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Corbett jumps at the chance to play junk-dealer Harold Steptoe in a television comedy show \u0027Steptoe and Son\u0027. However, the show\u0027s success proves to be a poisoned chalice for him, type-casting him and thwarting his stage ambitions. Wilfrid Brambell, the actor playing his father, is marginalized in a different way. He is a gay man in an England where homosexuality is still illegal. 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