Who wrote Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son
Steptoe and Son Davis as Wilfrid Brambell. The drama is based upon the actors' on-and-off-screen relationship during the making of the BBC sitcom "Steptoe and Son", and is based on interviews with colleagues, friends and family of the actors, and the "Steptoe" writers, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The screenplay was written by Brian Fillis, also responsible for the similarly themed 2006 drama "Fear of Fanny", which is about television personality Fanny Cradock off-screen. The 66-minute film is directed by Michael Samuels and produced by Ben Bickerton. Both "When Steptoe Met Son" and "The Curse of Steptoe" were considered inaccurate by writers Galton
Galton and Simpson Hancock for a time. After their association with Hancock had ended, they wrote a series of "Comedy Playhouse" (1961–62), ten one-off half-hour plays for the BBC. One play in the series, "The Offer", was well received, and from this emerged "Steptoe and Son" (1962–74), about two rag and bone men, father and son, who live together in a squalid house in West London. This was the basis for the American series "Sanford and Son" and the Swedish series "Albert & Herbert". Their comedy is characterised by a bleak and somewhat fatalistic tone. "Steptoe and Son" in particular is, at times,