They won't be allowed to make something like this today. For a start Upton Park does not exist. Knocked down a few years ago to make way for a housing estate.
Alf dreams of his grandson playing for West Ham one day. He even has a reverie of the team turning out by royal appointment. There are guest appearances from the likes of Bobby Moore wearing Union Jack shorts. (Unusually for an England football captain, Moore was a Labour supporter.)
I can only assume Johnny Speight must have been one eccentric character. I realise it was not unusual for mothers to leave babies in a pram outside the shop in those days.
However Alf whisks the baby away to go and watch football while Else and Rita are inside the store. The distraught acting from Una Stubbs is superb but this is a sitcom!
Alf should had been locked up not just locked out of the house.
It is also notable that the show still had the view of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson as a great love story. He was still alive when the show was made. It was only in the 1990s the extent of Duke of Windsor Nazi sympathies were revealed.
Alf dreams of his grandson playing for West Ham one day. He even has a reverie of the team turning out by royal appointment. There are guest appearances from the likes of Bobby Moore wearing Union Jack shorts. (Unusually for an England football captain, Moore was a Labour supporter.)
I can only assume Johnny Speight must have been one eccentric character. I realise it was not unusual for mothers to leave babies in a pram outside the shop in those days.
However Alf whisks the baby away to go and watch football while Else and Rita are inside the store. The distraught acting from Una Stubbs is superb but this is a sitcom!
Alf should had been locked up not just locked out of the house.
It is also notable that the show still had the view of King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson as a great love story. He was still alive when the show was made. It was only in the 1990s the extent of Duke of Windsor Nazi sympathies were revealed.
