When Steptoe Met Son

When Steptoe Met Son

"When Steptoe Met Son" is a 2002 Channel 4 documentary about the personal lives of Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, the stars of the longrunning BBC situation comedy, "Steptoe and Son". It aired on 20 August 2002.

The programme reveals how Brambell and Corbett were highly dissimilar to their on-screen characters. Corbett felt he had a promising career as a serious actor, but was trapped by his role as Harold and forced to keep returning to the series after typecasting limited his choice of work. Brambell, meanwhile, was a homosexual, something that in the 1960s was still frowned upon and, until the Sexual Offences Act 1967, illegal, and was thus driven underground. The documentary went on to describe an ill-fated final tour of Australia, during which the already strained relationship between Corbett and Brambell finally broke down for good. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,776815,00.html "The Guardian"] : feature on the Channel 4 documentary]

ee also

* "The Curse of Steptoe"

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