Till Death Us Do Part
Till Death Us Do Part can be just a sitcom that aired from 1965 to 1975 on BBC1. First broadcasting as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, the show aired in seven series until 1975. Six years later, ITV continued the sit com, calling it generously Death.... The BBC created a sequel In Sickness and in Health.
Created by Johnny Speight, Until Death Us Do Part centred on the eastend Garnett family, led by patriarch a reactionary white working-class man who holds racist and anti-socialist viewpoints, Alf Garnett. Dandy Nichols played his long suffering and gentle wife, along with also his daughter Rita from Una Stubbs. The bright but layabout husband Mike Rawlins of rita can be just a breeze. The personality Alf Garnett became a personality in British style, also Mitchell and he played on television and stage up until 1998, when Speight died.
Along with this Spinoff In Sickness and in Health, Until Death Us Do Part was re-made in many countries including Germany, Brazil and the USA.
Many episodes from the first three series are thought to no longer exist, as had been the policy at the time having been wiped from the late 1960s and early'70s.