also during 1967, stigwood purchased a controlling interest in associated london scripts, a writers' agency co-founded by spike milligan and eric sykes around 1954, in which many of britain's best comedy and television scriptwriters had been involved. beryl vertue from als was appointed as deputy chairman; vertue was responsible for selling the formats to american producers of the tv series "all in the family" and "sanford and son", which were adapted from the popular british tv shows "till death us do part" and "steptoe and son".