Lost Sitcoms
- TV sitcom
- BBC Four
- 2016
- 3 episodes (1 series)
Series recreating episodes from legendary comedy series that are now missing believed wiped. Stars Kevin McNally, Robin Sebastian, Jon Culshaw, Katy Wix, Kevin Eldon and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 1 - Till Death Us Do Part: A Woman's Place Is In The Home
Notes
See also the original episode
A 5-minute factual short, Let's Talk About Alf, was broadcast immediately after this programme. It featured Simon Day, Michael Grade, Beryl Vertue, Graham Linehan, Lee Mack, Adil Ray, Trix Worrell and Jon Plowman.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 1st September 2016
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Length
- 25 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Cast & crew
| Simon Day | Alf Garnett |
| Lizzie Roper | Elsie |
| Sydney Rae White | Rita |
| Carl Au | Mike |
| Victoria Balnaves | Girl in Phone Box |
| Vari Sylvester | Woman at Phone Box |
| Robert Jack | Ted (Voice) |
| Robert Jack | Telephone Operator (Voice) |
| Johnny Speight | Writer |
| Ben Gosling Fuller | Director |
| Owen Bell | Producer |
| Steven Canny | Executive Producer |
| Tilusha Ghelani | Executive Producer |
| Chris Sussman | Executive Producer |
| Neil Pearson | Associate Producer |
| Richard Halladay (as Richard Halladey) | Editor |
| Iain McDonald | Production Designer |
| Kahleen Crawford | Casting Director |
| Caroline Stewart | Casting Director |
| Martin Hawkins | Director of Photography |
| Katherine Hyland | Costume Designer |
| Hannah Ireland | Costume Designer |
| Yvonne Simpson | Costume Designer |
| Lee Wilmot | Costume Designer |
| Julie Dorrat-Keenan | Make-up Designer |
Video
Alf is desperate to use a phone box
Alf Garnett is desperate to use the phone box, but a girl is keeping him waiting.
Featuring: Simon Day (Alf Garnett) & Victoria Balnaves (Girl in Phone Box).
Press
Re-record, not fade away: The Lost Sitcoms strand resurrects wiped BBC classics by remaking them from the original scripts. That means "new" episodes of Steptoe and Son and Hancock's Half Hour, but first up is Simon Day channelling Warren Mitchell as bigoted cockney foghorn Alf Garnett, howling at the cosmos after being denied his dinner. It's followed by a doc exploring the ambiguous appeal of Alf, the original problematic fave.
Graeme Virtue, The Guardian, 1st September 2016Till Death Us Do Part preview
Tightened budgets are cutting deep at the BBC. They can't even afford sets with walls for their season of Lost Sitcoms...
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 1st September 2016The Lost Sitcoms: Till Death Us Do Part - review
While there were some laughs, especially in the phone box scenes in which lines get crossed, the episode did feel at times rather pedestrian. You get the feeling that of all the episodes the BBC could have picked to remake, this was one of the lesser ones.
Ian Wolf, On The Box, 1st September 2016TV preview: Till Death Us Do Part, BBC4
Are you ready for a cross between Festen and Mrs Brown's Boys? This is the weirdest contribution to the Landmark Sitcom Season yet. BBC4 has recreated a lost episode of the 1960s Alf Garnett sitcom Till Death Us Do Part using Johnny Speight's surviving script. And as they say on the internet, when you watch it your jaw will hit the floor.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st August 2016Preview: Till Death Us Do Part
Unfortunately, this outdated set-up works against the production, reminding audiences how much our day to day lives have changed in 40 years - and not just with the advent of mobile phones and, dare we say it, Just Eat and Deliveroo.
The Velvet Onion, 31st August 2016