Same, I havent gone a night in years without watching some old bbc comedy...I think it's probably one of my biggest fears is losing that particular part if my routine...about twice a year the power goes out and in up all night bc I wasn't able to watch one of my shows lol
The last segment where he Albert says I’m glad you’re home and Harold smiles and says so am I .. is just effortless and heartwarming, you could actually imagine these being father and son in real life that’s how good they were
vintage comedies like these remain classics to this day,....great writing and terrific character acting made this so popular and so endearing to so many people,....and it's a pity modern comedies aren't half as funny , and charming as these old sitcoms....
Brilliant I never saw this one , absolute classic comedy , what an acting partnership they were ,great to see Youther Joice before George and Mildred fame.
I always enjoy episodes when at least Harold manages to walk away with something. Even though everything went to pot as usual, at least he didn't have to go crawling back to the old man on his hands and knees...he was able to put up something of a front. Not much I agree...but pretty good for Harold in this series.
I love the satisfactory "status-quo-is-god" in this series, especially the 60s episodes. You know what will happen per usual, but they did it in a not too contrived way. And yes, it was nice see Albert wanted Harold home more than he wanted to come home. It may have *actually* worked out for Harold if he did not have *such* a miserable old cow for a landlady.
Yes she did as one of his aunties at Alberts "funeral". She says to Harold "he's only sleeping" to which Harold replies "I know he is......lazy bleeder".
The old sitcom routine. You know have to have them back at the yard for the start of next week's episode, so nothing ever does work out. The only time it only really does was in "A Perfect Christmas", where Harold tricks Albert into going abroad for Christmas on his own and leaving Harold to own devices back home. And that was the last ever episode.
I remember watching Steptoe & Son when I was 15 1973, loved the show when a kid, could be a bit risky sometimes especially when his son would bring a bird home, I would say lady though to be politically correct now. XX
Compared to today's comedy, this is incredibly tame. Heck, even "The Simpsons" is remarkably tame by today's standards, and you know how fuss parents made over that in the 90s.
I'm 25 and Blk American, this is timeless, well well written, dark and hilarious I grew up on the American adaption Sanford and Son, it was more of a happy un-pc comedy hosted by Redd Foxx, he was our Bernard Manning, they were just as talented as Corbett and Brambell were... everyone is "offensive" this is just the white version of Black comedy from the 70s; working class men having fun, making crude jokes but being smart about it
I suppose you know that Sandford and Son is Steptoe and Son adjusted for America? I watched the first episode of Sandford and Son out of interest and it follows the original Steptoe episode almost exactly. I think it is a shame really that America feels the need to re-write comedy from Britain or even Australia (e.g. Kath and Kim). I don't really understand quite why they do it.
Quite often, humor is the best way to highlight ignorance, and negative bias. If you watch "Love Thy Neighbor", it did more to defeat racism than it ever did encourage it, but it would be banned today.
Another brilliant BBC comedy. This,Fawlty Towers,The Young Ones, Blackadder,Rab C Nesbitt,Only Fools,Bottom,etc etc etc. God Almighty,what has happened to the BBC???? There is no comedy these days.
Well, I suppose it would have been fairly easy for a scruffy shoebox with a view of the gasworks but I suspect probably there would have been checks for anyone wanting to rent a nicer place.
yes you could walk out of one job straight into another no reference .now the gov got council tax from everyone yet the country is worse off they waste money left right and center .theres house shortages people living on the streets soup kitchens 0 houre contracts nhs on last legs. drug abuse a broken justice system and it go s on and on and on .
Kaz Fleszar I work with a 73 year old man he mentions it now and again when he was a young man he walked out of umpteen jobs and walked into a new one just like that, you couldn't do that now not a hope in hell.
It's only weeks of referencing when applicants drag their heels completing simple online forms. Referencing is usually done and dusted inside a week if the proposed tenants get their fingers out,
Don't remember seeing this episode although always been a big fan of S&S but really enjoyed watching it. I assume from the amount of hair Wilfred Bramble has that it was quite an early one?
