I have this episode on DVD so I can enjoy watching at any I choose, which is possibly just as well because I doubt very much, that I will get the chance to watch this particular episode on the box, if it is screened anywhere it probably won't be for much longer.
I noticed recently that the television streaming service Britbox, is either screening Steptoe or contemplating it, and there was mention of some sort of alleged concerns, regarding the show and in particular this episode.
There was supposed to have been a worry, over the use of the word "jessy" used about one the characters, this would be nonsensical as that's a mild word compared, to the one that was uttered repeatedly by both Albert and Harold Steptoe.
Steptoe and Son was made and originally broadcast between the years 1962 and 1974, when words like the one used here were in common parlance, this show and its characters may not be thought of cockneys in the traditional sense of the word.
But the area that Steptoe was set in, would certainly have known the Cockney rhyming slang, which is why it's often used by both the two principle characters and other locals in the show. Cockney slang contains many diverse phrases, and it's always been commonly used to disguise social attitudes, the slang phrase Iron Hoof oft abreviated, to simply Iron is one that's particularly relevant here.
Steptoe and Son is a show of its time and place using language that is representative of both, but where attitudes are discussed and argued over by its principle protagonists in an open and frank manner, they depict real people with real personal views and attitudes.
There is no real need to guess what kind of TV comedies that tomorrow my bring, the yanks have been turning them out like shelling peas, written by a committee of writers aided and abetted by 'Focus Groups, to ensure the shows meet the required criteria.