# "Till Death Us Do Part" (British TV Series)

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**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/till-death-us-do-part-british-tv-series/527185/1 "2010-02-01T01:30:17Z")

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Our library had some DVDs of old British sitcoms like “Man About The House,” (man “Threes Company” stole the plots nearly word for word from that show. Yeah I know it’s based on that show, but exact lines??? :))

Anyway one of them they had was “[Till Death Do Us Part](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Death_Us_Do_Part_(British_TV_series))” which the sitcom “All In The Family” is based on.

OK I have now seen 8 episodes of this. It’s HORRIBLE. I didn’t find anything in it funny or really anything that will even basically pass for entertainment.

I don’t know perhaps I was thinking it would be more like “All In The Family.” I used to enjoy the old “Brit-coms” they had on my PBS station in the 70s, like “No Honestly.” but this was bad.

So question to those of you that have seen the series, did you like it?

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**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/till-death-us-do-part-british-tv-series/527185/2 "2010-02-01T01:44:54Z")

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Saw it on TV when it originally aired

Very much a product of its time You have to appreciate the social and political context that the Alf Garnett character appeared in in 1960s Britain - but it is relentless satire, more in the form of a play than sit com - not laugh a minute and probably went on too long -it’s the character of Alf Garnett rather than the series that struck a chord but it was and remains pretty grim and depressing viewing .

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> Writer Johnny Speight often commented that the character was supposed to be a figure of ridicule, but admitted that not all viewers saw the satiric elements of the character.[2][3] Speight defended the Alf Garnett character, saying: “If you do the character correctly, he just typifies what you hear - not only in pubs but in golf clubs around the country. To make him truthful he’s got to say those things, and they are nasty things. But I feel as a writer that they should be out in the open so we can see how daft these comparisons are.”[4]

> **[Alf Garnett](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Garnett)**
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> Alfred Edward Garnett is a fictional character from the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part and its follow-on and spin-off series Till Death... and In Sickness and in Health. He also appeared in the chat show The Thoughts of Chairman Alf. The character was created by Johnny Speight and played by Warren Mitchell.
> In a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Alf Garnett was ranked 49th on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters.
> Alf Garnett was born in Wapping around 1917. Little is known of A...

## Tony Booth’s (who played the son) daughter , married Tony Blair