Editing Till Death Us Do Part (section)

===Revival===

The programme was revived in 1972, during a time when the BBC were reviving some of their more successful sitcoms from the 1960s for colour production (''[[Steptoe and Son]]'' being an example). A contributory factor to this decision may have been that, since the ITV franchise changes of the summer of 1968, ITV had paid a lot more attention to making sitcoms, particularly those featuring, and appealing to, the working class, which had previously been the preserve of the BBC during the 1960s. This can be attributed as a direct effect of the popularity of ''Till Death Us Do Part'', ''[[The Likely Lads]]'' and ''Steptoe and Son'', which were the first sitcoms to truly depict the realities of working-class life in Britain and were not set in typical "middle-class sitcom suburbia". In amongst these programmes, ''Till Death Us Do Part'' would not look as out of place as it did in the late 1960s, particularly now as the show would be less topical (bar some 1974 episodes) but no less political or controversial, as it had originally been. This was of great help to Speight, as it now meant that he did not have to wait until the very last minute to submit completed or half-completed scripts.