Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had been set.
It sees Fletcher trying to become an honest member of society, having vowed to stay away from crime on his release. The title refers to this: 'straight' is a slang term meaning being honest, in contrast to 'bent', i.e. dishonest.
Also re-appearing was Richard Beckinsale as Lennie Godber, who had been Fletcher's naïve young cellmate and was now in a relationship with Fletcher's daughter Ingrid (Patricia Brake). Her brother Raymond was played by a teenage Nicholas Lyndhurst.
Only one series, of six episodes, was made in 1978. It attracted an audience of over 15 million viewers and won a BAFTA award in March 1979, but hopes of a further series had already been dashed by Beckinsale's premature death earlier the same month.
The theme tune, sung by Ronnie Barker, detailed Fletch's determination to go straight, an ambition first laid out in the Porridge episode "Men Without Women": This was released as 7-inch single by BBC Enterprises. The B-side is a track called 'The String Bean Queen'.
Going Straight was a New Zealand television reality show by Touchdown Television that aired on TV3 in 2003. The show was hosted by New Zealand actor Manu Bennett, where contestants had to continue moving in a straight line, no matter what the obstacles in the way, to compete for prize money of $NZ 10,000.
The format of the show challenged five contestants, wearing location monitoring equipment, to get to the end of a specified "virtual lane" across a landscape by completing three separate straight-line challenges. Contestants were eliminated each round. There was a $10,000 prize for the winner.
In 2004, an investigation was launched into the programme after a contestant suffered severe burns following a retake of a stunt.
Going Straight is a 1916 American silent crime drama film directed by C.M. Franklin and S.A. Franklin. The film stars Norma Talmadge and is one of the few films featuring her that still exists.
Picked up on suss for looking cute
And thrown into the cells
So don't call us
We won't call you
Alexander Graham Bell
No masterplan for busting out
No file inside a cake
The Candyman can't help you now
Now you're going straight
Baby's going straight
No Whitehall clerks at marble Arch
But it's not political
God knows you left your bleeding heart
When you left Liverpool
Walking the dogs across the heath
Worth your weight in Notting Hill Gate
Giving blow jobs to the jobless
And executives relief
Once or twice a lady
Baby's going straight
Don't close your eyes
If you make a wish
Or you might wind up sleeping with the fish
Or wake up beside a severed pony's head
The only company besides you in your lonely bed