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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: SqueakyVoice on February 08, 2017, 05:08:02 PM

Title: Alan Simpson dies
Post by: SqueakyVoice on February 08, 2017, 05:08:02 PM

Alan Simpson, half of the duo behind Hancock's Thirty Minutes and Steptoe and Son, possibly one of the best comedies about a rag and bone man and his son ever written has died at the age of 87.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/feb/08/alan-simpson-writer-of-steptoe-and-son-dies-aged-87

So long and thanks for all the laughs.

Title: Re: Alan Simpson dies
Post by: Sebastian Toe on February 08, 2017, 06:22:20 PM

'Aaaaaarrrooolllddddd..........'

Title: Re: Alan Simpson dies
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 13, 2017, 01:58:10 PM

Interesting obituary


http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/obituaries/alan-simpson-1929-2017-galton-simpson-tony-hancock-steptoe-son