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Post by Gene Hunt on Nov 4, 2023 17:05:36 GMT
Can't believe we don't have a discussion thread for Steptoe & Son! Maybe a dedicated Steptoe & Son section is in order? Anyway, an interesting Radio Times cover dating back to February 1972. https://www.instagram.com/p/CzO1DrqoQMN Gene.
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Post by Cartman on Nov 4, 2023 17:14:58 GMT
Brilliant programme, the acting by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H Corbett was excellent, a few memorable episodes were the one where a protection racket started hassling them and Albert got a load of his OAP mates to kung fu them!
I have heard the programme likened to a Samuel Beckett play with a theme of two people being trapped and unable to escape, Harold always wanted to go further in life and was constantly thwarted.
The theme tune by Ron Grainer was great too, really matching the programme and it's another reminder of the charachterful place the old London was
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Nov 5, 2023 19:05:56 GMT
Interesting that there was a 5 year gap between the original episodes which ran from 1962 to 1965 then the more well known colour series started and ran from 1970 to 1974.
The episodes I've seen I've always found funny with a pair of original and well written characters from Galton and Simpson; Indeed as has been said there were similar real life characters like them still around in some parts of London and other areas of the UK no doubt.
I remembered seeing this sketch from Mike Yarwood, doing impressions of the pair of them here:
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Post by Sam Tyler on Nov 5, 2023 19:30:31 GMT
We may not have had a thread till now but we did enjoy yet another damn good meet four years ago when on that occasion we visited Steptoeland, where has that time gone?
Classic series that, for me, is overdue a rerun.
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Post by On To A Winner on Nov 6, 2023 16:37:55 GMT
Interesting that there was a 5 year gap between the original episodes which ran from 1962 to 1965 then the more well known colour series started and ran from 1970 to 1974.
Also interesting, how they managed to make a go of the later ones - given that gap.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Nov 14, 2023 20:13:27 GMT
Interesting clip from 1976. Mike Yarwood in Persons. Skip to 27:35 for his impersonation of Steptoe & Son - while Harry H Corbett & Wilfrid Brambel were in the audience!
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Post by Gene Hunt on Nov 17, 2023 22:03:21 GMT
Corbett & Brambell rehearsing in 1970, and writers Galton & Simpson at work. Fascinating watching them in their own clothes rather than the Steptoe Costumes.
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Post by Villain on Nov 18, 2023 15:07:03 GMT
Fantastic clip that Gene, thanks for sharing - and quite an eyeful seeing Galton & Simpson getting into their top flight motors at the end Villain
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Post by Three Litre on Nov 18, 2023 19:26:25 GMT
Corbett & Brambell rehearsing in 1970, and writers Galton & Simpson at work. Fascinating watching them in their own clothes rather than the Steptoe Costumes. Gene. That Rolls is still going.
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Post by Del Boy on Nov 19, 2023 13:41:46 GMT
Great find Galton and Simpson mention £20000 is an easily attainable figure for a top writer. This equates to an inflation adjusted £262,140 in today's bread assuming it was filmed in 1970.
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