It was also hinted that Alf had Jewish ancestry, though he always denied this and often referred to his religion as Church of England, "same as Her Majesty the Queen", though he rarely attended services.
Rita married her "long-haired layabout" socialist boyfriend Mike in 1966, shortly after the general election of 31 March, and they moved into the Garnetts' house.
Rita visited and Alf was horrified to see his grandson, now a teenager (albeit being born in 1972, his age is inconsistent between series), was a punk rocker.
Between 1981 and 1985, the Garnetts moved back to a small house in the East End, and Min stayed behind with her sister Gwenyth.
[citation needed] In the episode "State Visit" (20 February 1967) Alf gives his full name as Alfred Edward Garnett.
In the shows, Garnett was regularly ridiculed for his illogical views and hypocrisy by his family, but he stubbornly refused to admit he was wrong.
Alf was mean and selfish towards his emotionally detached wife, Else played by Dandy Nichols, referring to her as a "silly old moo".
This terminology was later picked up by the American pop group The Monkees for their song, "Randy Scouse Git", included on their 1967 album Headquarters.
before she would go off on her own tirades, at times aimed at her husband for his stupidity, but more often at her extremely overheating father over his appalling treatment of her mother.
Mitchell stated that he became tired of always being associated with Alf Garnett but enjoyed playing the part and appreciated the debt he owed to the character.
[5] The American version of Till Death Do Us Part, All in the Family, featured Archie Bunker in the Alf Garnett mould.
In the movie Till Death Us Do Part, Alf receives a letter advising him that he has been called up for war service.
Later in the film, Alf claims that the call-up papers were in error because he was in a Reserved Occupation and thus ineligible for service, so possibly the authorities had confused him with someone with a similar name.
Oswald Mosley dismissed Enoch Powell after his Rivers of Blood speech as "a middle class Alf Garnett".
[11] On 9 June 2010, during Prime Minister's Questions, David Cameron referred to Ed Balls as "the new Alf Garnett of British politics" following his comments on immigration.
[12] During the 2024 general election campaign, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage likened one of his own activists to Garnett after he was recorded calling for English Channel migrants to be used as "target practice".