"Till Death Us Do Part" - Five Best Moments
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Johnny Speight's classic sitcom satirised the less acceptable aspects of working-class culture and the growing generation gap, creating a sea change in TV comedy that influenced just about every sitcom that followed. As relevant today as when first transmitted, Speight's liberal attitude to comedy shone a light on aspects of our national character.
Though all colour episodes exist, many early black and white episodes were wiped decades ago. The recovery of the episode Intolerance, however, alongside off-air audio recordings made on original transmission allow us to present a near-complete run of the series from beginning to end.
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He was right about top of the pops with J.Saville !
Memories of childhood watching my dad roar with laughter.. brilliant entertainment
Roar racistly, or did he actually get what was being made fun of?
Another excellent programme was the "Misfit" excellent for its time...
Lefties see only in black and white.
After he had 16 pints and kicked ur mums head in?
Lov ,Yer !
What a superb actor Warren Mitchell was and such a brilliant script writer Johnny Speight.
An absolute legend still funny of this day ❤️🤣✌️
Warren & Johnny would understand but sometimes despair at how Alf was laughed with and not at by certain viewers. As Warren was the complete opposite of Alf & just summed him up as a shouter. When Johnny died , Warren quite rightly decided not to do Alf anymore.
He also played Shakespeare . A great actor . Always going down the booooooozer !
RIP Una Stubbs. Such a beautiful and talented actor. Fancied the pants off her truth be told. Such a lovely person too.
Read that there was a heated discussion over Alf calling Else a cow, caused Una to intervene with ,’It’s only a silly moo cow!!!’.....Thus the catchphrase was born....R.I.P.
snap, me too.
What about the scarse git Shirley Temple tony booth.
The irony of Warren Mitchell was that he was completely unlike this in real life. He was a sophisticated intellectual quite capable of other character roles. He was an outstanding actor.
its called acting.
As was Carroll O'Connor vs, Archie Bunker.
Malcolm Abram was he. Typecast because of this?
@James Henderson Oh no, not another idiot who sees racism everywhere. Alf Garnet was an ignorant, misogynistic racist bigot and was always made to look like the idiot he was in ever programme. It was very funny and there was absolutely nothing racist about it.
@James Henderson The point of the programme was to satire/ridicule racism, not pander to it. Warren Mtchel and Johnny Speight (the writer) were both perfectly clear when asked about this. Speight once said "I didn't create Alf Garnett. Society created him. I just reported him. I'm a grass" The fact that many bigots saw Garnett as a hero is a sad reflection on them and not the creators of the show.
"that middle aged, peroxide, albino, clunk click ponce". I can't breathe 🤣🤣🤣
Spot on about the Arch Paedophile
Absolutely brilliant writing by Johnny Speight thee way he brings Mary Whitehouse into it, Alf praising her whilst in reality she wanted Alf banned.
Hard to believe the four main characters are all now passed on, just classic comedy in its day.
? They all died in their 80s, not that difficult to believe
Remember watching this show. It was brilliant. Nothing like it today on TV.
Maybe,however this show was the inspiration for the American sitcom All in the Family.
Bottom, comes pretty close.
The long suffering Mrs. Garnet perfected the art of passive aggression long before anyone invented the term.
The term came round in WW2
@@c0brah2OO2 ? did it? I didn't realise it was that old.
@@bhangrafan4480 yh I found it really interesting especially since I just learnt that today and saw your comment today as well.
@@c0brah2OO2 I looked it up after what you said, and it seems it was the US Army. In the British Army they had a similar term, "dumb insolence" which was actually a punishable offence.
@@bhangrafan4480 that’s very curious thank you for sharing that. I wonder what other terms came from the era now, I’ll have to go on a research mission lol. Btw I’m the only person my age I know that likes this show and all in the family.
Absolutely brilliant comedy, so glad I grew up watching comedies like this. No pc great days.
