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Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter

Steptoe And Son, Tea For Two

November 20, 2019
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Steptoe And Son, Tea For Two, 1970 As it's election time and politicians are visiting their "people" we thought it would be amusing to look back at what happened when Albert Steptoe was visited by a certain po...
galton and simpson to receive Bafta fellowship

Galton And Simpson’s Half Hour

March 14, 2019
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
Galton And Simpson's Half Hour, 2009 Galton And Simpson's Half Hour was the title given to a series of four radio plays broadcast by BBC Radio 2 in 2009 to celebrate the writers' 40th anniversary. The plays...

The Alpine Holiday

January 7, 2019
1950's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Hancock's Half Hour, The Alpine Holiday, 1957 The first episode of series two sees a change of cast.  Sid James featured in the Hancock's Half Hour TV series but is absent in this episode. Instead Hancock s...

Tony Hancock’s Christmas Special

December 2, 2018
1950's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Hancock's 43 minutes, 1957 Hancock's 43 minutes came at the end of the third series of his BBC television series. Christmas Specials as we now know them were unheard of in the day, consequently this was the...

Galton And Simpson’s Impasse

November 20, 2018
1960's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Galton And Simpson's Impasse, 1963 Following on from the success of Hancock's Half hour came an idea presented to the two writers by then head of BBC Comedy: Tom Sloan. Comedy Playhouse.  A series of of stand ...

In Profile – Galton And Simpson

October 21, 2018
Comedy Profiles, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Ray Galton And Alan Simpson Perhaps, Britain's best known comedy writers.  Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are best known for their classic sitcom Steptoe and Son and for their work with Tony Hancock, but there we...
les dawson stars in Dawson's Weekly 7 one off sitcoms written by galton and simpson

Dawson’s Weekly, 1975

October 16, 2018
1970's ITV Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
In Tribute To Ray Galton Who Passed Away Last Week Galton And Simpson And Les Dawson Present:Dawson's Weekly, 1975 Dawson's Weekly sees Les Dason try his hand at sitcom with a little help from legendary comed...

Hancock’s Half Hour, The Radio Series, 1954

June 27, 2018
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...
steptoe and son ride again title screen

Steptoe And Son Ride Again – 1973

March 22, 2018
1970's BBC Comedy, Film Spin Offs, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
They're Back for a second Feature Film - Steptoe And Son Ride Again - 1973 It's hard to believe that more than 40 years after it's final TV broadcast Steptoe and Son is as popular as it ever was.. Harold’s ...

A Junk Yard Full Of Laughs On The Big Screen….

March 16, 2018
Film Spin Offs, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Steptoe and Son The Movie - 1972 Like many popular sitcoms of the day Steptoe and Son was given the big screen treatment in 1972.  Written by the same writing team that were responsible for the television show...
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