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	JOHNNY SPEIGHT OBITUARY
		Speight had created him to air and discredit the opinions that ordinary people had.
		Speight then became infatuated with jazz, and worked as a drummer for the Soho dance bands of the early 1950s.
		Speight's work was rarely without its critics and, a proclaimed lifelong socialist, he blamed "BBC liberals" when asked to tone down Alf's comments in 1968.
	www.tonyhancock.org.uk /ham6art4.html (621 words)

	Johnny Speight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Johnny Speight (June 2, 1920 - July 5, 1998), was a TV scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.
		Speight was one of many great writing talents on that series which also included the star Sykes, John Antrobus and Spike Milligan.
		In 1998 Johnny Speight died of cancer, and LWT put forward a series of specials featuring Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett, giving his thoughts on a variety of subjects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Speight (428 words)

	Johnny Speight -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Johnny Speight (June 2, 1920 - July 5, 1998), was a (Broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects) TV scriptwriter of many classic (The people of Great Britain) British (A situation comedy) sitcoms.
		Speight's next major series was 1975's For Richer...For Poorer which featured (Click link for more info and facts about Harry H Corbett) Harry H Corbett as a (Click link for more info and facts about left-wing) left-wing answer to Alf Garnett.
		In 1998 Johnny Speight died of (Type genus of the family Cancridae) cancer, and (Click link for more info and facts about LWT) LWT put forward a series of specials featuring (Click link for more info and facts about Warren Mitchell) Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett, giving his thoughts on a variety of subjects.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/johnny_speight.htm (463 words)

	johnny speight
		Johnny Speight, who died last week at the age of 78, always maintained that his most famous creation was as much documentary as fiction.
		Speight was born in Canning Town on June 2, 1920, the son of a London docker, and left school at 14.
		Johnny’s reading now turned to the modern classics of Chek- hov, Ibsen and Strindberg and he wrote a succession of worthy but very dull plays on the evils of capitalism before finding his true place in literature.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /speight.htm (887 words)

	Kaleidoscope - A Family at War
		Johnny Speight began his comedy career writing for Frankie Howerd's radio shows in 1955; which in turn led to a long association with Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan.
		A radio interview with Speight resulted in a court action when he implied that Mrs Whitehouse and her National Viewers and Listeners Association were fascists; the NVLA won a full apology and substantial settlement in July 1967.
		Speight reflected the scenario brilliantly; although there were the usual debates on royalty, the BBC, religion, pornography, race and Alf's alleged Judaism, the struggle going on in the world outside was reflected in the Garnetts living room, as it was in millions of other living rooms, more powerfully and more hilariously than ever before.
	www.petford.net /kaleidoscope/a-family-at-war.html (2738 words)

	Television Heaven
		As with Speight's Till Death Us Do Part, the intention of the series was to highlight the futility of racial prejudice and use comedy as a weapon to combat it.
		Along with the copious use of racist terms, Curry and Chips was also accused of being too liberal with its use of expletives, one viewer complaining that a single episodes used the word 'bloody' on 59 occasions (although Eric Sykes could not be accused of this as he flatly refused to use bad language).
		Speight himself later remarked: "It was the English who were made to look bigoted in the show but the people at the IBA couldn't understand that.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /curry.htm (410 words)

	Speight, Johnny
		Johnny Speight is the creator of the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part, upon which the U.S. series All in the Family (CBS) was based.
		As controversial in its time and place as was All in the Family, Speight's creation spawned a generation of relevant, hard-hitting sitcoms both in the United States and England.
		In 1968, Speight produced a BBC movie version of the series, and, in 1972, he also penned a short-run revival of the series.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/speightjohn/speightjohn.htm (499 words)

	Feature: John Antrobus remembers the strange days of Associated London Scripts
		Of Good Report is dedicated to Speight, and concentrates on the turbulent relationship they had as they worked together on the Frankie Howerd radio show.
		Johnny would never examine his work, he would never rewrite.
		Johnny Speight’s work is hardly shown these days, and that’s why this play is dedicated to him
	www.chortle.co.uk /features/antrobus.htm (892 words)

	Television Heaven
		The highlight of the series, apart from the sharp and well-observed comedic routines, was the perfect combination of Sykes and comedy actress Hattie Jacques (as his spinster sister) both of whom forged a relationship so convincing that a large section the viewing public thought that they really were siblings.
		Eric and writer Johnny Speight originally devised the series, although it was Eric's idea to have Jacques play his sister rather than his wife in order to break the mould of the usual domestic sitcom scenario.
		Speight, Sykes and Milligan teamed up again for the controversial 1969 series Curry and Chips (see Eric Sykes biography in TV Greats for more details).
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /sykes.htm (547 words)

