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These polls are quite pointless if you're not that interested in the history of British Sitcom, because if you've never watched the entire 8 series of Steptoe and Son, then how can you claim that Alan Partridge is better and expect to be taken seriously?

Most people who watched Steptoe and Son are likely to be dead now, so they don't get to vote in these polls. The people that are voting have probably never seen some of the classics from the Golden age of British sitcom.