steptoe and son on that's tv uk on now

ol ,man steptoe  amongst the crumpet

Even funnier when you think of how jealous the older generation were back in the day Foyles but he was a nine bob note!!

I have been watching The Farming Life as confined to barracks, rarely watch tv at home, brought back many memories.

brilliant

the faces that old boy pulls

I had an English auntie who came to visit.  We kids told her she just had to watch Francie(Riki Fulton) and Josie(Jack Milroy) “cos they were brilliant”.
She sat through it rather stony-faced then suggested they weren’t a patch on Steptoe and Son.  And she was so right.
The way they tormented each other!  And as you say the faces the old boy pulled.  Still love watching it.

yeah honcho think its 4 episodes every Sunday morning ,the one where Harold brought the posh bird home and her mum with the mink coat started scratching said its fleas ......old boy steptoe said she brought em in in the coat

Comedy does not get any better.

Leonard Rossiter was in one of the episodes. He was a comedy genius.

Foyles - the "old boy" as you put it, Wilfred Brambell, was only 49 years old when he started playing Steptoe, he was still only 61 when it finished !
Harry H Corbett  was only 13 years younger than him.

Was it Brambles who got caught doing naughty stuff in The Gents Toilet?....Not Judging btw each to there own.

Leonard Rossiter played an escape lag who turned up at the Steptow gaff looking for food and money etc. By the end he felt sorry for them sharing his few ciggies he had left.
Well worth a watch if it's available on the cable channels.

Leonard Rossiter played an escape lag who turned up at the Steptow gaff looking for food and money etc. By the end he felt sorry for them sharing his few ciggies he had left.
Well worth a watch if it's available on the cable channels.

Yes, quite correct Leif.

That's the one I was thinking of.

Wilfrid Brambell was just about to begin shooting the second series of iconic BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son in November 1962 when he was arrested outside a public lavatory in London’s Shepherd's Bush Green, and charged with "persistently importuning for an immoral purpose" under the Sexual Offences Act. The actor, who was riding the crest of a wave thanks to his role as the cantankerous Albert Steptoe in the show, was apprehended by two undercover policemen, for what the prosecution claimed was “looking and staring at people and smiling at them
George Michaelesque

You dirty old man !!

I always fancied the stripper Harold married in the first film version, Only Fools nicked the baby gag from the pregnant german bird episode from this Steptoe film IMO.

The Leonard Rossiter episode on YT , full episode 24 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSCqPHqDUUY

is that the "vot iz your name" episode duffy?

Yep

i saw a clip recently on youtube and i didn't remember seeing it

Season 5 Episode 1

From Prussia With Love

You can download off UK Gold on Sky.

ok ty

Acey

Still very funny now is Steptoe,, as is riding Damp, Leonard Rossiter
Is class, hé didn’t get where is today, without Been  funny

Jesus hé died in 1984. Time is fleeting
Hé was also in 2001 a space oddity, non comic role
Kubrick movie

C.J in Sunshine Desserts   


Had a brother in the program called R.J   

After the tv series finished, both actors found themselves typecast, and resorted to touring stage shows abroad. Wilfred Bramble was increasingly alcoholic and unreliable, causing friction between himself and Harry H Corbett. On tour in New Zealand, Bramble was bring interviewed live on a radio show to plug the Tour. Asked by the Host/DJ what he thought about the Venue, he said on air "I hate your feckin' Town and I hate your feckin' Cathedrals"

Hayden, wasn’t that the series, where his beautiful and
Understanding wife, handed him his umbrella n briefcase
Every morning?? Those type of women dont exist now??

Audrey in Corrie  was his secretary

Watched an episode of riding damp a few weeks back, it was the one
Where hé had to fight his black lodger, Don Warrington. They set up the
Ring in rigsbys front room.  Seriously Funny. And I don’t get amused very easily

Have a confession to make, I really fcuking fancied Miss Jones
But it gets worse, I also fancied Penelope Keith in the good life

Best Steptoe episode for me is the one where Harold is in an amateur drama club and they have a rehersal at the house. Trevor Bannister (Mr Lucas Are you being served) is the producer and as always the old guy manages to get into the play and upstage Harold. One of the funniest sitcom episodes of all time for me.

Yes Ponch , The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin.     

That's what i thought you were referring to by posting " I didn't get where i am today by " as that was the C.J punchline throughout the show as Reggie's boss and the company was Sunshine Desserts.

Best Episode is where they split their hovel in 2

Old Man Steptoe played Paul McCartneys grandad in A Hard Days Night

It was Hayden,it  just couldn’t remember what it
Was called, never knew the firm was called sunshine deserts either

Aye, and they even divided the TV screen.
That may have swayed them into giving up the feud?

Though I do have fond memories of Old man Steptoe bursting Harold's water bed

Funny you shud mention a water bed Cardinal.
My first wife and I split up over a water bed

It got a slow puncher one night, and after that, we
Just seemed to drift apart

Vintage Bernard Manning

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NzKlcBCRRQc

Fantastic watching the old stuff on tele
Just annoys me that it comes up at the start with that warning about " you may be offended, set in a previous era, etc" and all that rubbish
I still rate Allo Allo as the best ever scripts and characters

I agree Reg.  Allo. Allo. ( never do get its punctuation right ) is very funny, and so clever at times as well.  I remember when it first came out and reading a scathing criticism of how it cheapened the memory of all our war dead etc; which proved to be wrong.  Apparently loads of European countries took to it too, because it throws eggs at everybody.  His little monologue at the start of each episode is so funny and sets each episode up.