Miss Pie Wackitt Your entitled to your opinion, however, I feel that Yootha was an exceptional actress she started in rep alongside her husband Glynn Edwards they hardly had any money as many actors found themselves in the sixties and put on plays just because they loved both the creativity and performance. I have always found Yootha an amazingly strong actor, she was fantastic in our mother's house with dirk bogarde and Pamela Franklin and in the Pumpkin Eaters against another powerhouse actor the late Anne Bancroft. Harry H Corbett was an extremely talented actor, due to the passion in his performance and that is where Yootha matched him line by line they were similar style performers..
It's funny, but this show doesn't make sense to me. I'm so accustomed to winning that I can't identify with people who lose no matter what - I can't root for people who do stupid things and then lose because of their stupidity.
I can watch these old comedies over and over again, and still find them funny.
Your a lady who appreciates comedy gold; we won't see their like again Meanqueen, I love your "Life After Munaaay! 🌹🌹🌹
Same, I havent gone a night in years without watching some old bbc comedy...I think it's probably one of my biggest fears is losing that particular part if my routine...about twice a year the power goes out and in up all night bc I wasn't able to watch one of my shows lol
Hancocks half hour is another great series..
Me too….
Absolutely brilliant better than today's comedy shows
Wonderful Yootha Joyce, she was (thankfully!) Everywhere wen I was a youngster!! Brilliant lady!!
The last segment where he Albert says I’m glad you’re home and Harold smiles and says so am I .. is just effortless and heartwarming, you could actually imagine these being father and son in real life that’s how good they were
Flip,, theirs only a 12 year age gap between the two.
Yootha Joyce RIP brilliant actress 🙏
My regularly routine at midnight on Friday and Saturday nights is doing a midnight toke and watch Steptoe and Son and Rising Damp back to back.
The best way too spend Fri sat nights.
I remember watching this show back in the mid 60's. It was great then and equally as good today.
vintage comedies like these remain classics to this day,....great writing and terrific character acting made this so popular and so endearing to so many people,....and it's a pity modern comedies aren't half as funny , and charming as these old sitcoms....
Harry H Corbett, was a Royal Marine Great actor. Wilfred Bramble was born in Ireland Southern. He was also a Great actor.Rest in piece both of you.
I love yootha especially as Mildred x
Thanks for these classic comedies,my favourites.
"Same way you came here walk" love Albert's chivalrous charm at the very end
Dirty old man!
Mildred has got a hip happening coat on, Harold has got hancocks rain coat on from the blood donor😅 Poor Harold, he never stood a chance😢
They are all enjoying a brandy in heaven!
Only one word for this wonderful!!!!
Ben Rouse SALUTE and thanks for sharing these video's of the lad's, great crack, brings back alot of great memories 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👍 👍 👍 👍
i just love these episodes, so much better/funnier than today !
So glad Yootha Joyce is on there absolutely admire her! Luv her loads ❤ xxxxxxxxx
Yes, she played in a few episodes sometimes as a girlfriend, sometimes as an aunt !!!
Yootha was always elegant, a bit of a dish ! She could put her shoes under my bed any time .
B Nelso Do you mean Meth ? Yeah she was a lush but it didn't show, a classy dame !
I've always found her hideous! Shes got an annoying voice and those weird scary teeth! Also in that George & Mildred comedy, scary as hell!
Yep she's great in George and Mildred too 😀❤
Brilliant I never saw this one , absolute classic comedy , what an acting partnership they were ,great to see Youther Joice before George and Mildred fame.
George and Mildred was a spin off from "Man About The House", because they stole the show every time they were on it.
Youtha's clothes are amazing, even in this, and George and Mildred
Yootha Joyce played Harolds auntie freda in a film version "steptoe & son :Ride again "1973
Old man Steptoe is an uncannily accurate replica of my late grandfather, and his way of controlling Harold through guilt is so well observed!
I really fancy watching the George and Mildred movie now too x
Steptoe & son are great but alot of truth between the lines another lifetime ago shame it's gone!!!!
I always enjoy episodes when at least Harold manages to walk away with something. Even though everything went to pot as usual, at least he didn't have to go crawling back to the old man on his hands and knees...he was able to put up something of a front. Not much I agree...but pretty good for Harold in this series.
