As of 2023 The entire run (including the pilot episode that was shown as part of the "Comedy Playhouse" series) has been broadcast and repeated on the "That's TV" channel - although the Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) frequently mislabels episodes.
Albert's 65th birthday comes as a joke to Harold, who pretends to forget in order to wind him up.
Series 3 would see the highest recorded audience viewing figures, with the episode The Lodger being watched by 21.54 million.
Harold plans to go on a sailing trip around the world, and bung Albert in an old peoples home.
The Steptoes take a porcelain vase to a West End antiques expert's shop.
The Steptoes have to defend their home from businessmen with court orders after they run up one too many bills.
After accidentally knocking over Harold's porcelain collection, Albert pretends they have been robbed to cover it up.
Albert gets stuck in a painful yoga position, while Harold reveals a new commode he has just picked up for a bargain price.
Originally transmitted in a 42-minute cut, but also exists as a longer 46-minute edit which was inadventently released by the BBC on home video, before being withdrawn.
(Original Radio Times title: "A Christmas Holiday", although Galton and Simpson's original script reused the series 1 title "The Holiday") Christmas Night with the Stars was screened annually on Christmas night when the top stars of the BBC appeared in short versions, typically five to ten minutes; The programme ran from 1958 to 1972 and Steptoe & Son appeared twice in 1962 and 1967.
Only sequences from the 1967 Christmas segment remain and still exist on the original film in the archives.
The 1963 edition included a Steptoe and Son sketch and was broadcast on ITV on 10 November 1963.
Steptoe and Son Pye/Golden Guinea (GGL 0217), 1963, with new audio recordings produced by Gale Pedrick: More Junk from Steptoe and Son Pye/Golden Guinea (GGL 0278), 1964, with new audio recordings produced by Gale Pedrick: