Basic Info

First Air: January 05, 1962

Rating: ⭐ 7.8/10 (33 votes)

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 55

Last Episode

Name: Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard

Season: 8, Episode: 6

Air Date: 1974-10-10

Runtime: 30 min

Albert invites a spiritualist to give a reading so he can contact his dead wife, but Harold is sceptical over the whole thing...

Steptoe and Son

1962 ⭐ 7.8/10 33 votes

Overview

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.