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Harold is soaked through, tired, and fed up on being a rag and bone man, he wants more, he wants to get a diploma, and have a brighter future.

Some slick dialogue, there's the usual conflict between the two, at times Albert is at his most condescending, and unusually there's a bit more slapstick here than we usually see.

It's funny, this episode, 1962 talks about the common market, and the possibility of a tunnel, watching this today, and we've just left it, after all the turmoil and torment of Brexit, oh for hindsight. People forget that it all started off as a market designed for trade.

The acting from the pair of them, as always is incredible, they are tremendous, even in these early years, they seemed to gel instantly.

Funny, 7/10.

Business is slack once again for Steptoe and son. Harold has been coming home empty. Albert criticises him for having no go. Not able to talk to potential customers to part with goods.

Albert is upset that Harold has purchased a correspondence course on electronics. He hopes to be a television repairman once he gets his diploma. It could be his way into money and out of the house.

That leaves Albert to go out and be a rag and bone man. Only Albert too comes home empty handed.

While Harold struggles with the electronics course. Albert then has a go, he manages to get the television working.

I liked how Albert had a collection of old spectacles as he tries to read harrold's course book. He just needed to find the right prescription.

Although made in the early 1960s. Harold is talking about the Common Market. Which Britain would join 10 years later and exit a few more decades afterwards.