The series was a big ratings hit for the BBC, winning a BAFTA for best comedy series and a second season was planned. However, the sudden death of Richard Beckinsale in 1979 at the age of thirty-one resulted in the permanent cancellation of those plans.
The establishment where Fletch is hired as night porter, the Hotel Dolphin, is sited in Sussex Gardens, Bayswater.
Ronnie Barker plays Patricia Brake's father despite only being 13 years older than her in real life.
Fletcher is forty-five-years-old.
"Marion", Fletcher's middle daughter (mentioned several times in Porridge) does not appear at all in this series but "'Raymond" his teenage son (played by a young Nicholas Lyndhurst) does feature briefly in several episodes.