Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

Ray Galton & Alan Simpson were a British comedy scriptwriting partnership. They met in 1948 whilst recuperating from tuberculosis at the Milford sanatorium, near Godalming in Surrey, England. Together they devised and wrote Hancock's Half Hour (1954–1961), the first two series of Comedy Playhouse (1961–1963), and Steptoe and Son (1962–1974).