SYNOPSIS

Based on the British comedy series, Porridge, On The Rocks was a situation comedy that revolved around the inmates of Alamesa Minimum Security Prison, a "low-risk" institution apparently run as much by the ones incarcerated there as by the authorities!

The usual setting was the cell containing: Hector Fuentes, the resourceful Latin prisoner; DeMott, his friend; Cleaver, the eternal optimist and Nicky, a juvenile delinquent. In a nearby cell was Gabby, a toothless, elderly inmate.

Mr. Gibson was the hard-nosed corrections officer whose attempts at keeping the inmates in line were often unintentionally thwarted by Mr. Sullivan, a mild-mannered guard.

The show was taped in front of a live audience and originally telecast immediately following TV's leading cop comedy, Barney Miller, which prompted ABC to promote the two show together with the line "funny cops and funny robbers..."