Porterhouse Blue (Episode 1)
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- 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.
RIP Ian Richardson... a gentleman, a true Scot and one of the worlds great actors, very much missed.
Porterhouse blue along with Blott on the Landscape are an almost unique taste in brilliant dry satirical comedy. I hope Tom Sharpe, the author, is never forgotten.
I've been trying to get Blott, on CZcams..I do have the DVD, but so far, it's never been shown on here..R.I.P. Tom Sharpe...
@@davidhoward2487 I recall one scene in Blott, which cracked me up, was where Geraldine James, estranged from her husband (George Cole) converted the estate to a Safari Park. She was holding a meeting when George Cole scaled the fence. She went to the window and said, "Oh look the lions have got my husband.". She then calmly sat down again and resumed the meeting.
@@malcolmabram2957 British aplomb!...The whole was a sheer delight! I liked the mysterious guerrilla Blott...another stellar performance by David Suchet...lol
For me The Throwback was the funnest book I ever read.
Born there, worked there (in colleges), and studied there. Everything about this is absolutely spot-on - on both sides of the coin.
Tom Sharpe - equally critical of the Conservative right and the radical Left that wanted to replace it. Wonder whar he thinks of England now?
Ian Richardson deserves a BAFTA nod for this programme.
I love Scullion as a character and David Jasón does a wonderful job of portraying him and his reading of the novel is nothing short of genius !
There's a grain of truth in every comedy. That is certainly true of Porterhouse Blue, which ridicules the fairly common practice of selling degrees. Universities do not overtly do this, but I was aware, when I was at university in the 1970s, how it was fairly common practice to pay a brilliant research student to sit your final exams for, say, a thousand pounds. I would contend that a lot of people did, indeed, have a most unusual education and of course that does explain why the UK is in such a mess.
Lots of US athletes get papers, and exams done by others. Sad. Look at the NFL.
Thank you Tom Sharpe.
Good morning from Portugal! I am 47 and I saw this on TV in 1990/1991. Thank you very much! Muito obrigado!!!
Porterhouse Blue is brilliant especially because it has got the brilliant Sir David Jason in it. Everybody should watch it.
One of the best things to come from channel 4
An excellent series. Shows a side of English life that is sadly real but in a very funny way. Tom Sharpe is pure genius. I would love an audio book of both The Gropes and The Wilt Inheritance IF anyone knows or have them.
Master dies in his own bed or not at all lmao so funny really does get me every time thank you so much for posting a real treat
Watched this first time round and enjoyed it tremendously. Absolutely brilliant acting all-round and wonderful script.
Living in Cambridge I think Tom Sharpe has the place bang to rigjhts! This serialised version of his book is the icing on the cake. David Jason was a superb choice as Scullion!
Tom Sharpe books have always been spot on! And the casting of David Jason as Skullion is pure genius! Ian Richardson too as the villain!
Never heard of this. Looking forward to watching
When this was first show i couldn't wait to watch the next episode.
The best series about our universities EVER made! "Wilt" was good too, based on another Tom Sharpe book!
@Mahdokt Walter I have read and seen the drama of Blott on the Landscape, and Wilt on High. I have not heard of The Throwback though.
I think 'The History Man' by Malcolm Bradbury, also made into a TV series, is good too. Oddly enough Mr Bradbury wrote the screenplay for 'Porterhouse Blue.'
@@Londonfogey Yes it was, and it too was excellent!
Never saw this before, though I've been a big fan of Only Fools and Horses for years. What a brilliant send-up of British pomposity!
Thanks for posting.
Masterpiece of dark comedy! Love it!
A sensational series.
Gentleman be at the races. Corrupt little man scullion who sold exams,,, brilliantly played by sir david. Loved watching it at age of 14 when it first ran.
Yes indeed a crook, a sneak and a blackmailer who revealed his true nature in the condoms in the court scene when he refused to help the emergency services get to the victims of the explosion because all he cared about was protecting his twisted idea of the college's reputation
@HampsteadOwl I bet he would have voted to leave the EU. 😂😂
...my good old Cantab days....Cherishing them until the last day of my life....
I watched it first time round and loved it including the latin and music (why do we dumb things down so much today) and love it today too.
David Jason was born to play Skullion, even more than Del Boy!
This is most splendid stuff.
We love you Tom Sharpe!
Left-field interpretation but Scullion is a tragic figure in more ways than the way that the series ends (no spoilers!): he is betrayed by all the 'gentlemen' that he has had such a high opinion of through life, and is reduced to begging for his job from the master he hates the most.
David Jason is excellent in this classic programme
Best English literature I laughed till the tears ran down.
This series and the book are fantastic! David Jason excels.
Our Alma mater. Seems like only yesterday we were all there!
They had a way to avoid all this, but they couldn't foresee the eventuality.
Very nice cinematography for the time. This looks like it was shot on 16mm . I hope a HD restoration would be possible.
The actor Robert Eddison plays the old Master in "Porterhouse Blue" Episode 1 and the Knight of the Holy Grail in "Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail". Bit of a shift. I wish the Producers had provided subtitles for the lines in Latin. Besideswhichall, I can imagine the Series consisting of 13, 55 Minute Episodes Per Annum for ten years...
look how old fashioned educationn was back only 30 years or so ago... the world has changed more in the last 30 years than it has in all of human history
An interesting hypothesis. But I would suggest that the period 1900 to 1930 would be more bewildering for someone jumping through time.
@@capitalb5889 great point.
@@dickiegreenleaf750 although on reflection I might change that to 1910 to 1940.
The original novel was set in 1970-71, the TV adaptation was set contemporarily (1986). The update didn't work 100% but still a great TV serial.
This is like the absolute opposite of Hardwicke House !! the 80s were interesting
Lovely theme, excellently sung. Could do with English-language subtitles, though.
Another British tv good cast comedy
I can imagine they must of had a good laugh making this although I've always seen David Jason as serious actor. They must of had a hard time keeping a straight face at times.
@Cliff HanleyThe TV series aired in 1987 the book was published in 1974.
Please! This is a decent college where they talk proper! It’s “would have” not “would of”. Where “would’ve” sounds like “would of” but IS NOT Sir! Please commit to a continuing acquaintanceship, and ongoing happy working relationship, with “would have”.
@@josephinebennington7247 yes ffs....all illiterate gumbies take note!
"Porterhouse Blue" Episode 1 shows the Senior Fellows attempting to elect a new Master. Nine Fellows are present yet we see ten balls...
Didn't you hear the Chaplain say he voted twice?
This book accurately predicted the Blairite takeover of traditional British institutions at least a decade before it happened.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nice surprise..
I have never seen it before..
What year was this?
1987
The blessed times of libraries, books and typewriters. Now defunct.
P.S. Those swans are simply appalling, in the worst taste, to say nothing of those animal carcasses. Disgusting..
This is just creepy and weird-- sums up the cloistered university life exactly.
Ienyol veryh welll
Tom Sharpe - the master of farce
Prediction for future pronoun changes at 20’38’’. They knew it would come eventually.
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