Leonard Rossiter was in also in a very early Steptoe called "The Lead Man Cometh".

Brilliant!

So many great recalls of Steptoe on here.  Brilliant stuff.  Did he not get horse chit on a sandwich once while on the buggy and just blow it off the filling and then take a big bite?

I never quite got Allo Allo, couldn’t watch any of it,  but
I suppose there’s a seat for every ars* or an ars*for every
Seat ??

I did watch a series called flebag, thought it was excellent
Very different type of comedy, Phoebe Waller bridge, gorgeous
Woman too

Poncho, Allo Allo is a marmite TV show
You either think that it's brilliant, or just don't rate it
Loyal honcho obviously thinks like me, but there's plenty with your opinion as well
Good job that there's dozens of channels to choose from
I'm watching Doc Marten right now, some funny bits but not side splitting like Allo Allo imo

My generation had quality comedy like Hancock, Steptoe, Likely Lads, Dad's Army, The Royle Family and The Office.

Now we have the rancid Mrs Brown's Boys ......

Anyone catch Bo Selecta ?? Jesus thst was funny
Craig David and Kez   Michael Jackson Chamone mf, Chamone
Michael, and Trisha piss take, rice int peas, rice n peas, ya wanna do a
Lie detector test. Hé ruined both of their careers apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guSSrBjpqQU

Ironronn, agree about Mrs Brown's Boys, started off OK but awful now
As a teenager, Monty Python was the best for us lads, although tapes of Derek and Clive (Pete Cook and Dudley Moore) off their heads, ad libbing about anything they could think of, coupled with a few cans was very good

Derek and Clive were hilarious Reg, obviously coarse and base humour but me and my group of mates loved them.
Same with Python, can't believe its 50 years since The Holy Grail - we could all quote that film line for line, great stuff.
And what do we have now.....?

Started off ok reg?.....Biggest load of sh1te from start to finish.

Brass Eye....paedogeddon...fooking brutally fantastic

A name for the nere pro-Muz Palestine party with Corbyn and Sultana - Steptoe And Daughter!

or fruit and nut^

I like that Foyles   


They're raisin some interest that's for sure.

Was it Steptoe & Son with the greyhound that stopped for a ciggie ?

currant affairs Hayden , there was an early steptoe cant remember the full details but they  were skint and pulled up in a posh street on the horse and cart  outside a big house with a for sale sign outside ,toffee nosed neighbours looking out the windows aghast ,horse leaves  a big pile of  steaming shyte in the road hyacinth bucket types send the husbands out , they end up paying the steptoes not to move in

there was a greyhound called Hercules in the film version, turned out to be useless because it was blind

True Foyles , currant affairs can always be relied upon for raisin trouble.

seen every episode and theres one cracking sketch not mentioned on here yet

The one where Harold decides they need ot better themselve by looking at houses in Suburbia?
Rag and bone men not that welcome.

I right in saying they lived in Oil Drum Lane?
Can never forget when “Candid Camera” sent a team into a very posh, leafy London Street to take away the sophisticated street name signs and put up Railway Cuttings signs.  It was hilarious as residents hit the roof, abusing the “workies” something terrible.

candid camera that bloke going mmmmmmmmmm laughing oh that one

The candid camera one I remember best...
The bloke in the pet shop sticking his hand into the giant fishbowl, with a hidden fish shaped carrot in his hand, and pretending to eat a live goldfish to the horror of the other customers

Yes, my favourite too.  Still laugh as I think about it.

Actor Dudley Foster appeared in two Steptoe episodes, as the leader of the Poker School who fleeced Harold, and as the Police Inspector investigating the fake burglary created by Albert after breaking Harold's porcelain collection.
                                                                                                       
Sadly Foster committed suicide (by hanging) at the young age of 48 in 1973, a week after the death of his father.

Dudley Foster - that's a blast from the past. He used to crop up in countless different shows on tv when i was a kid, i never realised he topped himself, how sad.

He did some films too, i recall him being part of a stellar cast for Terms Of Trial which starred Laurence Olivier, it was a Lolita type plot from memory , he played a detective. Very good actor.

" A STAR IS BORN "  .... Classic this one sorry if its already been mentioned.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8p5ivz

... Whoops, just seen Toffeegirl gave it a shout (16-16), still a great episode imo.

In the episode "Seance in a wet rag and bone yard", a very young Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bouquet) plays "Madam Fontana"

reg butler for some reason I thought that goldfish candid camera sketch was in a dry cleaners that had a bowl of  a few real goldfish  swimming around  on the counter and the fella who pretended to catch and eat them was a customer ....hilarious the reactions especially the woman , horrified they'd   shout at him you just ate one of those poor fishes you horrible man ! he would say something like  oh yes  you should try one the little ones are delicious brilliant !

Foyles, you're probably right regarding the location, it was 50 years ago so only just remembering the outline story
There was another good one where Jonathan whatshisname and 3 others all start following in a line behind a stranger walking down the High St and as he turns around they all break off in different directions, pretending to look at a shop window
Doesn't sound like it was that funny as I wrote it but was very good

Hey Reg , My bruv does remember you   your Goalscoring record is very impressive Reg

Cheers, stringy

type in candid camera goldfish delicacy on YouTube

Foyles, thanks for that, just watched it
The people's reactions are brilliant

whilst I was flicking through youtoob came across the royal family alister macgown and ronni anncona ,brilliant impressions !well worth a watch.

queen smoking and Phil scratching his ballz