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1. City '68 (1967–1968)

60 min | Drama

Forward thinking anthology of dramas about the emerging problems of a city.

Stars: Richard Hurndall, Geoffrey Palmer, John Welsh, Wensley Pithey

Votes: 8

2. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Desperate Hours (1972)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

It's a cold winter day and the Steptoes are reduced to putting pfennigs in the meter. They are visited by two escaped convicts, elderly Frank and the younger Johnny. When Johnny denounces ... See full summary »

Director: John Howard Davies | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Leonard Rossiter, J.G. Devlin

Votes: 126

3. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Upstairs, Downstairs, Upstairs, Downstairs (1974)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Albert has done his back in and the doctor orders bed-rest since it's not serious enough to warrant hospital admission. Harold is run ragged, climbing up and down the stairs to wait on him ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Argent | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Robert James

Votes: 96

4. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Divided We Stand (1972)

TV-PG | 28 min | Comedy

Harold wants to re-decorate but cannot agree on a colour scheme with his father so they agree to put a partition down the living room and have their own space on either side. There is even ... See full summary »

Director: David Croft | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell

Votes: 118

5. Theatre Night (1957–1961)

45 min | Drama

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Evelyn Laye, Dora Bryan, Hugh Williams

Votes: 69

6. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Men of Letters (1972)

TV-PG | 28 min | Comedy

The vicar calls, asking for an article on rag and bone men for the church magazine's centenary edition. Both Steptoe and Son want to write it but Harold wins the toss and, foreseeing a ... See full summary »

Director: John Howard Davies | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Anthony Sharp

Votes: 87

7. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: A Perfect Christmas (1974)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy

Harold wants to go to Switzerland for Christmas whilst Albert, as usual, prefers Bognor, though he is persuaded to go provided they sail, rather than fly. However he has no passport and ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Argent | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Leon Eagles

Votes: 88

8. Zero One (1962–1965)

30 min | Drama

Television series about International Air Security, whose call sign is "Zero One".

Stars: Nigel Patrick, William Smith, Katya Douglas, Hugh McDermott

Votes: 61

9. Police Surgeon (1960)

30 min | Drama

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Stars: Ian Hendry, John Warwick, Howard Daley, Blaise Wyndham

Votes: 17

10. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Oh, What a Beautiful Mourning (1972)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

When Albert's brother George dies it's a surprise to Harold who never knew he existed. The greedy relatives turn up for the funeral, all hoping to be left something - even Albert wants the ... See full summary »

Director: John Howard Davies | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, George A. Cooper, Mollie Sugden

Votes: 94

11. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: A Star Is Born (1972)

TV-PG | Comedy

Harold has joined an amateur dramatics group who use the Steptoe house as a rehearsal room for their play set in Afghanistan during the days of the Raj. Initially mistrustful of actors ... See full summary »

Director: John Howard Davies | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Trevor Bannister, Margaret Nolan

Votes: 86

12. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Live Now, P.A.Y.E. Later (1972)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

When a tax inspector calls to investigate Albert's claim for an allowance for his - long dead - wife, Harold gets him drunk and he agrees to giving 'her' a back-dated pension, though Albert... See full summary »

Director: John Howard Davies | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Colin Gordon, Edwin Apps

Votes: 76

13. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Without Prejudice (1970)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Harold wants to move up in the world so he and a reluctant Albert go to view a suburban semi-detached house. When the local Residents' Association gets to hear that two rag and bone men are... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Gerald Flood, Norman Bird

Votes: 58

14. Tales of Mystery (1961–1963)

30 min | Fantasy

Supernatural drama series adapted from the short stories of Algernon Blackwood.

Stars: John Laurie, Ann Castle, Michael Aldridge, John Wood

Votes: 19

15. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955–1960)
Episode: The Genius (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Nicodemus, a master mathematician, seeks entrance to the Abbey of Southwall to escape Prince John - who is anxious to use the scholar's genius to construct a deadly weapon. Refused entrance, Nicodemus seeks refuge in Sherwood.

