Alan Simpson: Steptoe And Son Writer Dies At 87

mikey4444 | 15:52 Wed 08th Feb 2017 | ChatterBank

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38906672

I am still listening Hancock and Steptoe, and they are as funny as they were 40-50 years ago.

RIP Alan !

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Mamyalynne

RIP Alan.

Lie-in King

A superb writer & a sad loss.

RIP Alan.

Peter Pedant

of Galton and SImpson

wrote zillions of successful sit coms
Harry WOrth - poss are you being served ....

cupid04

My dad had the Hancock's 'Blood donor' on vinyl. I used to love it. It was years before I saw it on the telly.

Rip Alan.

andy-hughes

Same here cupid! It had 'The Test Pilot' on the other side.

I am really enjoying Steptoe re-runs, the early ones are just basically pure theatre - twenty-five minutes shot on one steady-cam on one location with no edits.

I love the way Wilfred Bramble could express so much with that wonderfully mobile face of his, from nasty snarling to fearful pathos in a nano-second, that was what good tv acting was all about.

Patsy33

Such a clever writer. RIP

Buenchico

Alan Simpson appeared in almost all of the early radio episodes of Hancock's Half Hour but without a credit for his acting role.

He played the man with a deadpan voice who turned up nearly every week for TH to chat to during a break in the action. That was often one of the funniest bits of each show, especially when one of them fluffed a line and a bit of ad-libbing was called for.