Steptoe and Son on Drama
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Drama are currently showing Series 3 of S&S every night at 6pm
This was when the show was still being made in black and white. It makes a change watching these episodes rather than the colour ones that turn up all the time on GOLD
This was when the show was still being made in black and white. It makes a change watching these episodes rather than the colour ones that turn up all the time on GOLD
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Shame it replaced Terry and June.
Feels a bit odd watching a B&W series at 6pm. Takes me back to when BBC2 used to show B&W comedy at that time.
BBC2 showed some episodes of Hancock's Half Hour in that slot some time in the mid to late 90s
Should have shown the last episode of Terry and June, could have started this day after.
It's got a 40 minute slot, god knows how many ad breaks that will make.
Unlike modern US sit-coms with 2 minute scenes and a 22 minute running time, many episodes of S&S are 28 minute 2 handers, ad breaks will mess up the dramatic tension.
I thought they had ??
My apologies, they did, i was thinking of Ever Decreasing Circles, they are showing all that on Drama, apart from the very last Episode, called 'Moving On'.
I thought they showed every episode of Terry & June. Was it replaced before they aired every ep?
They most probably did show all the episodes, but I only caught the last few and was looking forward to seeing more if they were on a repeat cycle.
My evening was going to be 'Terry and June', then have a bath while 'Bread' was on, then watch 'Ever Decreasing Circles'.
But now I'll have to watch the afternoon version of 'Ever Decreasing Circles' instead.
Ah, I see. Yes they did show every episode. Hopefully they will repeat them from the start (as they usually do)
Good line up you have there.
I watch more hours on the Drama channel than I do on the so called main channels.
I have seen some of the b/w episodes before but I'd never seen the one where Harold bought a load of coffins
Go onto Youtube and find the episode called "T.B. Or Not T.B."
There is a VERY unPC sequence in that one !
A word beginning with W !
What would he make of London today?
Only one ad break halfway through I think
Yes and to be honest they are slotted in quite sensitively and don't interfere with the thread of the story
Thoroughly enjoying them as I've not seen some of these episodes for years
A lot of British shows that were made for the BBC in the 60s were made with a fade-out about halfway through the episode so ad breaks could be inserted by commercial networks from abroad who bought the rights to show the programme in question
I know the last Hancock series for the Beeb had that fade-out and was 24 minutes rather than 29.
Amen, An absolute classic, seminal even!