Porterhouse Blue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974. A satirical look at Cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform...
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Porterhouse Blue is a 1987 television comedy series adapted by Malcolm Bradbury from the 1974 Tom Sharpe novel of the same name for Channel 4 in four episodes...
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Tom Sharpe (section Porterhouse Blue series)
English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, all three of which were adapted for television...
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a steakhouse in New York City Porterhouse steak Porterhouse, a fictional Cambridge college in the novel Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe This disambiguation...
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Skullion (section Head porter of Porterhouse College)
central character in Porterhouse Blue (1974) and Grantchester Grind (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by...
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earned acclaim for a string of serious roles. These include Skullion in Porterhouse Blue (for Channel 4), Sidney "Pop" Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling...
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favourite. In 1987 he played Lionel Zipser in Channel 4's mini-series Porterhouse Blue. In 1989, he starred in his own one-man TV show, John Sessions. Filmed...
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manager or assistant director on TV shows such as Inspector Morse and Porterhouse Blue. Working his way up through the grades, he became a line producer and...
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Porterhouse Blue: (Porterhouse Blue Series 1). Random House. ISBNÂ 9781446474655. Sharpe, Tom (8 June 2011). Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series...
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the title song (in Latin, Dives in Omnia) and endtitles reprise to Porterhouse Blue, in the style of a medieval university drinking-song. The group sang...
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