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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 389390" data-attributes="member: 23">Absolutely. The writing is credited to Johnny Speight and Barry Cryer, but it&#039;s clear that Warren Mitchell is also calling upon some of the lines as needed. Every single thing he says is pure Alf Garnett, and many are familiar having been peppered throughout the various series. Incidentally, I found it quite moving to see the text at the end which serves as a kind of dedication to Johnny Speight who died some months before these episodes aired. I believe this is the reason Warren Mitchell retired the character, and that&#039;s fully understandable since Alf is as much Johnny as he is Warren. When looking into the viewing order and exploring the various titles available on DVD I got so confused about which ones fitted where. There&#039;s this series which has an almost identical title to the one-off from 1980. Then there&#039;s Till Death... from 1981 which I initially thought was a repackaged DVD edition of Till Death Us Do Part. Also, I plan to round things off with the feature film version of Till Death Us Do Part which came along between the first and second incarnations of the series with the same title, but which apparently exists in a separate reality from these or any of the other Alf vehicles.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 389390, member: 23"] Absolutely. The writing is credited to Johnny Speight and Barry Cryer, but it's clear that Warren Mitchell is also calling upon some of the lines as needed. Every single thing he says is pure Alf Garnett, and many are familiar having been peppered throughout the various series. Incidentally, I found it quite moving to see the text at the end which serves as a kind of dedication to Johnny Speight who died some months before these episodes aired. I believe this is the reason Warren Mitchell retired the character, and that's fully understandable since Alf is as much Johnny as he is Warren. When looking into the viewing order and exploring the various titles available on DVD I got so confused about which ones fitted where. There's this series which has an almost identical title to the one-off from 1980. Then there's [I]Till Death...[/I] from 1981 which I initially thought was a repackaged DVD edition of [I]Till Death Us Do Part. [/I] Also, I plan to round things off with the feature film version of [I]Till Death Us Do Part [/I]which came along between the first and second incarnations of[I] [/I]the series with the same title, but which apparently exists in a separate reality from these or any of the other Alf vehicles. [/QUOTE]

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