skullion seeks the help of former student Sir Cathcart De'ath,a loopy aristocrat,to try and stop the master's innovations.", "cast": [ { "name": "David Jason", "nm": 419248, "roles": [ { "char": "Skullion", "ch": 249526 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Richardson", "nm": 7183, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Godber Evans", "ch": 236101 } ] }, { "name": "John Sessions", "nm": 785938, "roles": [ { "char": "Zipser", "ch": 301371 } ] }, { "name": "Charles Gray", "nm": 336509, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Cathcart D'Eath", "ch": 236100 } ] }, { "name": "Paul Rogers", "nm": 737121, "roles": [ { "char": "Dean", "ch": 249524 } ] }, { "name": "John Woodnutt", "nm": 940407, "roles": [ { "char": "Senior Tutor" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Innocent", "nm": 409205, "roles": [ { "char": "Bursar" } ] }, { "name": "Paula Jacobs", "nm": 414580, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Biggs" } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Jefford", "nm": 420266, "roles": [ { "char": "Lady Mary" } ] }, { "name": "Ian Wallace", "nm": 908678, "roles": [ { "char": "Praelector" } ] }, { "name": "Willoughby Goddard", "nm": 323851, "roles": [ { "char": "Professor Siblington", "ch": 312915 } ] }, { "name": "Lockwood West", "nm": 922207, "roles": [ { "char": "Chaplain" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Goody", "nm": 329586, "roles": [ { "char": "Walter", "ch": 249525 } ] }, { "name": "Roy Evans", "nm": 263189, "roles": [ { "char": "Arthur" } ] }, { "name": "Miles Richardson", "nm": 724701, "roles": [ { "char": "Gimingham" } ] }, { "name": "Earl Rhodes", "nm": 722419, "roles": [ { "char": "Foxton" } ] }, { "name": "Charles Millham", "nm": 589615, "roles": [ { "char": "Hearty" } ] }, { "name": "Sophie Thursfield", "nm": 862232, "roles": [ { "char": "Monika" } ] }, { "name": "John Joyce", "nm": 431550, "roles": [ { "char": "Barber" } ] }, { "name": "Mike Savage", "nm": 767348, "roles": [ { "char": "Barman" } ] }, { "name": "David Trevena", "nm": 872366, "roles": [ { "char": "Counterman" } ] }, { "name": "Fred Lee Own", "nm": 654517, "roles": [ { "char": "Japanese Guard", "ch": 249523 } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E03", "title": "Episode #1.3", "tt": 1692687, "air_date": "1987-06-17", "description": "Sir Cathcart introduces the dean to television reporter Cornelius Carrington with a view to making a programme which will vilify Sir Godber as a destroyer of British traditions and win sympathy for the college. Zipser panics when he realises he is stuck with four gross of condoms and blows them up like balloons,sending them up his chimney and into the night,where they cover the college grounds.Skullion sets about bursting them. Mrs. Biggs creeps into Zipser's room for sex,lighting a fire but this causes the condoms lodged in the chimney to explode and they are both killed whilst there are many injured students and much of the college destroyed. Sir Godber is angry with Skullion for not allowing the emergency services in until he has disposed of the contraceptives and at a meeting next day announces his most drastic cost-cutting exercise - large scale redundancies of college staff,starting with Skullion. If the dons do not agree with them he will shame the college by revealing how Mrs. Biggs and Zipser died. Skullion is outraged but he has a trump card - a list of famous ex-students who only succeeded in life because he helped them to cheat in their exams. He is now relying on them to come to his aid in his hour of need.", "cast": [ { "name": "David Jason", "nm": 419248, "roles": [ { "char": "Skullion", "ch": 249526 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Richardson", "nm": 7183, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Godber Evans", "ch": 236101 } ] }, { "name": "John Sessions", "nm": 785938, "roles": [ { "char": "Zipser", "ch": 301371 } ] }, { "name": "Charles Gray", "nm": 336509, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Cathcart D'Eath", "ch": 236100 } ] }, { "name": "Griff Rhys Jones", "nm": 722619, "roles": [ { "char": "Cornelius Carrington", "ch": 236099 } ] }, { "name": "Paul Rogers", "nm": 737121, "roles": [ { "char": "Dean", "ch": 249524 } ] }, { "name": "John Woodnutt", "nm": 940407, "roles": [ { "char": "Senior Tutor" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Innocent", "nm": 409205, "roles": [ { "char": "Bursar" } ] }, { "name": "Paula Jacobs", "nm": 414580, "roles": [ { "char": "Mrs. Biggs" } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Jefford", "nm": 420266, "roles": [ { "char": "Lady Mary" } ] }, { "name": "Ian Wallace", "nm": 908678, "roles": [ { "char": "Praelector" } ] }, { "name": "Willoughby Goddard", "nm": 323851, "roles": [ { "char": "Professor Siblington", "ch": 312915 } ] }, { "name": "Lockwood West", "nm": 922207, "roles": [ { "char": "Chaplain" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Goody", "nm": 329586, "roles": [ { "char": "Walter", "ch": 249525 } ] }, { "name": "John Rogan", "nm": 736580, "roles": [ { "char": "Chef" } ] }, { "name": "Roy Evans", "nm": 263189, "roles": [ { "char": "Arthur" } ] }, { "name": "Tim Preece", "nm": 695784, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Messmer" } ] }, { "name": "Miles Richardson", "nm": 724701, "roles": [ { "char": "Gimingham" } ] }, { "name": "Earl Rhodes", "nm": 722419, "roles": [ { "char": "Foxton" } ] }, { "name": "Charles Millham", "nm": 589615, "roles": [ { "char": "Hearty" } ] }, { "name": "Fred Lee Own", "nm": 654517, "roles": [ { "char": "Japanese Guard", "ch": 249523 } ] } ] }, { "se": "S01E04", "title": "Episode #1.4", "tt": 1692688, "air_date": "1987-06-24", "description": "Cornelius Carrington comes to Porterhouse to make his film but it is an act of revenge for unhappy student days and he distorts the result to make the college seem like a salacious hotbed of sex. Skullion is interviewed live on his television show where he becomes a national hero for exposing the bribery and buying of degrees represented by his list. This plays into Sir Godber's hands as he intends to make all college decisions by himself in future. As the dean takes the list to Sir Cathcart to blackmail several luminaries into defeating Sir Godber,Skullion,who has been left shares now worth half a million pounds by a former master,takes them to Sir Godber to bargain for his job back but in the resultant argument Sir Godber hits his head on a wall. Soon afterwards he dies,mouthing 'Skullion' but the dean assumes he is announcing the name of his successor. Skullion is duly made the new master and the college returns to its old excesses thanks to his money though the shock gives him a Porterhouse blue.", "cast": [ { "name": "David Jason", "nm": 419248, "roles": [ { "char": "Skullion", "ch": 249526 } ] }, { "name": "Ian Richardson", "nm": 7183, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Godber Evans", "ch": 236101 } ] }, { "name": "Charles Gray", "nm": 336509, "roles": [ { "char": "Sir Cathcart D'Eath", "ch": 236100 } ] }, { "name": "Griff Rhys Jones", "nm": 722619, "roles": [ { "char": "Cornelius Carrington", "ch": 236099 } ] }, { "name": "Paul Rogers", "nm": 737121, "roles": [ { "char": "Dean", "ch": 249524 } ] }, { "name": "John Woodnutt", "nm": 940407, "roles": [ { "char": "Senior Tutor" } ] }, { "name": "Harold Innocent", "nm": 409205, "roles": [ { "char": "Bursar" } ] }, { "name": "Barbara Jefford", "nm": 420266, "roles": [ { "char": "Lady Mary" } ] }, { "name": "Ian Wallace", "nm": 908678, "roles": [ { "char": "Praelector" } ] }, { "name": "Willoughby Goddard", "nm": 323851, "roles": [ { "char": "Professor Siblington", "ch": 312915 } ] }, { "name": "Lockwood West", "nm": 922207, "roles": [ { "char": "Chaplain" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Goody", "nm": 329586, "roles": [ { "char": "Walter", "ch": 249525 } ] }, { "name": "John Rogan", "nm": 736580, "roles": [ { "char": "Chef" } ] }, { "name": "Roy Evans", "nm": 263189, "roles": [ { "char": "Arthur" } ] }, { "name": "Tim Preece", "nm": 695784, "roles": [ { "char": "Dr. Messmer" } ] }, { "name": "Roland MacLeod", "nm": 533929, "roles": [ { "char": "Bank Manager" } ] }, { "name": "Kitty Aldridge", "nm": 17733, "roles": [ { "char": "Serena" } ] }, { "name": "Bob Carlton", "nm": 138175, "roles": [ { "char": "TV Director" } ] }, { "name": "Fred Lee Own", "nm": 654517, "roles": [ { "char": "Japanese Guard", "ch": 249523 } ] } ] }
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