BBC News actually showed one of the egg ads today!
I was, understandably, thrilled beyond words.
Quote: Blenkinsop @ February 11 2009, 11:59 PM GMTNot may sitcoms make the transition to the big screen all that well but I've always thought that The Rebel was one that bucked the trend
You reckon that The Rebel was essentially Hancock's Half Hour then...?
Quote: Aaron @ February 12 2009, 12:02 AM GMTBBC News actually showed one of the egg ads today!
I was, understandably, thrilled beyond words.
You reckon that The Rebel was essentially Hancock's Half Hour then...?
What were they thinking about? Before we know what's happening we'll all be egg-bound and the nation will fall to pieces.
Join with me in condemning this work of Beelzebub before it's too late.
Eggs is evil - end of!
On your question:
No more his ninety minutes. It had the same sort of pace and delivery but it was allowed to extend its theme to fill the available time.
I could see a truncated version of the Rebel script working for a standard 30 min episode though.
All too often the big screen version of popular sitcoms tried too hard - more bad language and overtly sexual content etc. The Rebel, thankfully, never made this blunder.
Anybody seen The Punch and Judy Man?
Had a nice empty house tonight, made myself a pasta dish, got a bottle of red wine and sat down and watched The Rebel. Funny stuff, but I thought it was going to be better. I'd have expected a bit more from Hancock, Galton and Simpson.
Quote: Aaron @ February 12 2009, 12:02 AM GMTBBC News actually showed one of the egg ads today!
I was, understandably, thrilled beyond words.
Lots of them on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=hancock+eggs&aq=f
Yes, but it wasn't on YouTube where they were decided not to be shown because of concerns over the health implications of "go to work on an egg". 
Has anyone else read the recent John Fisher biography? By gum that were a good read. About as in depth as any showbiz biography I've ever read and with some real insight and empathy to Hancock's tragic life. I came away from the book admiring him for always wanting to perfect his art and move on, but equally angered that he screwed it all up by boozing his talent to buggery. One of the greatest comic actors who ever lived and as Fisher points out in his epilogue, if the booze hadn't got him there's no end to what he might have achieved.
To all the fans of the brilliant Rebel, I recommend a recent film, called Art school Confidential.
Does it have ol' Tone in? 
