S1.E5

The Diploma

Name: The Diploma
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1962-06-23
Duration: 28 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Trevor Maskell

Episode aired Jun 23, 1962
28m

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7.2/10

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Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H. Corbett in The Diploma (1962)

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Tired of being a rag-and-bone man, Harold decides he wants to do something different and enrolls upon a course which will give him a qualification as a television repairs man. Unfortunately ... Read allTired of being a rag-and-bone man, Harold decides he wants to do something different and enrolls upon a course which will give him a qualification as a television repairs man. Unfortunately Albert seems to know more about the subject than he does and ultimately ruins it for him.Tired of being a rag-and-bone man, Harold decides he wants to do something different and enrolls upon a course which will give him a qualification as a television repairs man. Unfortunately Albert seems to know more about the subject than he does and ultimately ruins it for him.

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7.2/10

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Harry H. Corbett

Harold Steptoe

Wilfrid Brambell

Albert Steptoe

Trevor Maskell

The Announcer
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(uncredited)

Director
- Duncan Wood
Writers
- Alan Simpson
- Ray Galton
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6/10

The Diploma

Business is slack once again for Steptoe and son. Harold has been coming home empty. Albert criticises him for having no go. Not able to talk to potential customers to part with goods.

Albert is upset that Harold has purchased a correspondence course on electronics. He hopes to be a television repairman once he gets his diploma. It could be his way into money and out of the house.

That leaves Albert to go out and be a rag and bone man. Only Albert too comes home empty handed.

While Harold struggles with the electronics course. Albert then has a go, he manages to get the television working.

I liked how Albert had a collection of old spectacles as he tries to read harrold's course book. He just needed to find the right prescription.

Although made in the early 1960s. Harold is talking about the Common Market. Which Britain would join 10 years later and exit a few more decades afterwards.