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Steptoe and Son: With Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Frank Thornton, Tim Buckland. British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.
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The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy. British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London.
The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy. Thirtysomething Harold and his elderly father Albert work as rag-and-bone men (collecting and selling junk).
The series focused on the inter-generational conflict of father and son. Albert Steptoe, a "dirty old man", is an elderly rag-and-bone man, set in his grimy and grasping ways. By contrast, his son Harold is filled with social aspirations and pretensions.
The intergenerational divide between the miserly Albert Steptoe and his ambitious son Harold Steptoe results in comedy, drama, and tragedy. He was born as Henry Wilfrid Brambell in Dublin, Ireland, to Henry Litton Brambell (1870-1937), and his wife Edith St. Faith Marks Brambell (1879-1965), on March 22, 1913.
May 2, 2012 · Steptoe and Son had an immense influence on British television comedy, and specifically on the writers who created some of the finest British sitcoms of the last fifty years.
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The programme revolves around the intergenerational relationship between a rag and bone father and son. Story The father, set in his grimy ways, and often described by his son as a 'dirty old man', is the opposite in character to his son, who is aspirational but pretentious.
