The episode Heartbreak Hotel from the second season of Porridge aired 48 years ago tonight; this has always been one of my all-time favorite shots from any sitcom. The cut to all the guys staring at Fletch's daughter, in particular Richard Beckinsale's perfectly dead eyes, is absolute comedy perfection and should hang from the Sitcom Hall of Fame rafters. How they got through this scene without having to do it a hundred times from cracking up is beyond me.
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