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Old 05-02-2017, 06:19 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I've seen some of Steptoe and I used to watch Sanford and Son and I have to say that Sanford and Son is the better show.
You could be right. I've never watched Sanford and only ever watched a handful of episodes of Steptoe, so don't have an opinion. It was however iconic in its time and entered the language for a while to describe general untidiness. I recall a friend referring to one of his neighbour's properties as Steptoe's because of the old rusted out car bodies and general rubbish at the front of the property concerned.

I do wonder if your preference is wholly or partially a cultural thing. Often programs, particularly comedy, which screen in one country, in this case the UK, are re-made for another, in this case the US. Yet it would usually be more cost effective to simply screen the original series rather than re-make it. Presumably the reasoning was that the idea behind the show would travel well, but the actual show itself would not.
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