Sitcom · 1970s
Steptoe and Son
The Party
Harold's Majorca dream collapses, so it is a Christmas party in the yard.
Content note: Dated language and attitudes of the 1970s, and some rude humour
BBC One
1973
First shown 24 Dec 1973
- First shown
- 24 December 1973
- Channel
- BBC One
- Runtime
- 46 mins
- Genre
- Sitcom
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Harold has a Christmas holiday in sunny Majorca all lined up. Then it is cancelled, and a very put-out Harold decides that if he cannot go abroad, the party will come to him. Unfortunately for the guest list, chickenpox has other ideas. Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett are at full tilt in the first of only two Steptoe Christmas specials, with Frank Thornton among the visitors. It is classic Galton and Simpson: sharp, bickering and quietly sad. A product of its time, so expect some language you would not hear on telly today, but a proper slice of Christmas Eve 1973.
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