	7.30 Report - 24/02/2004: Warren Mitchell is a winner
		Johnny Mills I think is over 90 and still working.
		As Johnny wrote years ago, people should stay in their own countries, the countries that was allocated to them, the countries we put them all in when we run the world, when we had our empire before the bloody Labour Party gave it all away.
		I think if Johnny were alive, he would have a ball today and particularly about political correctness, which is offensive to most artists to be censored.
	www.abc.net.au /7.30/content/2004/s1052464.htm (1312 words)

	Speight We Are A Technical Advisory Service That Provides Project Management And Business Consulting. Dr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Speight was not supposed to lead the coup.
		Johnny Speight is the creator of the BBC series Till Death Us Do Part, upon which the U. Series All in the Family (CBS) was based.
		George Speight was described as a political lightweight when he staged his George Speight is the son of an opposition MP, Sam Speight, who was.
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	Johnny Speight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Johnny Speight (de junio el 2 de 1920 - de julio el 5 de 1998), era un scriptwriter de la TV de muchos sitcoms británicos clásicos.
		Speight era uno de muchos grandes talentos de la escritura en eso la serie que también incluyó la estrella Sykes, Juan Antrobus y punto Milligan.
		En Johnny 1998 Speight murió de cáncer, y LWT proponen una serie de specials que ofrecen a Warren Mitchell como Alf Garnett, dando sus pensamientos en una variedad de temas.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/jo/Johnny%20Speight.htm (506 words)

	CHEAM BUGLE
		Speight wrote for many other great comedians including Spike Milligan and the excellent Arthur Haynes, one of the few people who could do 'deadpan and indignant' better than Hancock.
		The rantings and course language of Alf were often the target for TV decency campaigner Mary Whitehouse but Speight would watch with glee as Whitehouse's column inches were translated into increased viewing figures.
		Speight would sometimes have to haggle with producers to include expletives in his scripts; trading two mildly offensive words for one big one.
	www.tonyhancock.org.uk /ham6news1.html (685 words)

	New Statesman: 1972: Television: Alf Takes Over - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If Speight ever applies the same self-censoring process to his own creation we shall be forced to see the programme for what it really is, a nasty mess spilled out of a gifted writer who seems to have lost cont rol over his own gut reactions.
		The last two programmes were especially brutish, stirring together so many kinds of bigotry that they took on a manic hatefulness impossible to chortle away without some collusion in it all.
		Speight is feeding what he set out to mock, hence his increasing difficulty in giving lines, let alone shape, to the subordinate characters around the central figure.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4465_128/ai_58447883 (744 words)

	ALL IN THE FAMILY: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON - DVD
		It has to be stated at the outset that I am one of the world's most ardent "All in the Family" fans--I believe this television series to be the greatest ever.
		Producer Norman Lear bought the rights to Johnny Speight's British kitchen-sink comedy "Till Death Do Us Part" and relocated it to Queens, New York, and in so doing he unwittingly rewrote the books on the power of the medium.
		A show that weekly served up major sociological story lines, dressing them in darkly comedic depictions of the ugliness of racism and intolerance, in "All in the Family", you were laughing at Archie Bunker, not with him.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/allinthefamilyseasontwo.htm (786 words)

	Till Death Us Do Part
		Although the idea for the series had been in the mind of its creator, Johnny Speight for several years, it wasn't until Frank Muir took over comedy at the BBC that production began, initially as a pilot but subsequently as a fully-fledged series.
		The comedy centred on the Garnett family, with the main "star" of the show in the person of the patriarch "Alf," sometimes known as "Chairman Alf" for his ready willingness to engage in scurrilous diatribes against the Conservative party.
		Through Alf, a cascade of fear and prejudice was given unique prime-time exposure and articulated with such passion that during its transmission, 12 million viewers (then half the adult British population) tuned in to watch.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/T/htmlT/tilldeathus/tilldeathus.htm (836 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Til Death Us Do Part
		was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1964 until 1974.
		With some irony, in real life Mitchell is both Jewish and a Spurs supporter, and Anthony Booth was to become the father-in-law of British prime minister, Tony Blair.
		It is sad to note that Johnny Speight based Alf on his father, an East End docker who had very backward attitudes to fl people.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Til_Death_Us_Do_Part (1038 words)

