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Till Death gave us the world Alf Garnett and gave Britain a comedic way to understand the changes hitting it in the 1960s and 1970s. Seven series were produced from 1965-1975, and Alf Garnett became a legend.
Garnett was a character whom both writer Johnny Speight and actor Warren Mitchell loathed.
Racist, hating everything around him, his tirades are funny because they cannot be taken seriously.
By allowing a hideous bigot to express his bigotry, Speight made fun of those who feared change.
Garnett hates communists, as embodied by his layabout son-in-law.
He can't stand women getting above themselves, and continually shouts his daughter (Una Stubbs) down.
Most episodes give Garnett something he'll hate – Labour, a Scouser for a son-in-law, scroungers – and let him run with it in a series of continual arguments.
Catchphrases like 'it stands to reason' became commonplace as Garnett exploded onto the screen in 1965 like Enoch Powell's Golem.
Most people got it – that he was everything wrong with the nation in one man.
A few diehard racists never got it, and thought he was
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