Ray Galton Movies
Spooner's Patch
1979
Set in the Woodley district of London, the 19-episode sitcom Spooner's Patch poked cruel fun at police corruption in Great Britain. Incompetent Inspector Spooner, a man who...
Steptoe and Son Ride Again
1973
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Sanford and Son: Coffins for Sale
1972
Lamont Sanford (Demond Wilson) once again hatches a get-rich-quick scheme. This time, he purchases two coffins from a bankrupt undertaker, intending to parlay these items...
Sanford and Son: A Matter of Life and Breath
1972
Fred and Lamont Sanford (Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson) head to a mobile clinic to get free x-rays. The results reveal that one of the Sanford men has TB, but the x-rays...
Sanford and Son: Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride
1972
Despite the protests of his dad, Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx), Lamont (Demond Wilson) is determined to go through with his upcoming marriage. Alas, the bride gets cold...
Sanford and Son: The Barracuda
1972
Lynn Hamilton makes her first series appearance as widow Donna Harris, who intends to march elderly junkman Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) down the altar. Describing...
Sanford and Son: Crossed Swords
1972
The pilot episode of Sanford and Son was adapted from a script which aired several years earlier on the series' British prototype Steptoe and Son. After a quick introduction...
Sanford and Son: Happy Birthday, Pop
1972
The Herculean efforts by Lamont Sanford (Demond Wilson) to make something special out of his dad's 65th birthday seem doomed from the start. Not only does dad Fred...
Sanford and Son: The Piano Movers
1972
This episode is far from "PC" in its depiction of homosexual stereotypes, but remember that the world of TV comedy was a far different one in 1972. Fred (Redd Foxx) and...
Sanford and Son: The Great Sanford Siege
1972
Fred (Redd Foxx) and Lamont (Demond Wilson) are used to being in debt, but they aren't accustomed to the hostile aggressiveness of their creditors. The inevitable day...
Sanford and Son: We Were Robbed
1972
To cover up the fact that he has accidentally broken his son Lamont's precious porcelain connection, Fred (Redd Foxx) claims that their home was burglarized. Naturally,...
Sanford and Son: TV or Not TV
1972
Fred Sanford (Redd Foxx) wants a color TV, but his son Lamont (Demond Wilson) spends their available cash on a new car. To convince Lamont to trade in the car for a...
Steptoe and Son
1972
Steptoe and Son was the British TV precursor to the American sitcom Sanford and Son. Wilfred Brambell, the "clean old grandfather" from the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night,...
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
1971
A collection of English humor in the form of sketch film are provided on this film which was assisted by comedians Feldman and Chapman. ~ Rovi...
Naughty Knights
PG 1971
The British farce Naughty Knights was originally shipped out as Up the Chastity Belt. Raucuous comedian Frankie Howerd, who laid waste to Roman history in the zany TV series...
Loot
PG 1970
Joe Orton's black comedy farce has been adapted to the screen in a fast-paced, but ultimately ineffective, adaptation. Hywel Bennett and Roy Holder are two lay-abouts...
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966
When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea that the dog has a highly sensitive bug in its stomach....
The Bargee
1964
This British comedy comes from Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, writers of the hit television program Steptoe and Son. Harry H. Corbett (who played Steptoe, Jr. on the...
The Wrong Arm of the Law
1963
When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket. Benevolent burglar Peter Sellers, the man in charge of all...
Steptoe and Son [TV Series]
1962
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