	Retired Magazines - Warren Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I don’t think I ever laughed as much as when Alf stood to attention for the National Anthem at Christmas, paper hat akimbo, eyes glazed from his lunch time down the pub, Mike and Rita sniggering on the sofa and Else adjusting her bosom with a disapproving air.
		Johnny Speight, Alf’s creator first started writing for radio scripting material for Frankie Howerd, Arthur Askey and odd ode man Cyril Fletcher.
		Warren and Johnny Speight refused, so she asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to endorse a charge of blasphemy against the BBC.
	www.retiredmagazines.co.uk /articles/alf.php (931 words)

	Alf Garnett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British public loved Alf Garnett, although the television show was heavily criticized for the character's prejudices.
		Writer Johnny Speight often commented that the character was supposed to be a figure of ridicule, but admits that not all viewers saw the satiric elements of the character.
		It is probably not a complete coincidence that Warren Mitchell as Alf Garnett looks exactly like Sir Rudyard Kipling, who has also been perceived as racist, however Mitchell was not the first choice of producer Dennis Main Wilson for the part.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alf_Garnett (347 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - The Arthur Haynes Show
		This tramp character - Hobo Haynes - was invented by Johnny Speight and the dialogue would crackle with belligerence and either implied or explicit physical threats.
		Throughout his ten-year reign as ITV's leading comic - a position for which he was generously compensated by ATV - Haynes was well supported by a number of regular comics, all of whom he promoted as much as he could, rightly realising that their work and happiness would make for better shows.
		Johnny Speight wrote the scripts, with the tramp character featuring prominently, and Nicholas Parsons reprised his TV role as the foil.
	www26.thdo.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/a/arthurhaynesshow_7770375.shtml (1248 words)

	IOFILM.CO.UK - Till Death Us Do Part: The Complete 1974 Series DVD review
		Johnny Speight, the man who created Alf Garnett, recalls how the BBC rationed him to 25 "bloodies" per script and how he did a deal with a BBC producer who said he could have one "tit" for every four "bloodies".
		Growing up in the East End was tough, Speight says, but his family were more fortunate than most, or so he thought.
		We see Speight with his flash motor - a silver Roller with a MOO 16 plate - and his posh house.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/270840 (616 words)

	BBC News \| Entertainment \| Alf Garnett's creator dies
		Born into an Irish Catholic family in London's East End, Johnny Speight was renowned for inventing controversial and outspoken characters in his screenplays.
		Johnny Speight became a very successful screenwriter and drove a Rolls Royce but he never lost touch with his working-class roots and was a life-long socialist.
		Geoffrey Perkins, Head of Comedy for the BBC, said: "Johnny Speight was a wonderfully funny writer."
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/127045.stm (372 words)

	The Avengers Forever: Warren Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It also can't have hurt that Johnny Speight, later to create Alf Garnett, was a contributor to Unity revues.
		Speight always insisted that his basis for including such terms was purely to point out the ignorance of real-life prejudice, and not to have done so would be as bad as claimimg that prejudice doesn't exist; he also admitted, having grown up in Wapping himself, that there were plenty of genuine Alfs about.
		Speight blamed the series' cancellation in 1992 on "political correctness gone mad", but frankly, dwindling audience size and interest was a more likely reason.
	theavengers.tv /forever/pnote-mitchell.htm (2832 words)

	Till Death Us Do Part
		It didn't take that long for Harry Enfield to spot that Stavros and Loadsamoney were having an effect diametrically opposed to his intentions, and to kill the characters off.
		So, the case for the defence is that Speight was a great writer who created one of the most powerful fictional characters in British fiction, comparable to the creations of Dickens, and that Mitchell was a superb actor who imbued this potentially hateful figure with humanity.
		Speight and Mitchell used to claim that somehow everything was okay because (a) it was comedy, and (b) both sides of an argument were shown.
	www.trashfiction.co.uk /till_death_us_do_part.html (889 words)

	Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Johnny Speight: MAIN
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	The British Theatre Guide: Antrobus Is Of Good Report
		Another veteran of television comedy, Johnny grew up in the East End as the son of a docker.
		After factory work and jobs as a milkman and a cook, he was introduced to Frankie Howerd, Eric Sykes and Spike Milligan, and began work on Frankie Howerd’s radio show.
		John is a pacifist, fresh out of Sandhurst, and Johnny’s a fan of George Bernard Shaw (and Stalin) from the East End of London.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /news/johnantrobus.htm (452 words)

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