Porterhouse blue season 1 episode 3 rotten tomatoes. Buy, rent porterhouse blue, season 1 episode 3, is available to watch and stream on acorn tv. The disaster eventually leads to the dismissal of skullion, who vows ominously that a lot of very famous people are going to be in a lot of trouble. With david jason, ian richardson, paul rogers, john woodnutt. Swiss blue topaz, sky blue topaz, and london blue topaz. Porterhouse blue series and episode guides tv from. Buy, rent porterhouse blue, season 1 episode 4, is available to watch and stream on acorn tv. David jason, ian richardson and griff rhys jones head a distinguished cast in malcolm bradburys fourpart adaptation of tom sharpes comic novel. Porterhouse blue season 1 episode 4 episode 4 yidio. Unfortunately, its traditions mostly involve decadent. Porterhouse blue is a 1987 television series adapted by malcolm bradbury from the tom sharpe novel of the same name for channel 4 in four episodes. She ignores his protests, but causes an explosion from the unknowingly blocked chimney. The porterhouse college in this story is a very minor one at the university so quite low in prestige, and very short of money.
Porterhouse blue is a novel written by tom sharpe, first published in 1974. Find out when porterhouse blue is on tv, including series 1episode 3. Vocal loops, vocal samples, vocal acapella edm acapellas. Jan 12, 2016 this is the fulllength version of the original tv theme song to the channel 4 tv series porterhouse blue, performed by the flying pickets. His plans to impose change on porterhouse appear to have the colleges traditionalist fellows over a barrel. Im watching the third episode and im impressed by the acting and social satire.
Watch porterhouse blue episode 4 s1 e4 online watch online anytime. Cookies websites use cookies that have been placed on this site by its operator. Then he scours the towns pubs for protectives and return with far more than he bargained for. Watch worldclass tv from britain and beyond always available, always commercial. Porterhouse blue episode 3 after this, theres golf, with the 1987 us open. Episode 1 new master, sir godber evans, an exgrammarschool boy, failed politician and old porterhusian, announces a break with six centuries of college tradition. Porterhouse blue season 1 episode 2 rotten tomatoes. Trying to scotch sir godbers radical proposals, skullion visits sir cathcart death, an influential alumnus, for advice. Zipsers increasingly frenzied attempts to dispose of his lode of prophylatics end in explosive tragedy. Watch porterhouse blue episode 3 s1 e3 online watch online anytime. It starred david jason as skullion, ian richardson as sir godber evans, barbara jefford as his wife lady mary, charles gray as sir cathcart death, and john sessions as zipser. You can also buy, rent porterhouse blue on demand at amazon prime online.
Feb 08, 2019 despite his disdain for zipsers studiousness skullion does not report him but zipser has another problem he has the hots for mrs. Original release, 3 june 19870603 24 june 1987 19870624. Porterhouse blue is a scurrilous satire on the upperclass elitism of oxbridge universities and their perceived. His plans to impose change on porterhouse appear to have the. Watch worldclass tv from britain and beyond always available, always commercial free. Flying pickets porterhouse blue original tv theme duration. Nosferatu the vampyr porterhouse blue tape 301 vhistory. For more than 500 years, porterhouse college has cherished tradition above all else. In his place comes a new master, sir godber evans, an exgrammarschool 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. Sir godber and scullion clash over the consequences. Porterhouse blue series and episode guides tv from radiotimes. The new master, sir godber, is in selfcongratulatory mood. Porterhouse blue is a 1987 television series adapted by malcolm bradbury from the tom. Watch worldclass tv from britain and beyond always available, always commercial free start your free trial watch trailer.
Our ep is a mastering session, a music video and a single away from being released. Despite his disdain for zipsers studiousness skullion does not report him but zipser has another problem he has the hots for mrs. 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. New master, sir godber evans, an exgrammarschool boy, failed politician and old porterhusian, announces a break with six centuries of college tradition. Watch porterhouse blue season 1 episode 3 episode 3 online now. 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. A satirical look at cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform, porterhouse blue tells the story of skullion, the head porter of porterhouse, a fictional college of cambridge university. Porterhouse college a fictional part of cambridge university has lost another master to a porterhouse blue, a stroke induced by the colleges legendary excess in food and drink. Stay in touch with porterhouse blue next episode air date and your favorite tv shows. Social satire on life on cambridge college from the headmaster to the students and even one memorable bedder. Based on tom sharpes uproarious bestseller, this biting satire of a british institution crackles with dry wit. The dying master of porterhouse succumbs to a porterhouse blue a stroke brought on by overindulgence.
Selling admissions, the black tie dinners, the power or the porters, etc. Nonlatin speakers can usually make out the college motto dives in omniawhich is a plot point, so theyre sure to get it by about the third episode but not the rest of the lyrics which tell the congregation that the college is staffed by ignorant drunks. Watch worldclass tv from britain and beyond always available, always commercial free start your free trial. Episode 3 the new master, sir godber, is in selfcongratulatory mood. The depiction of university life certainly was unfortunately quite true some years ago, but less so now. In late80s britain, porterhouse college cambridge is an anachronism, its students uniformly male and in the vast number of cases privately educated. With david jason, ian richardson, john sessions, charles gray. Nov 22, 2015 and you can watch the episode on all4. But the newly appointed master, sir godber evans ian richardson, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy, is a former porterhouse student with a dim view of its traditions.
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