S1.E4

The Economist

Name: The Economist
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1962-06-28
Duration: 28 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Harry H. Corbett, Wilfrid Brambell, Frank Thornton

Episode aired Jun 28, 1962
28m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

YOUR RATING

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

Comedy

Harold buys a huge job lot of sets of dentures for forty pounds but has no luck in selling them, even when he advertises them all in the local paper at the price he paid for them. As a final... Read allHarold buys a huge job lot of sets of dentures for forty pounds but has no luck in selling them, even when he advertises them all in the local paper at the price he paid for them. As a final measure he uses his last ten pounds to buy a load of gas masks, offering a set of denture... Read allHarold buys a huge job lot of sets of dentures for forty pounds but has no luck in selling them, even when he advertises them all in the local paper at the price he paid for them. As a final measure he uses his last ten pounds to buy a load of gas masks, offering a set of dentures free with each one sold.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
At one point Harold makes reference to Oxford Famine Relief, who went on to become Oxfam.

User reviews2

Featured review

7/10

It's like Burke and Hare.

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.