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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]
| image =
| caption =
| season = 1
| episode = 6
| airdate = {{Start date|1974|10|10|df=yes}}
| production =
| writer = [[Dick Clement]] and [[Ian La Frenais]]
| director = [[Sydney Lotterby]]
| guests =
| episode_list = List of Porridge episodes
| prev = [[Ways and Means (Porridge)|Ways and Means]]
| next = [[Just Desserts (Porridge)|Just Desserts]]
}}
"'''Men Without Women'''" is an episode of the British sitcom ''[[Porridge (1974 TV series)|Porridge]]'', made for the [[BBC]]. It first aired on 10 October 1974,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0676967/|title=Original Air Date (Men Without Women)|date=|work=IMDB|accessdate=30 June 2013}}</ref> and is the final episode of the first series. In this episode, Fletcher offers his services as an 'agony aunt' to his fellow inmates, but later has to return home when he learns he has marital problems.

==Synopsis==
Fellow prisoner Warren visits Fletcher, and asks him to read a letter from his wife due to being [[illiterate]]. Fletcher agrees and discovers that Warren's wife is questioning their marriage. That evening, he composes a response to the letter for Warren to send, and offers a similar service to other prisoners with wives - in the case of Lukewarm, his [[homosexual]] partner - when he speaks to Warren about what he wrote, in exchange for payment in [[tobacco]]. A few days later, Warren brings another letter from his wife for Fletcher to read, and learns that he has nothing to worry. He thus becomes excited to see her in the upcoming visiting day, alongside the others whom Fletcher has been helping.

On visiting day, Fletcher is reunited with his daughter Ingrid, instead of his wife, and learns from her that she has met a new man. Learning of this, the prison governor decides for Fletcher to receive compassionate parole for the weekend, in order to sort out his marital problems. Returning home to [[London]], Fletcher is accompanied by an officer from the local station to ensure no domestic incidents occur, whereupon he celebrates seeing his wife and family after the officer leaves. Fletcher admits that he enjoys them tricking the prison service into giving him a few days out of prison on the grounds of marital issues, in order to savor some of the nicer things one can have on the weekend.

Fletcher swiftly spends his time wisely, watching a [[association football|football]] match, visiting the local [[pub]], having a proper Sunday dinner, and enjoying soft [[toilet paper]]. However, with his time at home nearly up, Fletcher vows to his wife that his current prison sentence will be the last, as he feels like a father figure amongst the other prisoners at his age. Upon returning to Slade Prison that Sunday evening, Fletcher learns that the prisoners he helped have had issues, as their loved ones discovered that they received the same kind of letter, to which Fletcher taunts them to the fact he had spent an enjoyable weekend with his wife. As he relaxes in his cell, Mackay assumes that he has had a change in his attitude since returning when conversing with Barrowclough, only to see him reading a paper in his cell, before removing it from his hand to display a [[V-sign]] to Mackay.

==Episode cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[Ronnie Barker]]
| Norman Stanley Fletcher
|-
| [[Brian Wilde]]
| Mr Barrowclough
|-
| [[Fulton Mackay]]
| Mr Mackay
|-
| [[Sam Kelly]]
| Warren
|-
| [[Brian Glover]]
| Heslop
|-
| [[Michael Barrington]]
| Governor
|-
| [[Christopher Biggins]]
| Lukewarm
|-
| [[Royston Tickner]]
| Sgt. Norris
|-
| Emlyn Price
| Tolly
|-
| [[June Ellis]]
| Isobel Fletcher
|-
| [[Patricia Brake]]
| Ingrid Fletcher
|-
| [[Susan Littler]]
| Norma
|-
| Andonia Katsaros
| Iris
|-
| Rosalind Elliot
| Elaine
|-
| Donald Groves
| Trevor (uncredited)
|-
|}

==References==
<references/>

{{Porridge}}

[[Category:Porridge (1974 TV series) episodes]]
[[Category:1974 British television episodes]]

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