Till Death Us Do Part Christmas 1966 Pt1

This highly controversial BBC sitcom started in 1965, with Peter Sellers reluctantly turning down role, due to a busy schedule, and handing the reigns to Warren Mitchell. The right wing loud mouthed bigot Alf lived with his wife, Else, (who wore the trousers), his daughter Rita and her husband Mike (an unemployed Liverpudlian with left wing views). Alf criticised the government, the church, Mike, and just about everybody jammed the BBC switchboard with a complaint or two, but the audience figures were huge and so he stayed where he was. Alf transferred to ITV and back, then to ITV for a final outing, collecting two feature films en route. The writer's view was that we were to laught AT Alf Garnett, but like all monstrous sitcom characters, people loved him as well. Often unrepeatable now, due to the un-PC nature of the character. This episode was transmitted on 26/12/66.

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• Till
• Death
• Us
• Do
• Part
• Christmas
• 1966
• Alf
• Garnett
• Rita
• Mike
• Else
• Warren
• Mitchell
• Dancy
• Nicholls
• Una
• Stubbs
• Anthony
• Booth

[leeking007]

I am afraid that Alf and his family will never be replaced, I grew up watching this show and the mould has been broken , What a fantastically funny actor.

[squirrelandgman71]

Fantastic, i dont agree with everything alf says but i love him.

[bluejeckett]

@JCS2059 well wouldu care to name a few american shows that Uk cloned? cos to my mind its all beenthe other way. But feel free to giveme examples, if you had them surely youd just say them.

[JCS2059]

@bluejeckett RWSB1793. 04/02/15/2012 A.D. AMERICANS LACK ORIGINALITY,HUH? THE UK DOESNT CLONE SHOWS,HUH? A FEW AMERICAN SHOWS DID INDEED INSPIRE AT LEAST A HANDFUL OF BRITISH SHOWS.DONT BELIEVE IT? CHECK OUT TELEVISION HISTORY IN ITS ENTIRETY.IN THE MEANTIME-GO AND SHIT IN YOUR FUCKING UNDERWEAR!

[shmuli9]

@birdandthe No, they won't.... :-(  You do see them occasionally in the US and Canada, though.

[shmuli9]

This is one of the few shows where I think the remake ("All in the Family") was better than the original, but the original certainly wasn't bad.

[birdandthe]

absolute genius !!! the bbc should replay them on saturday eve but they wont the spineless jellyfish

[Strawberry7Lynn]

Great show. The sound's a bit low on this cut, though

[bluejeckett]

well u wouldnt know it at the rate they rip UK stuff off, and I hardly think u can compare a country the size of Britain to American, obvioulsy Americans output is going to dwarf the Uk so that point is rather obvious

[bluejeckett]

@gymnastix indeed I have seen some of those, and note u dont see England cloning them, we leave them to it and come up with our own ideas

[bluejeckett]

@gymnastix Yes and note how just about all those shows u mention are gameshow franchaises, we arent talking about gameshows, we;re talking about scripted shows, we dont need to rely on America for ideas mainly cos they never have any worth ripping off theyre too busy cloning ours

[gymnastix]

@bluejeckett The amount of British television adapted for American TV is a pittance compared with the amount of original American TV programming and American TV programming syndicated internationally.