Quote: paulted @ 15th March 2014, 1:49 PM GMTI think that before it got to TV, Wilfrid Brambell was the original Rigsby on stage before Leonard Rossiter. How different would that show have been?
Sort of coincidence - J.G. Devlin, who played the Irish escaped convict with Leonard Rossiter in Steptoe's "Desperate Hours" was going to be 'Arold's dad if Wilfrid Brambell had turned the part down.
