I think this is the first ever episode I saw, back in the mid 1980s when I was a knee high. It had me in stitches then and I laughed out loud seeing it now. The bit when Harold explains he’s going to connect the hot water, through his dad’s bed frame and his dad’s reaction is priceless. Thanks very much.
How we were blessed to see such a brilliant comic duo in action harold and Albert steptoe they made acting history with their visual expressive timing and talent a joy to behold everytime l watch them even after twenty odd years it still gets me laughing and thats legendary stuff
All the best to you guys,left the council estate forty odd years ago with six hundred in me back pocket,my daughter is a dr consultant great sone heaating engineer,love Devon,best move I ever made,cheers guys from sidmouth,ha,all the best guys.
After watching a few on here, I got the boxset of Xmas one year, and it was great to see all of them! mad to think that most of these are 50 years plus old now!
Steptoe & Son , epic comedy from a golden era of vintage British comedies from the 1960s and 70s. Brilliant writing, great character acting, and comedy timing and deliverance at its finest. (Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ,(R.I.P)
I've finally got 'round to watching S&S and I'm glad this is the first one I picked. I grew up watching Sanford & Son in the US but I always knew it was based upon this programme.
The best sitcom duo pairing ever The chemistry is so believable as it was made for them both to portray these created characters of the comedy writers Galton and simpson
DAVID MICHAEL PYPER In real life Wilfred Brambell and Harry HCorbett didn’t really get on, it’s due to their professionalism that the show was what it was.
OMG I first saw this the night it was broadcast and have never seen it sinse but have never forgotten it. I'm only intot he first 9 mins but i know whats coming..i'm so glad to have found this after all them years. well done for you for uploading it, i thought is was gone forever
I've been with albert and harold at the mews cottage ,old drum lane, shepards bush for 46 year's, still enjoy every second. Way ahead of their time, nice one Ben Rouse.
I'm seventy now and I still remember my mum and dad watching this and having a good laugh over this when I... think I was about seven or eight years old. Now it's my turn. 😅🤣
@@pepwaverley2185 No, sorry; It was a lot earlier than 65, I left England for Australia in 65, and it never showed over here. Whoops, you said the 4th series, when did the first one show, do you remember?
I have always loved this show it upset me when the media brought that documentary out slaying the actors relationship and outing their private life's very sad 😢 but I still love ❤ to watch every episode over and over 👍👍👍👍👍👍👌 🤸🛀 up ya pipe
jack freeman what’s happened to that episode? It’s gone off RU-vid, there’s some horrible copy of it that’s too small to watch and is a reverse picture to how it was recorded. There used to be a normal good copy of it, that’s gone now.
Poor harold. He really believed in that crazy pipe configuration. The thing that makes me laugh is Albert shouting " turn it orff " . A brilliant episode . Top comedy that stands the test of time in that it is still funny!
In the 20th minute, Albert explains what his parents were like and tells Harold that compared to them, he’s got it cushy. It’s the same for every generation. I was born in 1980 and the world that I grew up in has completely changed. There used to be greencrocers, Fish mongers and even an Iron monger and a rag n bone man with a horse cart, in Lewes East Sussex. Everything was very Olde World back then, now that’s all gone and forgotten about. My grandad drove a land rover that had a manual crank starter and although we had heating in our council house, it was expensive for us and it either didn’t work very well, or roasted us alive. I especially remember the pollution from old cars, buses and lorries. I near choked to death when they drove past me. That was the last vestiges of the old hard way of life. Now life’s too easy and we’ve all gone soft that’s why Britain’s going down the tube. All we need a vast powerful navy and then we can go and take everything we need from others. But that’s not PC and you’d be branded a racist saying that today. Imagine what the Victorians would think of us today, they’d be ashamed and wish they’d never allowed us to wreck their world.
Me too. I remember me, my Dad and brother being in absolute kinks when the whole system started to clank, move around and spray water. According to the BBC website it was broadcast on Monday 18 Oct 1965, which means I was 11...
I used to watch this as a Kid. Years later I learned that Harold was a frustrated serious actor and Albert was homosexual who had a passion for antiques. As far from their characters as they could be.
This aired on Monday 18th October 1965 at 7.30pm on BBC One - this was a very clever move on the BBC's part, as it would have aired up against the hugely popular soap Coronation Street which aired on Mondays at 7.30pm over on ITV. A tough choice for viewers in 1965.
Wow would have loved radiators in the sixties,all my parents had was a coal fire in the front room and a useless paraffin heater in the kitchen,more ice on the inside of the bedroom windows than outside ha ha the good old days.
fantastic REAL comedy !!! thank you so much for posting, love LOVE these episodes
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My dad fitted our system while the rest of us were on holiday.He had,actually,run pipes around skirting boards and cut bits out of the doors to accommodate them.But........it worked!
As a Beatles fan and Steptoe and Son fan it’s good to no the Beatles loved this show and watched it every week when a new episode came out 👍🏻 even using Wilfred Bramble in there first movie a hard days night
A lot of classic American sitcoms of the early-mid 70s were based on British programs of the late 60s-early 70s ("Steptoe and Son" = "Sanford and Son" to name but one) so thank you for the great programming at your end that brought great programming to our end.
THe episode where the vicar comes around and they are playing scrabble is hilarious. As the vicar glances at the board, it is riddled with obscenities.
The nation as it was, the remains of the war with us. Brilliant series, and I remember the rag and bone man coming round with his horse and cart. "Any old iron."
Best british comedy ever, along with of course fools & horses- I bet the yanks are so jealous of our great comedy tradition- all they have is laurel & Hardy and that was half British
Always chuckle at Harold bemoaning the idea of inheriting a 2 bedroom detached mews with private courtyard in the heart of Shepherds Bush, I shudder to think what such a property would be worth these days
Utterly brilliant acting and scripts. Galton and Simpson wanted to write a series about rag and bone men. They found it much better to write for actors rather than for Tony Hancock.
FYI _ The whole area of West London where the outside filming took place for the rag & bone yard has totally changed, much of it is now a private industrial estate..