@THE QUIET MAN 1958 I watch dvd Are you being served, on the buses, any carry on films. Brill 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I feel sorry for the people of today they don't know where they come from with comedies like this shaped us
Pc was a thing in the 70s you know?
@@daniellarkins3849 I know I am getting on a bit but my memory says different otherwise comedy like this would never have been allowed. 😅😅
@@dianerogers8805 since your perspective seems limited. I just would like to add since i don't watch much TV, that here in the U.S there are plenty of shows that you lament as politically incorrect that are shown in reruns. Being American we don't have a history of this kinds of shows with the exception of Married with children and mostly animated stuff loke the Simpsons,family guy and south park. Aside from a few loud mouths there are plenty of people who can put things in proper context then you give credit for. I for one am very far left and i can decipher between what is ment to be offence and what isn't,so can others like me
British Comedy at it's Best, just saying from Glasgow 😊🇬🇧👍😎
I remember years back my mother in law laughing so hard when Alf made the Ken Dodd comment ..her teeth fell out.
Love this comment 💞🤣😂🤣💞
@"'Ere she comes, Zola Budd" in In Sickness and in Health was as good too. Dandy was a really fine comedy actress, dead pan with immaculate timing.
Love your comment it was funny though
How tickled she was!!!
"That middle aged, peroxide, albino, clunk click ponce"!!!
😂😂😂
Jimmy Saville
Speight was right on the mark with that line wasn't he, just exchange the P with an N for the last word.
Did Johnny Speight know something we didn't?
Had Saville well sussed..
Got that right
Dandy Nichols was the star, her timing was perfect, she was a lovely person.
Warren said when she died that was it as she couldn’t ever be replaced same as John Cleese about the Major !! He was vital to the show so when he went the show went .
Kathy Burke!
Oh yeah, and Anthony Hopkins is a nice guy? After all you've seen? Are you mad?
Well not true with comedy it carried on for a few series called Sickness in Health.
The days of this type of comedy are, sadly, long gone! Alf Garnett RIP.
Are they? Comedy is more adventurous now.
In what way?
@@DaveInBridport spoilt by political correctness and the left wing offended brigade
@@wodens-hitman1552 Name me one present day comic stiffled by PC.
That’s because the comedy of that day was a commentary on the political and social aspects of the changing world they lived in. Alf Garnett was a sly dig on the racism that existed in that day. I remember watching it and only years later realising how far ahead of its time it was. That’s what made it a classic!
The siilly moo was absolutely sensational.
Without her Alf could never be Alf
Dandy Nichols was perfect for the role of Alf's wife. Another great actress.
I was chatting with my mum about this show she told me Dandy Nichols and Warren never got on in real life.
@@danw1374 yes I heard that a long time ago
50 years ahead of his time. Alf Garnett predicts video on demand.
The BBC allowed that as back then it had every right to see itself as totally unaccountable and invincible.
I think the law then was pay the BBC just by owning a television - even if it was in the attic.
Shops would pass your details to them if you bought a new television.
@@eddieingalls534 Asda used to get fines cos they wouldn't collect and pass on information on people who bought a telly off them.
Who is watching these great shows today
Me for one. Modern comedy is non existent.
That was a brilliant series, the lovely Warren Mitchell.
Well !!! He was right about Jimmy Saville, if nothing else.
Ann TwoShoes Perhaps he knew then what we all know now!
Did the writer knew what was going on with Saville ?
He was right about everything.
@@123bwlch It's very likely that rumours about savile were going around at the time this was made. In fact his reputation went back to when he was a DJ in Leeds way back in the 1950s.
TV Licences.