BelatedCommiseration
I love the satisfactory "status-quo-is-god" in this series, especially the 60s episodes. You know what will happen per usual, but they did it in a not too contrived way. And yes, it was nice see Albert wanted Harold home more than he wanted to come home. It may have *actually* worked out for Harold if he did not have *such* a miserable old cow for a landlady.
This comedy never dates.
As good now as it was back in it`s time.
Yootha Joyce would later appear in one of the film versions of Steptoe and Son, "Rides Again" in 1973.
best comedy in the world as far as i am concerned
@@reannepinnock1696 I agree 100%
The show that Sanford And Son was based on.
Yes she did as one of his aunties at Alberts "funeral". She says to Harold "he's only sleeping" to which Harold replies "I know he is......lazy bleeder".
"We've got a talking horse have we now" lol
Good old Utah Joyce...great actress
Brilliant show so funny 🤣
Petty life isn't like this now at least people spoke to each other or went to the pub to interact not like now were their all stuck to their phones
Superb Harry and Wilford and pretty yootha r.i.p.....
Don't get carried away, l'm not the open air type. 😅😅😅😅 I'm not going to stand against a wall all night, I'm too old for that! 😂😂😂😂
One of my personal favourites because Harold does actually try and move out, to no success admittedly
The old sitcom routine. You know have to have them back at the yard for the start of next week's episode, so nothing ever does work out. The only time it only really does was in "A Perfect Christmas", where Harold tricks Albert into going abroad for Christmas on his own and leaving Harold to own devices back home. And that was the last ever episode.
this is my favourite episode both very good actors
I remember watching Steptoe & Son when I was 15 1973, loved the show when a kid, could be a bit risky sometimes especially when his son would bring a bird home, I would say lady though to be politically correct now. XX
Compared to today's comedy, this is incredibly tame. Heck, even "The Simpsons" is remarkably tame by today's standards, and you know how fuss parents made over that in the 90s.
Amongst the laughs I always found steptoe and son a little depressing.....
They are *both* trapped in their relationship, forever and eternity.
Just like real life...😔
I didn't, but Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" made me borderline suicidal
Yootha Joyce was on the cover of the smiths "the world won't listen" cover apparently a photo taken by Morrissey himself,
my god a very young Yootha Joyce in george and Mildred
She was married to Dave the barman from Minder
He needs to find girls who have their own place
Personally the episode with Joanna Lumley was a classic she was Harolds posh girlfriend and she brings her mum to meat Albert at the house classic
I'm 25 and Blk American, this is timeless, well well written, dark and hilarious
I grew up on the American adaption Sanford and Son, it was more of a happy un-pc comedy hosted by Redd Foxx, he was our Bernard Manning, they were just as talented as Corbett and Brambell were...
everyone is "offensive" this is just the white version of Black comedy from the 70s; working class men having fun, making crude jokes but being smart about it
I suppose you know that Sandford and Son is Steptoe and Son adjusted for America? I watched the first episode of Sandford and Son out of interest and it follows the original Steptoe episode almost exactly.
I think it is a shame really that America feels the need to re-write comedy from Britain or even Australia (e.g. Kath and Kim). I don't really understand quite why they do it.
Quite often, humor is the best way to highlight ignorance, and negative bias.
If you watch "Love Thy Neighbor", it did more to defeat racism than it ever did encourage it, but it would be banned today.
The age of them and having to tiptoe round the old man.
Another brilliant BBC comedy.
This,Fawlty Towers,The Young Ones, Blackadder,Rab C Nesbitt,Only Fools,Bottom,etc etc etc.
God Almighty,what has happened to the BBC???? There is no comedy these days.
Brilliant comedy
"you dirty old man"
You unhygienic.male Person of advanced years !!!
Youtha Joyce had the most sexiest mouths ever,she was a brilliant actress too
Lovely to see.
Love the way she talks to Harold when she gets angry!!!! The jacket is weird she is wearing. Is it latex or pvc or rubber????
Pvc Very popular material for coats & boots in 60s
@@citizen1163 yes pamla they called it the wet look I think?
Some sort of fashionable 60s gear.
Oh I remember the old vinyl wet look!
Harold gets a flat straight after a viewing. What about the weeks of credit and reference checks. Life must've been so much better in the 60's.