Director: Peter Seabourne | Stars: Richard Greene, Alexander Gauge, Harry H. Corbett, Archie Duncan

Votes: 23

16. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Any Old Iron? (1970)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Timothy Stanhope, an elderly antique dealer, comes to the Steptoes' yard. He is a cultured man and Harold sees the opportunity to make a friend with whom he can converse about the finer ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Richard Hurndall, Valerie Bell

Votes: 74

17. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Come Dancing (1970)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Harold wants to win the affections of a woman called Jean who is a great fan of ballroom dancing but is pessimistic because he has two left feet. Albert, on the other hand, was once very ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Tony Melody

Votes: 71

18. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Full House (1963)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Albert is unhappy when Harold brings three new friends round to play cards, suspecting, rightly, that they are cheats taking advantage of Harold's gullibility. So he sends Harold out to buy... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Dudley Foster, Jack Rodney

Votes: 65

19. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Porn Yesterday (1974)

TV-PG | 28 min | Comedy

Harold is excited to have found an old What the Butler Saw machine, complete with film reel. Unfortunately the nude couple in the film, made in the 1920s, are Albert and his sister-in-law, ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Argent | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Anthony Sharp, Dorothy Frere

Votes: 73

20. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Bath (1963)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Harold's plan for a bathroom upsets Albert.

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Yootha Joyce, Marjie Lawrence

Votes: 65

21. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Two's Company (1970)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Harold is predictably displeased when Albert announces his intention to marry again, but he is shocked when he sees that his prospective stepmother, Daphne, is a woman he went out with ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Jean Kent

Votes: 54

22. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Three Feathers (1970)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Having rescued Albert who's got tied up in knots doing yoga, Harold crows over his latest purchase, a Regency commode bought for seven pounds from a woman who wanted rid of it. Then her ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, John Arnatt, John Bailey

Votes: 49

23. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Pot Black (1970)

TV-PG | 31 min | Comedy

After suffering the results of his father's cooking, which involves crimping pie crust with false teeth, Harold shows off his new purchase, a huge snooker table, so big it eventually ends ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, George Tovey

Votes: 66

24. Galton and Simpson Comedy (1969)

30 min | Comedy

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Stars: Leslie Phillips, Stratford Johns, Milo O'Shea, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 21

25. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Robbery with Violence (1970)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Albert accidentally knocks over Harold's china cabinet, smashing its contents. Scared to face his son he hides the broken pieces along with other items, knocks himself unconscious and ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Dudley Foster, Edward Evans

Votes: 58

26. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Sunday for Seven Days (1964)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

Steptoe and Son decide to go to the movies, but are split over which film to see. Harold wants to see Fellini's '8½ (1963)', while Albert prefers Nudes of 1964.

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Michael Brennan, Michael Stainton

Votes: 62

27. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Those Magnificent Men and Their Heating Machines (1965)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Harold decides that the house needs a central heating system and, having got some radiators on his round, he will plumb it in himself. The result is a disaster as the pipes are visible ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 61

28. Whodunnit? (1972–1978)

45 min | Family, Game-Show, Mystery

British game show in which celebrity panelists were shown a dramatised murder and had to guess the identity of the killer or killers from the clues presented.

Stars: Jon Pertwee, Patrick Mower, Anouska Hempel, Liza Goddard

Votes: 138

29. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)

60 min | Drama

Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".

Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown

Votes: 67

30. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: And So to Bed (1974)

TV-PG | 31 min | Comedy

Harold invites convict's wife Marcia Wigley back for sex and they have to wait until Albert goes to bed. Harold's bed collapses after Marcia has fled pursued by a bed bug. He goes to the ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Argent | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Lynn Farleigh, Angus MacKay

Votes: 70

31. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Pilgrim's Progress (1965)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Albert, wearing his medals from World War One and accompanied by Harold, is on a plane going to re-visit his former battle-fields. When an American passenger admires Albert's medals, he ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Alan Gifford, Frank Thornton

Votes: 48

32. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Party (1973)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy

Albert is looking forward to another family Christmas but Harold wants to go to Majorca and put his father in a home for the duration. When Albert pulls his customary stunt and feigns ... See full summary »

Director: Graeme Muir | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Frank Thornton, Arnold Diamond

Votes: 62

33. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Piano (1962)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Harold has the offer of a piano, which its owner is selling cheap. Unfortunately it's in a top floor flat and Harold has to get Albert to help move it downstairs. Albert is incompetent and ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Brian Oulton, Roger Avon

Votes: 68

34. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Loathe Story (1972)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