There's a German version of this series. Not a dub, but a full blown spin-off, with German actors, German jokes and German themes. It's called "Ein Herz und eine Seele" (literally: One Heart and One Soul") and has since become a staple of German television. Alf Garnett became Alfred Tetzlaff, aka "Ekel Alfred" (Nasty Alfred), a narrow minded, conservative tyrant, who's modeled after Adolf Hitler. His daughter dates a boy from the GDR (It was the 70s after all) and he always butts heads with him, about themes like the chancellor (at that time, a man from the socialdemocratic party) or how everything was better when he was in the Wehrmacht. The most iconic episode of the show is undoubtedly "Der Sylvesterpunsch" (The New Year's Eve punch), where Alfred tries to make punch on sylvester, but his wife constantly confuses it with bole, eventually making him go nuts with rage. Another aspect of this episode, which shows the connection between it and its british origin: Alfred insults his wife as a "dusselige Kuh", which is basically a literal translation of Alf's "you silly moo".
The German series is quite rightfully considered a classic series and continues to be aired on a regular basis. I have watched it many times. Interesting to see the original British series.
The good old days of great British comedy and all fabulous actors
Back in the day when you were allowed to laugh at stuff and it’s wasn’t offensive. And he had a dig at Jimmy Saville in the first scene . He was right !!!
You were supposed to laugh at alf he was the butt of the jokes with his outdated beliefs
He was right about the BBC being shite as well.
You lot don’t get satire, do you? If you agree with Alf then you are basically him, and you are the one being sent up in this sitcom.
@@markrainford1219 And yet all the best sitcoms come from the BBC derrrrrr🤪.
People who get offended on other people's behalf. They're the real enemies of comedy.
4-18: "Just pay for the ones you'll 'ave!" So prophetic.......
We need a social commentator like Alf nowadays, when you could laugh at anything!
Everybody and their mate comment just like this in the media - but their bigotry and stupidity is sincere...
We need Alf on boarder control. The dingy divers would turn back!
@@shirleylane131 he'd soon put the pc brigade nuts in their place
@@shirleylane131
He's a made up character. Warren Mitchell was a jew and a left wing one at that !!
@@shirleylane131
As to the dinghies, I'd worry more about the superyatchs with the oligarchs on board. They are the ones after your future...
One of best ever shows, love
Warren Mitchell was a life long labour supporter in real life back in the days when labour stood for the working man
well fascist Powell you didn't stand for the working man, look where your views got you, finished off your political career 😉 🤣🤣🤣
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Oh yes… the Saville line was not an accident. His vile behaviour was well known at the BBC. Only in scripts like this could it be alluded to
Yep, Speight among others knew what he was up to but couldn’t call it out in public. Savile had some very unsavoury friends he would employ to put the frighteners on anyone who would dare speak out.
@@Mishima505Easy to see how he managed to get away with it for so long.
@@danw1374what a load of crap. Everybody loved Jimmy Saville back in the day especially for his charity work.
Amazing some peoples comments with hindsight.
OMG They even had descriptors of 'Savile' then!! People knew a lot more than was said. Brilliant series I used to watch with my Mum & Dad (RIP), and we laughed till tears fell. They simply don't write comedy's like this anymore. Is the world a better place these days????
Every one too scared to say boo now.
Bloody good comedy people nowadays miss out on this brilliant stuff.
@Hello Walter how are you doing
In 21st century Britain it's easy to think the antics of Johnny Speight's characters as outlandish and purely a product of his imagination. However he was writing what you could observe everyday in real life. Johnny Speight was an accurate reporter of society and human behaviour. In the past I met many people exactly like his characters, and heard bizarre debates and conversations he could easily have written.
A caricature of the bitter man losing grip on his world. Absolute comedy of it's time.
Alf Garnett was top dog.. pure classic comedy humour at it's best when you could call people what the hell you liked. GREAT DAYS
Oh piss off.
Your proof of stupidity.
You still can say what you like. I do. Fuck em.
@@danw1374 do you tell children of sexual assault to f off or what?
@@daniellarkins3849 What makes you think I would say that? I don't understand your comment at all.
4:20 - Soooo far ahead of its time! :-)
It was a brilliant show. Cleverly written and wonderfully acted.
