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Alan Simpson dies
« 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

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Re: Alan Simpson dies
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2017, 06:22:20 PM »
'Aaaaaarrrooolllddddd..........'
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