After being beaten at badminton by his father, who announces his desire to join the local tennis club, Harold tries to kill him whilst sleep-walking. A visit to a psychiatrist reveals ... See full summary »

Director: John Howard Davies | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Raymond Huntley, Georgina Cookson

Votes: 77

35. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard (1974)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Albert comes in late one night having got involved with séances and local medium Madame Fontana, who communicates with the dead via her spirit guide Geronimo. Harold is sceptical and messes... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Argent | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Patricia Routledge, Gwen Nelson

Votes: 79

36. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Bird (1962)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Harold has met a woman called Roxanne, who is coming round to the Steptoes' house for a meal. Albert is not happy. Suppose she and Harold get together and leave him. Roxanne is an hour late... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Valerie Bell

Votes: 74

37. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Holiday (1962)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Albert wants to go to Bognor Regis on holiday - the same resort they have always been to but Harold fancies something more exotic, a holiday abroad, skiing perhaps. Albert can see no virtue... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Colin Gordon, Charlie Bird

Votes: 56

38. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Lead Man Cometh (1964)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy

Harold and Albert are offered lead by Welsh Hughie a dodgy sort of character who claims to have got it legitimately from a local church. Albert is suspicious but they decide to buy the lead... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Leonard Rossiter, Bill Maxam

Votes: 62

39. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)

TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy

British sitcom about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in London. The intergenerational divide between the miserly Steptoe and his ambitious son results in comedy, drama, and tragedy.

Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Frank Thornton, Tim Buckland

Votes: 3,430

40. The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.

Stars: John Wilder, George Hilsdon, Bernard Lee, Stanley Morgan

Votes: 199

41. The Eamonn Andrews Show (1964–1969)

Talk-Show

A 45-minute late-night chat and music program from ABC hosted by the genial Irishman in which a collection of guests, some daring, some downright boring, had Eamonn's forehead in an even greater lather than usual.

Stars: Eamonn Andrews, Spike Milligan, Sandie Shaw, Peter Cook

Votes: 57

42. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: And Afterwards at... (1965)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Harold almost ties the knot, but his bride gets cold feet, much to the joy of Albert.

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, George A. Cooper, Rose Hill

Votes: 53

43. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Crossed Swords (1965)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Harold picks up a porcelain figurine, which an antique dealer authenticates as being genuine Meissen and offers two-hundred and fifty pounds for it. Harold decides he would get a better ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Derek Nimmo, Basil Dignam

Votes: 55

44. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: Is That Your Horse Outside (1963)

TV-PG | 31 min | Comedy

Harold meets and falls for Dorothia, a wealthy woman who has been separated from her husband for five years. He thinks they have a future together. His father thinks that she is merely ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Patricia Haines, Richard Shaw

Votes: 57

45. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Lodger (1964)

TV-PG | 25 min | Comedy

When Albert advertises for a lodger, selling the room as being in a mews flat, this is too much for Harold, who gets a new job in removals and moves out of the house in Oil Drum Lane. ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Walter Swash

Votes: 55

46. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Siege of Steptoe Street (1965)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy

Due to numerous bills, including for delicacies Harold bought on tick from Mr. Stacey the butcher, the Steptoes find themselves besieged by all the people to whom they owe money plus ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Robert Dorning, Lane Meddick

Votes: 58

47. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: The Stepmother (1963)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Harold is not happy when Albert announces that he intends to marry widowed sweet-shop owner Emma Marshall, especially as he will be kicked out of the house if the wedding goes ahead. When ... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Joan Newell

Votes: 58

48. Steptoe and Son (1962–1974)
Episode: A Death in the Family (1970)

TV-PG | 31 min | Comedy

When Hercules the horse dies Albert takes to his bed. Harold buys another horse which he names Samson, but then this horse also appears to fall ill. When Albert gets up to tend to the horse... See full summary »

Director: Duncan Wood | Stars: Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 62

49. The Goodies (1970–1982)

30 min | Comedy

The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."

Stars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Corbet Woodall

Votes: 1,887

50. The Bruce Forsyth Show (1965–1969)

Mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time-honoured tradition, ABC's The Bruce Forsyth Show focussed on laughter, glamour and big name guests, including Frankie Howerd, Cilla Black, ... See full summary »

Stars: Bruce Forsyth, Jenny Lee Wright, Aleta Morrison, Ann Hamilton

Votes: 24