Watching this makes you realise how bland & 'safe' modern tv has become. Talent shows, reality shows 'starring' members of the public & other innofensive fare has taken over what used to be a ground-breaking medium.
@@masterknife8423 We were laughing at comedy. You need to get out more... seriously.
@@masterknife8423 try to be less smooth brained.
This show was written by an ultra-progressive Jew and Alf was played by another ultra-progressive Jew.
This was the polar opposite of racism and was in fact anti-racist, anti-nationalist, anti-British social engineering of a masterful level of sophistication.
The fact that 50 years later, working-class and lower-middle class people still haven't figured it out, is testament to its power.
The progressives and educated classes understood from the beginning, that this is absolutely anti-racist social engineering accomplished by association of the negative behaviour, with a small, ignorant and ridiculous man of an older generation.
You have a lot to learn if you think the purpose was comedy, or in any way racist.
@@masterknife8423 Not as sharp as your name would suggest are you? This is how to campaign AGAINST racism. Not by lecturing and nagging and complaining.
@@maureendavidson4635 the same goes for rape too, I guess?
@@masterknife8423 I find it very fitting the ponce that is whining on about a persons personal life is touting around an anime profile picture, you either are a zoomer or a sjw or both. And as such you dont deserve to speak, now be silent you pretentious condescending twit. Quit trying to defame people before your dumb ass gets sued by someone for defamation.
The whole point was Alf always came off 2nd best, to the people he verbally abused, which if you noticed, was everyone and not just one race, the whole thing was taking the piss out of ourselves.
It was no different with love thy neighbour, the black guy always won , again taking the piss out of ourselves.
Yep - we used to know how to laugh at ourselves back then.
You're right. British comedy has always been about us laughing at ourselves.
Stop projecting, most of us just enjoyed him having a dig at the blacks.
@@leethomas8250 Alfs out dated beliefs were the joke people laughed at him not with him
@@joefabulous6989 You laughed at him. A lot of people laughed with him.
Brilliant, it's such a shame that we've lost the ability to appreciate damm good comedy these days.
R the good old days what went wrong 😃🐸✌
What went wrong was the rise of the Left-wing plus Political Correctness and now today the Woke 'Cancel' movement. That's what's gone wrong !
Like it or not, there is a little of alf in all of us. I think that's the reason why he struck a chord with viewers (including those who pride themselves on their enlightened attitudes). I think most can tell Alf is meant to be laughed at rather than with. While it's right to combat prejudice, hiding away programs like this is really not helping. Bigotry is and will always be part of our existence. Characters like this show us how silly they are
Nothing like the good old days the world has gone down the toilet. Terrible state of affairs.
Well said , Moco7614!! Here in the States, we had our Archie Bunker, who was Alf Garnett's American equivalent.
I remember my mum sticking those saving stamps in the book
Green Shield Stamps. I've got a book of them somewhere.
@@ruthbashford3176 Same here, the book dates from about 1973 lol
We would collect Co-op stamps. Little blue white things i vaguely remember.
Absolutely Brilliant! Even after all these years and who remembers good old Green Shield Stamps 🤣 I really wish they would more programs like this, instead of trying so hard to appear politically correct 🤦♀️
Brilliant still laughing after all these years. Loved it as a child even funnier now.xxxx🤣🤣🤣❤️🤣
Who exactly is trying to be politically correct?
We have all types of comedy.
I wouldn't say Ricky Gervaise or Al Murray are politically correct or inoffensive.....but they are clever in the way they put across a point.
So I guess it is what you say and the wit you use to put it across.
There are people, who talk like the 'pub landlord', but Al Murray draws you in to laugh at the character....in the same way Warren Mitchell, as Alf Garnett does.
"Long-haired, clunk-clipped ponce!" Now, who could Alf be referring to?
I have turned into Alf Garnettt...and proud of it !
I think we all do eventually.
