When Steptoe Met Son is a 2002 Channel 4 documentary about the personal lives of Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett, the stars of the long-running BBC situation comedy, Steptoe and Son.
The programme reveals how Brambell and Corbett were highly dissimilar to their on-screen characters.
Corbett felt he had a promising career as a serious actor, but was trapped by his role as Harold and forced to keep returning to the series after typecasting limited his choice of work.
Brambell, meanwhile, was a homosexual, something that in the 1960s was still frowned upon by traditional British society and, until the Sexual Offences Act 1967 came into force in England and Wales, illegal, and was thus driven underground.
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