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Albert & Herbert (1974)

Albert & Herbert poster
Directed by
Bo Hermansson
Genre
comedy television series
Country
Sweden
Length
7 seasons, 57 episodes
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This Swedish comedy series follows a father and son who run a scrap business together and share a home. The two often clash over their different outlooks on life and their cramped living situation.

humorouslightheartedquirkywarmodd-couplelow-stakesdomesticclassic sitcom

What happens

Albert & Herbert was a Swedish comedy series that ran in 1974, 1976–1979, and 1981–82, in addition to an advent series and a theatre play titled Mordet på Skolgatan 15. It had a spin-off series in 1995. Albert & Herbert, which featured father-and-son scrap dealers living together, was an adaptation of Ray Galton and Alan Simpsons's BBC series Steptoe and Son from the 1960s and 1970s. Albert was played by Sten-Åke Cederhök, and the son Herbert was played by Tomas von Brömssen. During the first six episodes, Herbert was played by Lennart Lundh. The characters lived in a dilapidated wooden house in Skolgatan 15, in Haga, Gothenburg. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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