Ray Galton
Writer who with his collaborator Alan Simpson created Steptoe & Son and Hancock's Half Hour.
Works
Hancock's Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Release Date1956-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd
Episode Count63
Vote Count7
The Unforgettable Spike Milligan
A documentary about Spike Milligan
Release Date2010-12-23
Charactersd Himself
When Steptoe Met Son
The difficult off-screen relationship between actors Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell who grew to hate one another during their years on screen. It charts their rise to fame with 'Steptoe and Son' in the early 60's, to their final falling out during an Australian stage show in the late 70's.
Release Date2002-08-20
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock.
Release Date1985-04-26
Charactersd Self
The Unforgettable Sid James
A profile of the comedy actor, best known for starring in many films of the Carry On franchise, with contributions from family, friends, co-stars and fans. The programme looks at his early life in South Africa, his start in films as a heavy in 1940s and 1950s crime thrillers, and his big break appearing in Hancock's Half Hour on radio and TV.
Release Date2000-12-05
Charactersd Self
Look at Life: Funny Business Is No Joke
A peek behind the scenes at the business of the comedian and how it is being expanded for film and television.
Release Date1967-01-01
Charactersd Self
Seriously Seeking Sid
A study of the life and career of the actor Sid James, best known for the long-running Carry On series of bawdy British film comedies.
Release Date1993-01-01
Charactersd Self
Steptoe and Son
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.
Release Date1962-01-05
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count33
Spooner's Patch
Comedy set in a small Police Station filled with self serving corrupt coppers!
Release Date1979-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count18
Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Release Date1961-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count2
Citizen James
Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James and Sydney Tafler with Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser appearing in early episodes. It was initially written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson, who based the characters very much on the "Sidney Balmoral James" and "Bill Kerr, the dim-witted Australian" roles that they had played in Hancock's Half Hour. The first series was set around 'Charlie's Nosh Bar', a cafe in Soho, and centred around Sid's get-rich-quick schemes. He is helped by "Billy the Kerr" and quite often frustrated by the local bookmaker Albert Welshman. Liz Fraser played Sid's long-suffering girlfriend who has been waiting for seven years for Sid to set the date. Changes were made to the format after the first series. Sid James' character was changed to be something of a people's champion, campaigning for social justice. Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser departed and Sidney Tafler played a different character: Charlie Davenport. The location switched from Soho to Sid and Charlie sharing a house. Later episodes were written by then Morecambe & Wise writers Sid Green and Dick Hills.
Release Date1960-11-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's
Release Date1996-01-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count14
Vote Count1
Fleksnes fataliteter
Fleksnes Fataliteter, better known by its shortened title Fleksnes, was a Norwegian television comedy series produced between 1972 and 2002, based on Galton and Simpson's scripts for the British series Hancock's Half Hour.
Release Date1972-11-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count34
Vote Count7
Sanford and Son
The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
Release Date1972-01-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count90
Lost Sitcoms
British classic Lost Sitcoms, recreated by the BBC, from shows: Hancock’s Half Hour, Steptoe And Son and Till Death Us Do Part - each with a brand new stellar cast
Release Date2016-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Albert och Herbert på Lisebergsteatern
Release Date1981-12-26
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Series Creator
Episode Count2
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
Seven Hilariously comic situations from the fertile imaginations of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Release Date1977-02-17
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
The Wrong Arm of the Law
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Release Date1963-03-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count41
The Rebel
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Release Date1961-03-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count26
Dawson's Weekly
Release Date1975-06-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Steptoe & Son
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
Release Date1972-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count34
Loot
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
Release Date1970-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count16
Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Release Date1973-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count31
The Bargee
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.
Release Date1964-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
Den siste Fleksnes
Den siste Fleksnes (English: The last Fleksnes) is a 1974 Norwegian comedy film directed by Bo Hermansson, starring Rolv Wesenlund and Aud Schønemann. The film is based on the television sitcom Fleksnes Fataliteter.Marve Fleksnes (Wesenlund) lives a comfortable life with his mother (Schønemann), but misses a woman in his life. He is afraid he might become the last Fleksnes. His mother enrols him in a charm school, where he excels. At the same time, a young lady moves into the apartment across the hall.
Release Date1974-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count9
Le Petomane
The incredibly true story of the legendary French entertainer Joseph Pujol, who performed impersonations with his self-described 'elastic anus' and a surfeit of wind.
Release Date1979-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
The Spy with a Cold Nose
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British intelligence must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.
Release Date1966-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Up the Chastity Belt
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...
Release Date1972-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count21
Det Bästa med Albert & Herbert
Swedish version of the British SitCom Steptoe and Son: Starring: Sten-Åke Cederhök, Tomas von Brömssen
Release Date2005-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Sommarkvetter
Comedy with Sten-Åke Cederhök and Tomas von Brömssen at the Lisebergsteatern in Gothenburg, featuring scrap dealers Albert and Herbert, a waiter with rabbit teeth and a shack maid with an incomprehensible village dialect.
Release Date1988-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Camping
Per is a traveling man who makes a living setting up new campsites—financed by a rather clueless telephone company and a gawking power plant. Søren has been in prison for eight years for bank robbery—but now he is free and ready to retrieve the buried money. To his great despair, he sees the campsite right where the loot is buried. Together with his greedy girlfriend and her four children, he tries to come up with a plan – but it will take a lot of imagination to get hold of the money.
Release Date1990-02-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall
A one-off special performance by Tony Hancock of his stand-up comedy act (which rarely changed), at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
Release Date1966-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Never Talk to Strangers
Basil Puddifoot (played by Harry H. Corbett) has moved to London for work and meets Olive Bunclark (Rosemary Leach) in his boarding house. With the help of a miss-dialed telephone number they get to know each other in this sincere comedy from Galton and Simpson.
Release Date1969-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Scrap Merchants
Albert and Herbert Hansen love each other, in the way that fathers and sons usually do. They argue and bicker, but they don't take it too seriously. If it weren't for one particular thing, they could have continued indefinitely as companions and friends. But in the distance, wedding bells are ringing.
Release Date1975-08-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter