A notable presence in the British film industry for several decades and a key director of 1970s film comedies including outings for Frankie Howerd, Alf Garnett and Danny la Rue Bob Kellett also produced four of the funniest short films ever made for British cinema. Starring Ronnie Barker, Richard Briers, Bernard Cribbins, Barbara Windsor, David Lodge, Wilfrid Brambell, Joan Sims and Michael Hordern, these films were wordless their humour carried by performance, sound effects and music and have all been newly restored in High Definition by Network's inhouse award-wining Restoration Team from original film elements in their original as-exhibited aspect ratio.
The fourth series of Steptoe and Son featuring everyone's favourite bickering 'rag-and-bone' junkmen. Episodes Comprise: 1. And Afterwards 2. At Crossed Swords 3. Those Magnificent Men and Their Heating Machines 4. Siege of Steptoe Street 5. A Box in Town 6. My Old Man's A Tory 7. Pilgrim's Progress
The complete seventh series of the BBC classic Steptoe and Son featuring everyone's favourite bickering 'rag-and-bone' junkmen. Episodes Comprise: 1. Men Of Letters 2. A Star Is Born 3. Oh What A Beautiful Morning 4. Live Now P.A.Y.E. Later 5. Loathe Story 6. Divided We Stand 7. The Desperate Hours
The eighth and final series of Steptoe and Son. Episodes Comprise: 1. Back in Fashion 2. Porn Yesterday 3. And So to Bed 4. The Seven Steptoerai 5. Upstairs Downstairs Upstairs Downstairs 6. Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard
The sixth series of Steptoe and Son featuring everyone's favourite bickering 'rag-and-bone' junkmen. Season 6: 1. Robbery With Violence 2. Come Dancing 3. Two's Company 4. Tea For Two 5. Without Prejudice 6. Pot Black 7. The Three Feathers 8. Cuckoo In The Nest
The second volume of The Very Best of Steptoe and Son contains five excellent episodes from the classic sitcom scripted by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who created Steptoe when Tony Hancock dispensed with their services in the early 1960s. The story of the acerbic but hopelessly pretentious Harold, would-be man about town longing in vain to escape from his rag-and-bone yard existence and his "dirty old man" of a father, is one of Britain's greatest sitcoms. Its underlying sadness somehow makes it all the funnier. "The Bath" is in black and white and features a wonderfully disgusting sequence of old man Albert retrieving pickled onions from his bathwater and putting them back in the jar. The other four episodes are from the 1970s and in colour: "Séance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard" features a young Patricia Routledge as a bogus medium. "Porn Yesterday" has Harold outraged to discover that the young Albert once starred in a "What the Butler Saw" feature. "And So to Bed" has Harold buying a waterbed to impress a new "bird" and having his romantic hopes literally punctured by his old man. The wonderful "Upstairs Downstairs, Upstairs, Downstairs" has the put-upon Harold getting the better of his dad for once when he discovers that the "perpendicular ponce" is feigning a back injury to keep Harold at his beck and call and plans an excruciating revenge--a bed bath. There's only one shortcoming: completists would prefer these old episodes to be issued chronologically and in full rather than in selective "Best of" compilations. On the DVD: The Very Best of Steptoe and Son episodes are presented in the format in which they were originally shown and all hold up well without any great efforts at enhancement. There are no extras. --David Stubbs
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Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett return as Albert and Harold Steptoe the bickering 'rag-and-bone' junkmen in another installment of the classic comedy series Steptoe And Son. Episodes Comprise: 1. Homes Fit For Heroes 2. The Wooden Overcoats 3. The Lead Man Cometh 4. Steptoe a la Cart 5. Sunday For Seven Days 6. The Bonds That Bind Us 7. The Lodger
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