The Curse of Steptoe is a television play which was first broadcast on 19 March 2008 on BBC Four as part of a season of dramas about television personalities. It stars Jason Isaacs as Harry H. Corbett and Phil 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.