ABSTRACT
Galton and Simpson's «Steptoe and Son" There have been one or two surprises in the new series of Steptoe and Son (BBC-1). There was a by-election in which, un surprisingly, Harold worked for Labour and Albert for the Tories. There were the usual anguished arguments and manoeuvres. But then, for once, Harold won. He succeeded in wrecking his father's reception of the Tory top brass: a bucket of whitewash set in the lavatory for Heath found almost as acceptable a target in a double-barrelled man from Central Office. Or again: they were trying to move house, into middle suburbia. The prospective neighbours raised £500 to buy them off, and Albert beat them up to £750, against protests by Harold that he was selling his class. Yet they then worked together for once, with real enjoyment, on a prospective move into upper suburbia, in the expectation of an even higher bribe to keep away.
