The Curse of Steptoe

Audience Score
66
The Curse of Steptoe
NR 1 hr 7 minDrama
In the early 1960s aspiring stage actor Harry H Corbett jumps at the chance to play junkdealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show Steptoe and Son However the shows success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him typecasting him and thwarting his stage ambitions Wilfrid Brambell the actor playing his father is marginalized in a different way He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal
DirectorMichael Samuels
WriterBrian Fillis