Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

Cast: Paul Whitehouse, Harry Enfield, Don Gilet, Lee Ross, Tony Gardner, Mika Simmons, Simon Greenall, Phil Cornwell, Toby Longworth, Andrew McGibbon, Ian Pearce, Karen Bartke.

Out of adversity comes genius, from hardship come friendship that lasts a lifetime, and When Alan Met Ray in a T.B. sanitorium in post war Britain, when neither 18-year-old were expected to live much longer thanks to the disease the world called White Plague or Consumption ravaging their lungs and body, what came out of this terrible situation was a comradeship for Alan Simpson and Ray Galton that transcended disease and saw the pair became two of Britain’s much loved providers of comedy thanks to their working with Tony Hancock on radio and television, and the irreplaceable Harry H. Corbett and Wilfred Brambell on the sheer delight that was Steptoe And Son.