Loved this programme. Best ever would cry with tears watching this. I have the complete series on DVD absolute brilliant very funny .lan from liverpool
Better than watching shite sweaty scousers football...😂😂😂
I used to love this when it was on. To think the Scouser(tony booth) ended up as Tony Blair`s Father in law.
And Elsie Tanner from Corrie his mother in law! Starmer has got his work cut out to beat that. MY FATHER WAS A TOOL.MAKER not much to brag about there.
@@maryminty5876 If you think of yourself as a Tool mate, that's your choice. Good luck with it.
A brilliant actor as good in classical roles as this.
0:38 They clocked Savile and this was the 1970s. The BBC covered him up and enabled him for decades. Sick.
And Cliff Richard.
Top man and spot on
All gone now, Alf, Else, Rita and Scouse Git..and Johnny Speight, too. RIP
Went to see the Thoughts of Chairman Alf; at Blazers in Windsor. Just him, a table and a pint of beer; just after Dandy Nichols died. Comedy Magic
WHAT A LEGEND!. If any one has a problem with this comedy then start developing a sense of humour. This is fantastic. If anyone disagrees then tough shit and crawl back under your rock!
Brilliant 👍😂 free speech remember that
Racists still exist sweetie
Freedom of speech...oh yes I remember that!
Racists we call them now
Apparently so...but not. Just very good fun and we laughed. Stupid humour now
@@Everykittyalways *"Racists still exist sweetie
"* I can tell that you're on the spectrum.
Watching the box set again now good stuff
Satire at its best. I remember my dad thinking it was hilarious and I was thinking this sounds just like my dad. It was a great way to not only show what the attitude of people was in that generation, but also demonstrate how wrong it was by using this character. We find him funny, but one only has to look in the mirror to see part of him in yourself. Fortunately a lot of people are far more tolerant thesedays, but sadly I know some people who are still exactly like the character. Perhaps showing some more of the Alf Garnet comedy would make them think again at how ridiculous they are. A true genius (along with the writers) for entertaining at the same time as making a generation look at themselves.
Amazing that there are still people who agree with some of what Alf said not realising the writers were taking the the piss out of people who actually thought that way.
Well that's what people like to think.
Those kind of people are the same idiots who think it's big and clever to call anyone who disagrees with their opinions "snowflakes"
@@flybobbie1449 No it's not what people like to think. It is the truth and is just such an obvious truth. Anyone with even half a brain can see that Alf Garnett is the object of ridicule. Anyone saying otherwise is trying to manufacture a grievance that just does not exist.
@@TalesOfTheRiverBank Giving the writers too much credit. People still think like Garnett now. It reflected real society and still does. Don't be fooled by modern woke. Woke wouldn't exist now if those attitudes were not still around and always will be.
I loved this show as a kid, BBC used do some filming afew streets down from where i lived in forest gate, despite problems of that time i remember it fondly.
An actor of such talent underrated by the powers that be but loved by the people rip warren
Loved this sitcom!! 😊👍
you would love me better. 😁👍
Guys like Alf and Albert Steptoe told it us as it was , crystal clear and no missunderstanding . Just wish Jim Davidson would come back to mainstream TV .
Jim Davidson is about as funny as a bucket of diarrhoea.
yeah could imagine you and Jim sitting in the corner of a pub, pair of you Billy no mates.😂😂😂😂
@@rickysorhaindo1359 or you and Mary shite house in the pub 😂👍
@@threeamigos842 keep quiet you weird, I bet your Billy no mates in your council flat, driving gut cheap cider drinking cider, watching Jim Davidson semi-porn pantomime videos 😉 while your ex wife and daughter are enjoying thier life with men of colour, know what I mean?🤣🤣🤣
Legendary stuff.
“And that middle aged peroxide albino clunk clink ponce they got in charge of it” ...And everybody laughed! 😔
This and Steptoe & son were comedies you never missed in those days.
Should be back on TV
It will never be shown again.
