The one legged twins line is a true classic !
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I've been buying the volumes of the Hancock DVD's in a random order and finished my collection yesterday buying Volume 1 and the DVD titled The Very Best of Tony Hancock and features five episodes from the 1961 series Hancock.
Two things are puzzling me however. Firstly, as an extra I have something called 'Hancock's Forty Three Minutes'. Is this a sitcom episode of is it a sketch format.
Secondly, the DVD of the 1961 series Hancock, has all the episodes from that series except one, titled 'The Succession: Son and Heir'. Is this available at all on DVD?
http://www.archive.org/movies/thumbnails.php?identifier=Hancock06
It was a Christmas special in a variety show style with TH as compere. Note it anticipates Morcambe and Wise by a good few years !
The Succession - Son and heir is on disc 8 of the BBC box set which is the 'extras' disc.
That reminds me, I really do need to finish off and publish our HHH TV episodes guide.
Jack, sell the individual volumes and buy the box set.
Quote: Aaron @ January 1 2010, 5:39 PM GMTThat reminds me, I really do need to finish off and publish our HHH TV episodes guide.
Jack, sell the individual volumes and buy the box set.
CBA for one episode.
The 'extras' disc also contains PDFs of every script. So you can still get (half of) the experience of the missing episodes. It really is worth it. 
Them PDF's. I've got them on several DVD's I own and they look interesting, but I don't have the software on my computer to run them. I don't want to buy the software either, as them programmes do cost a bit.
It's free.
May consider getting that. But my computer hates things being downloaded, so wouldn't want to risk it affecting my computer.
Your computer called Orac by any chance Jack?
Has anybody mentioned that HHH (radio series) goes out on BBC Radio 7?
It's on Wednesdays at the moment, 8am repeated at 12 noon and 7pm.
Been watching episodes from Volume 1 in the DVD series, so the earliest surviving episodes. They have moments of timeless classic comedy moments, such as Hancock having an argument with a Postman played by Dick Emery where even Hancock can't keep a straight face and Hancock going into a Police-station as a lawyer and gets into lots of trouble for driving offences. But does anybody else think that the plots were a little too far fetched in some places and not enough warmth to the Sid James character. Yet, in later episodes, all this for me was solved, what with Sid becoming warmer and the plots being a bit more believable.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still loving the early episodes, but not as much as the later episodes.
Yeah, the characters changed a bit, as in the radio series (which was still broadcasting, don't forget). I think the dynamic at both ends of the run works equally well, buuut, my personal tastes would swing toward the latter too.
Hancock - a flawed human being who you would not trust near your wife, daughter or drinks cabinet but, in his day, a man capable of transforming a well-written script into a work of genius. A product of his time but a legend who believed he was bigger than the sum of all his parts. He has very few equals and I, for one, will never tire of listening to his work.
Justed watched the first episode of 'Hancock' (Hancock without Sid James). Watched the episode 'The Bedsitter' Nice to see the book 'Lady Don't Fall Backwards' get a mention, the book of which the last page was missing in one of the best (if not the best) 'Hancock's Half Hour' episode 'The Missing Page'