The old man didn't die laughing, but you will.
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Alan Simpson
Writer
Peter Sykes
Director
Ray Galton
Writer
Jack Fishman
Original Music Composer
Ernest Steward
Director of Photography
Roy Budd
Original Music Composer
Wilfrid Brambell
Albert Steptoe
Harry H. Corbett
Harold Steptoe
Diana Dors
Woman in Flat
Milo O'Shea
Dr. Popplewell
Neil McCarthy
Lennie
Bill Maynard
George
George Tovey
Percy
Sam Kydd
Claude
Yootha Joyce
Freda
Olga Lowe
Rita
Joyce Hemson
Claude's Wife
Henry Woolf
Frankie Barrow
