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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Poignant moments lengthen all the time in Steptoe stories. Writers Simpson and Galton take the most appalling risks - and somehow pull them off. Triumphantly.
Dennis Potter, Daily Herald, 8th January 1964Indeed, scriptwriters Galton and Simpson have gone further. They have tried to introduce characterisations and subtleties of relationship between Steptoe which would not be out-of-place in so-called serious drama. But the old rituals of comedy have not been abandoned, thank goodness.
Dennis Potter, Daily Herald, 15th February 1963First, on BBC, it was a rollicking welcome back to Steptoe and Son. The two quarrelling scrap merchants were in peak form. With delightful surges of rhetoric, evil flashes of animal cunning, and the ever-developing like-hate relationship between father and son, this episode confirmed yet again that the junk-yard family is the best thing that has happened to TV comedy in years.
Dennis Potter, Daily Herald, 4th January 1963