Alan Simpson
- English
- Writer
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Steptoe and Sons: tears of TV's finest clowns
The story behind the comedy great.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 14th September 2016TV preview: Lost Sitcoms - Hancock's Half Hour, BBC4
Stone me this is good. I was a little bit worried about this TV recreation of a lost Hancock episode because last week's Alf Garnett reboot was so disappointing. But there is no problem here. A combination of excellent casting and excellent writing makes this easily as funny as most contemporary sitcoms.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 7th September 2016New exhibit shows archive pictures of BBC comedians
Compton Verney exhibition charts 60 years of comedy, from Hancock's Half Hour to Miranda Hart.
Mark Brown, The Guardian, 26th June 2016BAFTA TV Award Winners 2016
Michaela Coel, Peter Kay, Leigh Francis, Have I Got News For You and Car Share have won at the BAFTA Television Awards 2016. Meanwhile Galton & Simpson and Lenny Henry picked up special prizes.
British Comedy Guide, 8th May 20165 ways Steptoe & Son changed TV comedy
Galton and Simpson will be honoured with the Fellowship at the British Academy Television Awards at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Sunday 8 May. Here, Catherine Bray looks at how the sitcom has influenced TV comedies since the Sixties.
Catherine Bray, The Telegraph, 5th May 2016Galton & Simpson get BAFTA Fellowship
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, writers of Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son, are to be awarded a BAFTA Fellowship on Sunday.
British Comedy Guide, 5th May 2016The Sunday Post: Galton and Simpson
The BBC's Genome Blog looks at the writing careers of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Andrew Martin, BBC, 27th September 2015Galton & Simpson - Our favourite Hancock: Part 1
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are presenting a very special series of posts, in which they share their personal favourite episodes from their work on TV and Radio with Tony Hancock.
British Classic Comedy, 10th November 2014Galton and Simpson's 60th anniversary interview, part 1
Over the next few days, as we get closer to that all important anniversary, scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson join us to discuss their most famous works.
British Classic Comedy, 31st October 2014Battle of the first sitcom
On the 2nd November 1954 on the BBC Home Service Tony Hancock made his debut in a radio show called Hancock's Half Hour, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson it became a huge hit with audiences and is widely regarded as Britain's first sitcom. Six years earlier tom other well known writers Frank Muir and Denis Nordan had written a radio comedy series Take It From Here.
British Classic Comedy, 30th October 2014