Ich habe mich immer darüber geärgert, dass "Ekel Alfred" Wolfgang Menge zugeschrieben wird. "Ekel Alfred" ist aber nur die Adaption einer englischen Serie, in der das Ekel "Alf" heißt und sogar die Tochter hat den Namen "Rita." Mit einem Wort, es ist nicht Wolfgang Mengws kreative Leistung.
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Til Death Us Do Part (also known as Till Death Us do Part)1 was a BBC television sitcom series written by Johnny Speight that ran from 1964 until 1974. The programme starred Warren Mitchell as the racist East End misogynist (and Rudyard Kipling lookalike) Alf Garnett. Also appearing in the series were Dandy Nichols as Alf's long-suffering wife, Else, Una Stubbs as his daughter and Anthony Booth as his layabout son-in-law, whose socialist leanings were the cue for many of Alf's more offensive outbursts. The series was remade in the United States as the enormously successful sitcom All in the Family (1971-1979) and in Germany (1973 - 1976) as Ein Herz und eine Seele ("One Heart and One Soul"). There was even a version in Israel, where the Alf character would spout bigoted remarks about the Arabs.
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