When Steptoe Met Son (2002)
August 20, 2002Release Date
When Steptoe Met Son (2002)
August 20, 2002Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Ray Galton
Self

Harry H. Corbett
Harold Steptoe

Alan Simpson
Self

John Junkin
Self

Wilfrid Brambell
Albert Steptoe

Freddie Hancock
Self

Matthew Gravelle
Self

David Barrie
Producer / Director

Jeremy Bugler
Executive Producer

Madoc Roberts
Editor

Eleanor Brocklehurst
Associate Producer

David Sinclair
Composer
Details.
Wiki.
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 long-running 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 by traditional British society and, until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 came into force in England and Wales, illegal, and was thus driven underground. The documentary went on to claim that during an ill-fated final tour of Australia the already strained relationship between Corbett and Brambell finally broke down for good.