Anthony Booth (Tony Blair's father in law) played his son-in-law, Mike, a Labour supporter whom Alf called various names including "Shirley Temple" among other things because of his long hair. The show rarely ever strayed beyond the tiny set of Alf's living room in Wapping (the walls used to wobble whenever Alf banged his fist against them in anger) and it was very weakly plotted but it ran for ten years and Alf Garnett was superbly portrayed by Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols was fine as his long suffering wife, Else, whom Alf referred too as the "silly moo".
Even though a lot of people find the show objectionable, it is still a milestone in British TV history because it changed the face of television in the way it said things and how it said them. Alf's racist and bigoted views often ensured that there was many complaints from angry viewers. This long running and extremely successful TV sitcom series created by writer Johnny Speight was also very controversial. A bigoted docker from East London, Alf Garnett, is always getting his family into trouble with his ramblings about race, religion and politics.
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