Harold wants a better life for himself, watching his old man ironing rags, he decides it's time to do something about it, he calculates that the business would benefit from the powers of bulk buying.
There was a real grit in this first series, it was of course funny, but it really did manage to show the poverty some were living in. It's a very bittersweet episode, Harold is desperate to get on, his plans are of course scuppered by his old man.
As always the pair are quite wonderful, considering that for the most part, it's a two handed episode, they play off one another beautifully. Frank Thornton would of course appear in several episodes.
It's interesting, in these early years, Harold was a definite Capitalist, as he gets older, and more battered by the stresses and strains of life, he becomes more of a Socialist, and even maybe even a bit of a communist. Albert was ever the blue voter.
It's not natural, I know, they're false.... Great line.
It's not a classic, but it's funny, 7/10.
There was a real grit in this first series, it was of course funny, but it really did manage to show the poverty some were living in. It's a very bittersweet episode, Harold is desperate to get on, his plans are of course scuppered by his old man.
As always the pair are quite wonderful, considering that for the most part, it's a two handed episode, they play off one another beautifully. Frank Thornton would of course appear in several episodes.
It's interesting, in these early years, Harold was a definite Capitalist, as he gets older, and more battered by the stresses and strains of life, he becomes more of a Socialist, and even maybe even a bit of a communist. Albert was ever the blue voter.
It's not natural, I know, they're false.... Great line.
It's not a classic, but it's funny, 7/10.
