For the TV series based on the novel, see Porterhouse Blue (TV series).
Porterhouse Blue
First edition
Author
Tom Sharpe
Language
English
Publisher
Secker & Warburg
Publication date
1974
Publication place
United Kingdom
ISBN
0-330-24667-4
Followed by
Grantchester Grind
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, Porterhouse Blue tells the story of Skullion, the Head Porter of Porterhouse, a fictional college of Cambridge University.
The novel has a sequel, Grantchester Grind. In 1987, Channel 4 adapted Porterhouse Blue into a TV series of the same name.
PorterhouseBlue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974. A satirical look at Cambridge life and the struggle between tradition and reform...
English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as PorterhouseBlue and Blott on the Landscape, all three of which were adapted for television...
a steakhouse in New York City Porterhouse steak Porterhouse, a fictional Cambridge college in the novel PorterhouseBlue by Tom Sharpe This disambiguation...
central character in PorterhouseBlue (1974) and Grantchester Grind (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by...
earned acclaim for a string of serious roles. These include Skullion in PorterhouseBlue (for Channel 4), Sidney "Pop" Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling...
character in PorterhouseBlue (1974) and, posthumously, Grantchester Grind (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge...
the title song (in Latin, Dives in Omnia) and endtitles reprise to PorterhouseBlue, in the style of a medieval university drinking-song. The group sang...
favourite. In 1987 he played Lionel Zipser in Channel 4's mini-series PorterhouseBlue. In 1989, he starred in his own one-man TV show, John Sessions. Filmed...
Private Schulz and as Sir Godber Evans in Channel 4's adaptation of PorterhouseBlue. Richardson also performed the role of Sherlock Holmes for two of six...
the story of the fictitious Porterhouse College, Cambridge, started in the previous book, PorterhouseBlue. Porterhouse is a college which had an incident...
Shadow of the Tower (1972), The Pallisers (1974), I, Claudius (1976), PorterhouseBlue (1987) and posthumously in Specials (1991). He portrayed King Edward...
Year Title Role Notes 1987 PorterhouseBlue Serena "1.4" 1988 The Management Kitty "The Wedding" 1989 The Paradise Club DI Rosy Campbell Main role (series...
Crown Court, The Professionals, Minder, Inspector Morse, the Bursar in PorterhouseBlue, EastEnders and as Lord Robert "Bunchy" Gospell in episode 6 ("Death...
entirely on location Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – exterior of the home PorterhouseBlue (1987) – interior and exterior of the home of Sir Cathcart D'Eath The...
the adaptations of Tom Sharpe's novels Blott on the Landscape and PorterhouseBlue. In 2004, the BBC's former Head of Drama Commissioning Gareth Neame...
Stalky & Co., and The Pickwick Papers. He played the Senior Tutor in PorterhouseBlue and also appeared briefly in the comedy sketch show Paul Merton: The...
it is located somewhere between Magdalene and St John's. Porterhouse College, PorterhouseBlue and Grantchester Grind by Tom Sharpe. The name suggests...
resolve to uphold the 'honour' of Piemburg and apartheid. "Tom Sharpe, PorterhouseBlue novelist, dies aged 85". BBC News. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013...
introduced in 1928 by Julius Fromm's company.[citation needed] In the novel PorterhouseBlue, conflict over an attempt to introduce such a device to a Cambridge...
the Cambridge University based historical comedy television series PorterhouseBlue (1987).[citation needed] In the 1990s Rhodes abandoned professional...
and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe's Blott on the Landscape and PorterhouseBlue, Alison Lurie's Imaginary Friends, Kingsley Amis's The Green Man, and...
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