From the outset it broke the mould of british comedy. Sep 10, 2016 bbc lost sitcoms season brings back a classic steptoe and son episode a classic steptoe and son episode is brought back to life in a oneoff special this week, as part of bbcs lost sitcoms season. Steptoe and son as the series was to be called ran for eight series, and it just got better and better some of the best episodes come to mind, the piano where a customer tries to get harold. A sequel, steptoe and son ride again, was released the following year. Disaster looms when restless rag and bone man harold steptoe decides to get married against his fathers wishes. Steptoe and son was a bbc tv sitcom series written by ray galton and alan simpson. When the complete box set of that show was released, i found out albert and herbert was based on an english show called steptoe and son, and i got really curious. Could it be full house, where harold tries to play poker. The classic bbc sitcom about a fatherandson rag and bone team. Series 14 were produced in black and white, and series 58 in colour. Four series were broadcast by the bbc from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Steptoe and son fanfiction archive with over 8 stories. Rent steptoe and son steptoe and son ride again 1973 starring wilfrid brambell and harry h.
Steptoe and son is a 1972 british comedy drama film and a spinoff from the popular british television comedy series of the same name about father and son rag and bone dealers. Wilfred brambell stars in the fred sanford role as an irascible cockney junk dealer. Although it was a comedy show, actors were hired to play the two main roles, rather than comedians as had been the norm in other bbc comedies. Rent steptoe and son steptoe and son ride again 1973. Steptoe and son forum view topic ive got the radio series.
Harold believes they need someone to defend them like in that film the seven. Steptoe and son christmas 73, full version youtube. At its peak, the show was watched by more than 28 million. Corbett, wilfrid brambell, henry woolf, bill weston. Corbett and wilfred brambell, adapted from the muchloved tv series. Greatest episode of steptoe and son british comedy guide. Harold the son wants to better himself but his father always seems to ruin things, sometimes accidentally and other times deliberately. Steptoe and son ride again 1974associated londonmgmemi 98 minutes the steptoes lack of success with a shortsighted greyhound causes them to stage an insurance swindle by pretending albert has passed on. The intertwined fates of these two rag and bone men became one of the greatest situation comedies british television has ever produced.
Steptoe and son s finest half hour, featuring as a oneoff episode in the bbcs thennew anthology series comedy playhouse. Big screen version of galton and simpsons classic sitcom. First look at the remake of steptoe and son as bbc revives. Newspaper discussion compared it to the likes of chekov, and while all ten playhouse episodes were written by ray galton and alan simpson, it was only the bleak, strikingly different steptoe and son which was seen by the. The ideas seem tired and weak, corbetts performance is now so completely over the top that he even breaks the fourth wall, and many of the dialogue sequences stray into repetition. Radio 4 comedy series john finnemores souvenir programme and. All episodes were originally shown on what is now known as bbc one, although the station was simply called bbc television until april 1964 when bbc2 began broadcasting between the third and fourth series. Engine shed went on to adapt and perform the two christmas specials later that year. Mar 12, 2020 classic british comedy, produced by the bbc and broadcast between 1962, 63, 64, 65, 70, 72, 73, 74. Steptoe and son ran from 1962 to 1974 and starred corbett and his screen dad, actor wilfrid brambell, who died in 1985 aged 72. Watch steptoe and son season 1, episode 5 the diploma. This movie was the british tv precursor to the american sitcom sanford and son. Bbc radio 2 and bbc light programme sitcom about a father and son.
Add the shows you like to a watchlist and let the site take it from there. Men of letters, robbery with violence and seance in a wet rag and bone yard. Steptoe and son is a british sitcom written by ray galton and alan simpson about a fatherandson. Steptoe and son ran for eight series on bbc tv and even spawned two feature films. Albert steptoe and his son harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. Bbc lost sitcoms season brings back a classic steptoe and son. After creating the supreme comedy that was hancocks half hour, many wondered where else writers ray galton and alan simpson could go when the eponymous mr h dispensed with their services. Such was the series popularity in the mid1960s that. I constantly put off buying the boxset i have a best of dvd somewhere but think it will be my next purchase. Steptoe and son is a british sitcom written by ray galton and alan simpson about a father and son rag and bone business.
