Till Death Us Do Part

You can save yourself a lot of time, trying to figure out what's going on with the world, from Trump to Boris, just by watching a few episodes.

Johnny Spreight knew the value the oppressed put upon a figurehead that was the head of the reason why he was so poor, so oppressed, just as a Trump voter thinks their flag is of any value and it is more important to them than food in their child's stomach.

Written by and starring two wonderful Marxists, their message was sadly missed but is still a message for our time.

Warren Mitchell plays Alf Garnet a bigotted docker, from east London on the other side of the pond in east whopping. With his henpecked wife named Elsie played by Dandy Nichols his daughter Ria played by Unna Stubbs and his outspoken but politically minded staunch labour supporting son In law Mike played by Anthony Booth in a working class family set up.

The series is about the Garnett families attempts to get through everyday life whilst constantly clashing with the face of political bureaucracy as well as societal change.

The series is well written and acted for the most part, and unlike the awful and unpleasant sitcom '' Love thy Neighbour" starring Jack Smethurst it has a statement to make about political correctness and how it impacts various factions of society.

Overall: not the best sitcom to come out of BBC one in the 1960s and 1970s but pleasantly watchable.

Refreshingly un-pc from an era when people could speak their mind. Unlike today where everyone is treading on eggshells through fear of causing "offence"

How anyone from this era can view this show from the 60s as anything other than social comedy is a complete mystery.

The show wasn't bigoted or racist, it shone a light on the very small minority of bigots that existed and their ridiculous views, Warren Mitchell played that bigoted character to perfection and it showed how his character was laughed at for those views.

The majority of bigots are "alf garnets" bad tempered loud mouthy nobody's with a lack of education, this show poked fun at these people.

"Till death us do part" shone a light on this culture, it didn't incite any community to to be racist, it brought this issue into the homes of many and started the conversation, unlike many at that time it didn't ignore or shy away from the problem.

Those that complained didn't have the intelligence to understand this show and it seems there are those that still don't understand, the use of comedy is one of the best ways to highlight social issues.

This show was great to love and hate at the same time. Alf Garnett was the secret bigot in all of us. It spawned the American version "All in the family" with Alf Garnett becoming Archie Bunker.