Well, I suppose it would have been fairly easy for a scruffy shoebox with a view of the gasworks but I suspect probably there would have been checks for anyone wanting to rent a nicer place.
yes you could walk out of one job straight into another no reference .now the gov got council tax from everyone yet the country is worse off they waste money left right and center .theres house shortages people living on the streets soup kitchens 0 houre contracts nhs on last legs. drug abuse a broken justice system and it go s on and on and on .
Kaz Fleszar I work with a 73 year old man he mentions it now and again when he was a young man he walked out of umpteen jobs and walked into a new one just like that, you couldn't do that now not a hope in hell.
@purplepeach 244 £22 was a lot of money in late 60s. A salary of £1,000 pa, £20 a week, was very good!
It's only weeks of referencing when applicants drag their heels completing simple online forms. Referencing is usually done and dusted inside a week if the proposed tenants get their fingers out,
Good these two were
Getting to know you getting to know all about you!!!😁😁😁😁
If Harolds "birds" were too busy etc why didn't he just go to a few pubs there must have been one on every street back then?
The boozers may have shut. Also, could be a Sunday.
Why do we as humans crave the past. I wonder why humans cannot remember every detail of our life. From every minute to each second.
"You great fairy" Lol. The snowflakes won't like that !
Lee Englandland how dare you!!!
Sweet
I wanted to add a comment onto And Afterwards when Harold got jilted. I wanted to say doesn't he scrub up well very poignant episode..
Ilove and miss u Shania x
Hilarious
Why don't you go over to the bird's place, Harold?
That's a good point, Adam! Wouldn't fit the plot, I suppose.
Poor old Albert he can't keep it up
Yootha was the best looking woman in this episode, which gives you a good idea how awful the others were!
Yes because the steptoe guys were such handsome lookers 😂😂😂
Second Side Up Radio BBC UA-cam rates this. Likely = in every early historical aspect to Fawlty.
Yootha!
Funny to think that there’s only 13 years between the actors.
Boom microphone is visible at 6.14 as Yootha Joyce gets up from the sofa.
That was a real problem is early US TV. The bright lighting would clearly make the boom's shadow obvious.
could you upload the episode "the diploma" please
Don't remember seeing this episode although always been a big fan of S&S but really enjoyed watching it. I assume from the amount of hair Wilfred Bramble has that it was quite an early one?
It's from series 4 1965..
@@jrgboy Cheers
Not with Auntie Freda? Whatever would Lennie say?
Blimey, she looked in her early sixties even then, surely they could have given the part to a younger actress.
SHUDDUP!!!!!!😈😈😬😬
DON'T CALL ME ALBY !!
Who played Avis
Who came up with the name Avis? Shouldn't it be Mavis?
It's Mildred Georges wife...
I was just watching One Foot In the Grave where Brian Murphy starred in one of the episodes called 'The Man who Blew Away'
Yootha juice quite dishy
Hat the buck
She looks more like the horse than the horse did.😖😖😖
Can't stand Yootha Joyce, she was crap in everything she was in. JMO.
Piggleston Wiggleston cruel comment.
Miss Pie Wackitt Your entitled to your opinion, however, I feel that Yootha was an exceptional actress she started in rep alongside her husband Glynn Edwards they hardly had any money as many actors found themselves in the sixties and put on plays just because they loved both the creativity and performance.
I have always found Yootha an amazingly strong actor, she was fantastic in our mother's house with dirk bogarde and Pamela Franklin and in the Pumpkin Eaters against another powerhouse actor the late Anne Bancroft.
Harry H Corbett was an extremely talented actor, due to the passion in his performance and that is where Yootha matched him line by line they were similar style performers..
What an idiotic comment, ignorant to say the least as she was a brilliant actress.
Wackitt another sad lonely cat lady with no hope of life fulfillment.
Never mind, you might come back as a cat and have an owner like yourself.
Opinion is opinion. I personally can't stand Ricky Gervais.
It's funny, but this show doesn't make sense to me. I'm so accustomed to winning that I can't identify with people who lose no matter what - I can't root for people who do stupid things and then lose because of their stupidity.
fjvideo Try to win the Euro lottery and learn to get use to losing 😉
You are used to winning ???? Winning what????
@@joesmoke9624 That's true.
@@Realpoweronearth In life.
I don't understand your comment.