As steptoe and son gets a reboot, harry h corbetts. May 08, 2020 a guide listing the titles and air dates for episodes of the tv series steptoe and son. The duo was also proving popular on the television sets at buckingham palace and on november 4th 1963 brambell and corbett performed a. Page 3 of a message board thread about greatest episode of steptoe and son in bcgs sitcoms forum. Color color identifier steptoeandsons1xe1thebird scanner internet archive html5 uploader 1. This is an episode list of the british sitcom steptoe and son. Albert is distraught and loses all interest in the business, until the new horse seems to fall ill. Here are episodes ive got handily available for download. Steptoe and son is a 1972 british comedy drama film and a spinoff from the popular british television comedy series of the same name about fatherandson ragandbone dealers. This is the first look at the bbc s modern remakes of classic sitcoms steptoe and son, hancocks half hour and till death us do part in the resurrected steptoe and son, rag and bone man. Bbc y ou cant go five minutes these days without tripping over an old episode of dads army or morecambe and wise. I constantly put off buying the boxset i have a best of dvd.
Steptoe and son the seven steptoerai tv episode 1974. Series 1 and 2 of the hilarious radio sitcom starring harry h. You can subscribe and watch other episodes steptoe and son uploaded a video 3 years ago. By the end of the second series steptoe and son was attracting an audience of some 22 million people in britain alone, and viewers around the world were soon clamoring for each new chapter of the steptoe saga. Steptoe and son remains one of the greatest of british sitcoms, and only really had two principal characters, both grumpy rag and bone men one old, one young, and one a father and one a son.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Steptoe and son decide to go to the movies, but are split over which film to see. They live at oil drum lane, a fictional street in shepherds bush, london. Bbc lost sitcoms season brings back a classic steptoe and. Steptoe and son 1972 mgmemi 98 minutes harolds marriage to a stripper is not made easier by the old man who insists on joining them on the honeymoon. When steptoe and son complete and specials arrived and i started to look at the show, i was amazed how similar the episodes were from the swedish version. Local gangster frankie barrow is running a protection racket and demands money from the steptoes. Steptoe and sons finest half hour, featuring as a oneoff episode in the bbcs thennew anthology series comedy playhouse. Steptoe and son s01 e04 the stepmother steptoe and son s01 e05 the economist steptoe. Steptoe and son s8e5 upstairs, downstairs, upstairs. With the lease on their house about to run out steptoe and son visit their local bank manager to arrange a loan and overdraft facilities. Unfortunately it turns out that harold is not the father after all, another partygoer called george is, and he asks harold to be best man at his wedding to. A magnificent sitcom, even the episodes from the 1960s, which is an era of comedy im not keen on. Although it was a comedy show, actors were hired to play the two main roles, rather than comedians as.
Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film. Wilfrid brambell played the selfish, manipulative father, albert steptoe, evincing violins of sympathy whenever pretentious son harold, played by harry h. Harold cant remember, but is delighted to claim responsibility. Harold cancels the trip and decides to hold a party instead. Steptoe and son is a british sitcom written by ray galton and alan simpson about two rag and bone men living in oil drum lane, a fictional. Steptoe and son s02 e08 crossed swords some of the other episodes i found via torrents. As this doesnt seem to be posted here anywhere, i thought id share with others. Disaster looms when restless ragandbone man harold steptoe decides to get married against his fathers wishes. Do you have a favourite episode of steptoe and son. Harold decides to get out of the rag and bone trade, and get a diploma in t v repair, only for albert to prove that he k. He is quite agreeable but insists they wine and dine him and his wife at an expensive local restaurant.
Vote for your favourite episode of steptoe and son. Steptoe was born from a oneoff comic play, the offer commissioned by the bbc in 1962 as part of comedy playhouse, a series of short plays all. Steptoe and son and son a young lady, eight months pregnant, arrives on the doorstep in the belief that harold is the father of her child conceived at a party the year before. Bbc lost sitcoms season brings back a classic steptoe and son episode a classic steptoe and son episode is brought back to life in a oneoff. But harold warms to the idea of being a father and albert becomes proud for his son. One of the very best, but theres so many good episodes. Steptoe and son season 5 episode 1 a death in the family. Harold books a christmas holiday to majorca for himself, causing albert to fall mysteriously ill. Jack lane played albert steptoe and michael simmonds played harold. Steptoe and son is a british sitcom written by ray galton and alan simpson about a fatherandson ragandbone business. Some were very very poor quality, or had bits missing.
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