Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Albert Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell), Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett). Copyright: BBC
Steptoe And Son

Steptoe And Son

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 1962 - 1974
  • 57 episodes (8 series)

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold run a rag and bone business. Harold wants to move on in the world and leave home but his plans are always thwarted. Stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett.

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Steptoe And Son is 50 years old

Forget the laughter. It was the tears, a trickle of real grief, that announced a new kind of comedy on television half a century ago.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 9th January 2012

Five ways Steptoe & Son changed TV comedy

January 4, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of Steptoe & Son, one of the most influential sitcoms ever broadcast. Catherine Bray looks at how the sitcom has influenced TV comedies since.

Catherine Bray, The Telegraph, 3rd January 2012

Your next box set: Steptoe & Son

This diamond-hard comedy of manipulation and mistrust between two warring rag-and-bone men deserves the same adoration as its comedy peers.

Andrew Pulver, The Guardian, 13th December 2011

"Steptoe & Son": A British comedy classic

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, the comic geniuses behind one of Britain's greatest situation comedies, talk to Suite 101 about how the show came about.

Adrian Peel, Suite 101, 29th October 2011

Comedy legends Galton & Simpson to visit Milton Keynes

Comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to visit Milton Keynes to see a stage version of one of their classic shows, Steptoe & Son.

They will be at the opening night at the Chrysalis Theatre in Willen Park after working on the adaptation with David Pibworth from the Milton Keynes Theatre of Comedy.

BBC News, 24th October 2011

Steptoe to go Dutch

Classic sitcom Steptoe and Son is finally to return to the small screen - but this time in the more unlikely setting of Holland.

Cladia Goulder, The Daily Express, 15th July 2009

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