Raymond Percy Galton, born on 17 July 1930 and died on 5 October 2018, was an English radio and television scriptwriter. He was best known as part of the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Alan Simpson. Together they devised and wrote the 1950s and 1960s BBC sitcoms Hancock's Half Hour, which ran from 1954 to 1961, the first two series of Comedy Playhouse from 1961 to 1963, and Steptoe and Son, which ran from 1962 to 1974.
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He accepted an OBE in 2000 and he and Simpson received a BAFTA Fellowship on 8 May 2016.
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Raymond Percy Galton (17 July 1930-5 October 2018) was an English radio and television scriptwriter.
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
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