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Steptoe and Son is a 1972
1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved some significant events....
 British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 comedy drama film and a spin-off
Spin-off

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator....
 from the popular British television comedy series of the same name
Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Galton and Simpson about two rag and bone man living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London....
 about a pair of rag and bone men. It starred Wilfrid Brambell
Wilfrid Brambell

Wilfrid Brambell was an Ireland film and television actor, born in Dublin, best known for his role in the United Kingdom television series Steptoe and Son....
 and Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett

Harry H. Corbett Order of the British Empire was an England actor.Corbett was best known for his starring role in the hugely popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s....
 as the eponymous characters and also featured Carolyn Seymour
Carolyn Seymour

Carolyn Seymour is an English actress, best associated with portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors in 1975.Her birth name was Carolyn von Beckdendorf, as a result of her mixed ancestry ...
.

Plot
During a gentlemen's evening at a local football club, Harold meets one of the acts, a stripper called Zita. After a whirlwind romance the couple are married and they go on honeymoon.






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Steptoe and Son is a 1972
1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved some significant events....
 British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 comedy drama film and a spin-off
Spin-off

A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator....
 from the popular British television comedy series of the same name
Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Galton and Simpson about two rag and bone man living in Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London....
 about a pair of rag and bone men. It starred Wilfrid Brambell
Wilfrid Brambell

Wilfrid Brambell was an Ireland film and television actor, born in Dublin, best known for his role in the United Kingdom television series Steptoe and Son....
 and Harry H. Corbett
Harry H. Corbett

Harry H. Corbett Order of the British Empire was an England actor.Corbett was best known for his starring role in the hugely popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s....
 as the eponymous characters and also featured Carolyn Seymour
Carolyn Seymour

Carolyn Seymour is an English actress, best associated with portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors in 1975.Her birth name was Carolyn von Beckdendorf, as a result of her mixed ancestry ...
.

Plot


During a gentlemen's evening at a local football club, Harold meets one of the acts, a stripper called Zita. After a whirlwind romance the couple are married and they go on honeymoon. With Albert. After eating some of the local cuisine Albert is taken ill and Harold is forced to fly home with him, leaving Zita abroad. After three days Zita takes up with a holiday rep, leaving Harold heartbroken. On meeting Zita again Harold finds that she is pregnant but does not know who the baby's father is. Harold offers to take care of them both but on returning home Albert makes sure that Zita feels unwelcome and she flees. A short while later a baby appears in the horse's stable and it is obvious that this is Zita's child. They name the child after the priest who officiates the christening. Unfortunately for Harold, he is also called Albert. Zita soon returns and takes the baby back while Albert, who should be looking after him, is asleep. Harold tries to find her and comes across her in a local rugby club where she is soon forced into the scrum of cheering rugby fans. Attempting to save her, Harold is beaten up and is only rescued when Zita's musician saves him. Hustled into a back room he hears a baby's cries but when he pulls back a curtain a mixed-race baby is there instead. It turns out that Zita and her musician, who is black, are a couple. As Harold says at the end to his father "That one wasn't mine either".

Cast

  • Wilfrid Brambell
    Wilfrid Brambell

    Wilfrid Brambell was an Ireland film and television actor, born in Dublin, best known for his role in the United Kingdom television series Steptoe and Son....
     .... Albert Steptoe
  • Harry H. Corbett
    Harry H. Corbett

    Harry H. Corbett Order of the British Empire was an England actor.Corbett was best known for his starring role in the hugely popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom Steptoe and Son in the 1960s and 70s....
     .... Harold Steptoe
  • Carolyn Seymour
    Carolyn Seymour

    Carolyn Seymour is an English actress, best associated with portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series Survivors in 1975.Her birth name was Carolyn von Beckdendorf, as a result of her mixed ancestry ...
     .... Zita
  • Arthur Howard
    Arthur Howard

    For other people with this name, see Arthur Howard Arthur Howard was an English film actor.Born as Arthur John Stainer, he was the younger son of Ferdinand Steiner and Lilian Blumberg....
     .... Vicar
  • Victor Maddern
    Victor Maddern

    Victor Jack Maddern was an England actor.Maddern, born in Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, was one of large group of dependable supporting actors that British film produced over the years....
     .... Chauffeur
  • Fred Griffiths .... Barman
  • Joan Heath .... Zita's mother
  • Fred McNaughton .... Zita's father
  • Lon Satton .... Pianist
  • Patrick Fyffe .... Arthur (as Perri St. Claire)
  • Patsy Smart
    Patsy Smart

    Patsy Smart was an England actor who is best remembered for her performance as List of Upstairs, Downstairs characters#Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama Upstairs, Downstairs....
     .... Mrs. Hobbs
  • Mike Reid
    Mike Reid (entertainer)

    Michael Reid was an English people comedian and character actor, hailing from Metropolitan Borough of Hackney in East London, England, who is best remembered for playing the role of Frank Butcher in EastEnders and hosting the popular children's TV show Runaround ....
     .... Compere
  • Alec Mango
    Alec Mango

    Alec Mango , born Alexander Anthony J. Mango, was an English actor. Best known for portraying El Supremo in the 1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., he also appeared in The Strange World of Planet X , The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Frankenstein Created Woman ....
     .... Hotel Doctor
  • Michael Da Costa .... Hotel Manager
  • Enys Box .... Traffic Warden


Trivia

  • The late EastEnders
    EastEnders

    EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
     actor and comedian Mike Reid
    Mike Reid (entertainer)

    Michael Reid was an English people comedian and character actor, hailing from Metropolitan Borough of Hackney in East London, England, who is best remembered for playing the role of Frank Butcher in EastEnders and hosting the popular children's TV show Runaround ....
     makes an early appearance.
  • Carolyn Seymour, who plays Zita, went on to play Abby Grant in the first series of Terry Nation
    Terry Nation

    Terry Nation was a Welsh people novelist and screenwriter.He is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who....
    's apocalyptic BBC drama series Survivors
    Survivors

    Survivors is a United Kingdom television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It was Survivors ....
     in 1975 and has gone on to have a successful Hollywood career, most notably as a Romulan
    Romulan

    Romulans are a fictional alien species that exist in the Star Trek universe that are related to the Vulcan and are at war or in an uneasy truce with the United Federation of Planets, of which Earth is a member, throughout most of the Star Trek series and films....
     in Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
    .
  • Arthur the drag queen
    Drag queen

    A drag queen is a person, usually a man, who dresses in female clothes and make-up for special occasions and usually because they are performing and entertaining as a hostess, stage artist or at an event....
     friend of Zita's was played by Patrick Fyffe who later had a successful career known as Dame Hilda Bracket of Hinge and Bracket
    Hinge and Bracket

    Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket were the stage names of George Logan and Patrick Fyffe respectively. The characters of Hinge and Bracket were elderly, intellectual, female musicians; in these personae the male Logan and Fyffe played and sang songs to comic effect....
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