Editing Steptoe and Son (section)

==Episodes==
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''Steptoe and Son'' is rare among 1960s BBC television programmes, in that every episode has survived and exists in the BBC Archives, despite the mass [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|wiping]] of many BBC archive holdings between 1967 and 1978. However, all the instalments from the first 1970 series and all but two from the second were originally made in colour and are only known to survive in the form of black and white domestic videotape recordings. Copies were made from the master tapes for the writers by an engineer at the BBC using a Shibaden SV-700 half-inch reel-to-reel video recorder—a forerunner of the [[video cassette recorder]]. In 2008, the first reel of a black and white [[telerecording]] of the Series 5 episode "A Winter's Tale" (lasting approximately 15 minutes) was returned to the BBC; this is the only telerecording of a colour ''Steptoe and Son'' episode known to still exist. Of the 30 episodes produced in colour, 17 exist in their original colour format.

The original [[2" Quadruplex videotape|2" Quad videotapes]] of all the episodes of the original 1962–65 series were wiped in the late 1960s. However, these episodes mostly survive on film transfers of the original videotapes as 16mm black and white telerecordings. The exceptions to this are "The Stepmother", "The Wooden Overcoats", "The Lodger" and "My Old Man's a Tory", which exist as optical transfers made from domestic 405 line reel to reel videotapes obtained from writers Galton and Simpson.

The BBC has released 10 [[DVD]]s of the series—each of the eight series, and two compilations entitled "The Very Best of Steptoe and Son" volumes 1 and 2. Two Christmas specials are also available on DVD, as are [[List of films based on British sitcoms|two feature films]]: ''[[Steptoe and Son (film)|Steptoe and Son]]'' and ''[[Steptoe and Son Ride Again]]''. A boxed set of Series 1–8 and the two Christmas specials was released on Region 2 DVD by 2entertain on 29 October 2007.

In addition, 52 episodes were remade for [[BBC Radio]], initially on the [[BBC Light Programme|Light Programme]] in 1966–67 and later [[BBC Radio 2|Radio 2]] from 1971 to 1976.

A special one-off remake of the "A Winter's Tale" episode aired on [[BBC Four]] on 14 September 2016, as part of the BBC's Lost Sitcom season recreating lost episodes of classic sitcoms.