Youve more chance of finding rocking horse shit
@@rachaelblacklock7659 you can still find it just don't watch it you don't like it.that is how it works
it was funny though ,
I'm from the future (2022) and it is back on the telly. A freeview channel now shows it.
Where’s the scene when he’s whistling down the phone that was hilarious 😂😂
One of the greatest comic characters ever created.
Unquestionably iconic
Bring back this program it was so funny, offensive to some but everyone found it funny. Love thy Neighbour was another great one.
The do-gooders are trying to get allo allo stopped so alf wouldn't have a chance
Sadly, Louise, it's never going to happen. The world has changed, minorities rule, and the rest of us don't matter.
this is very funny JIMMY CARR IS NOT AND NEVER WILL BE OR KEITH LEMON etc
Lot of what he said was bloody true so funny though
The best way to deliver a lie has always been to surround it in truth.
This show was not made to entertain but to socially engineer, which it accomplished.
Speight managed to turn anyone supporting nationalist politics, or objecting to mass immigration, into an object of ridicule,.
He made supporting such policies social suicide "oh it's Alf Garnett, haha!"
What an absolute legend he was, but the other's were just as brilliant and the show was just a go at anyone that could be taken the piss out of. Especially MP's.................shame he's not here now.
Alf was a great character. Unforgettable. ❤❤❤
Wish they’d air these again on tv
Its on youtube idiot.
@@jahno7154 that's not the same baldy
Alf Garnett, & Family! Hillarious! Very Very Funny! Love them! 📺❤🤣🇬🇧
The relationship between Alf An his son in law was funny
Happy days.
0:45. Even Alf Garnett knew about Jimmy So Vile!
So funny, I know what I'm watch this weekend.
A tribute to Alf Garnett - cheers.
"bloody silly moo!" was one of his often-repeated sayings in the series.
And don't forget... Marvellous, innit marvellous!
I remember seeing his live show, “The thoughts of Chairman Alf,” with my pa. It was BRILLIANT
The irony here was that Alf supported Mary Whitehouse, who campaigned against Till Death Us Do Part.
They don't make them like that anymore, I can cry laughing watching this
Bloody brilliant 👏 👌
Loved Dandy Nichols. 😂❤️
I have all these on DVD brillant comedy
Keep hold of it, the loud minority will soon have it removed from history.
Have they been edited?
A comedy character, who never pulled his verbal punches and didn't give a toss about anyone else's 'feelings'.
Alf sometimes missed the mark on some of his opinions but 99% of the time, his monologues and rants, were 🎯😉
I grew up in Canning Town in the 60s/70s and J Speights comedy writing is
spot on. There were many Alfs and the language used is what you might expect from east end dockers. Our working class culture must never be banned by snowflake P C marxist ponces.
You are utterly missing the point. Warren Mitchell was very left-wing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣perfect couple, perfect comedy timing
Warren was brilliant actor he was so unlike alf makes his performance all the more incredible
In 2021 we know, without doubt, Alfred was utterly correct and now we have to live in a dystopia created for our good.
Truth from way back when!!!!!!
Speight/Alf spot on regarding Saville.
And Speight could get away with any potential libel accusations by having Alf say it "Oh its just silly old Alf, he talks a lot of nonsense"
Loved it !
Fantastic show
Una Stubbs. Amazing.
At 3:00 minutes in I can remember licking and sticking Green Shield stamps into their books by the hundreds
Me too. I used to do it for my Nan.
You can buy the DVD of all the available shows & watch them when you like, sound full on.....
I'm going to get them for posterity. My grandchildren will first be horrified and then understand. This show with great scripts and the wonderful actors should be shown in schools. A quicker lesson than all that PC psychobabbilism.
Purchased rhe complete set. Brilliant. Just fantastic comedy.
Fantastic!
Absolute comedy gold 😂
Many here don't seem to realise Alfs out dated beliefs were the joke we laughed at him not with him