"What U K TV series about a father and son, rag and bone men, was the basis for the U S TV series ""Sandford and Son""?"
Rag-and-bone man 1978, many having moved into the scrap metal trade. Local merchants blamed several factors, including demographic changes, for the decline of their industry. A newspaper report of 1965 estimates that in London, only a "few hundred" rag-and-bone men remained, possibly due to competition from more specialised trades such as corporation dustmen, and pressure from property developers to build on rag merchants' premises. Despite the BBC's popular TV comedy "Steptoe and Son", which helped maintain the rag-and-bone man's status in English folklore, by the 1980s they were mostly gone. Lately, rising scrap metal prices have prompted their return, although most drive
Sorrell and Son (TV series) him. Captain Sorrell's years of devotion and sacrifice for his son come to fruition years in the future. Writing for "The Los Angeles Times", Terry Atkinson called the series "a tolerable drama about some very likable people", but with the caveat; "These people are too likable--unrealistically caring, kind and resigned. Or, in rare cases when someone less than a saint shows up, he or she flaunts the transparently despicable characteristics of a Snidely Whiplash. Everyone's either a dear old soul or a scoundrel." He summarized it as "mildly engrossing fare." Sorrell and Son (TV series) Sorrell and Son is a