Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock is a loser whose plans and aspirations are continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition. Stars Tony Hancock, Bill Kerr, Sid James, Moira Lister, Kenneth Williams and more.
Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC Radio comedy series.
Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes...
Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC radio comedy series.
Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancock's Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes...
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are two of the most influential and celebrated television scriptwriters of our time. Praised for inventing the sitcom, their own seminal creations are still standing the test of time with modern audiences - Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe & Son are two of the most...
Over 100 episodes of Hancock's Half Hour were produced and broadcast, first on BBC radio from 1954 and then on TV from 1956. Receiving critical acclaim at the time, and making a star of the cantankerous Tony Hancock and roguish Sid James, Hancock's Half Hour made history as the grumpy...
Tony Hancock stars in two long-lost episodes from the classic radio series:
Series 3 episode 8, The Diet (7 December 1955)
Series 4 episode 3, Sid James's Dad (28 October 1956)
With the BBC's master copies long wiped, these rare home recordings are made available for the first time in over...
This title presents two rediscovered episodes of the classic radio series:
Series 3 Episode 6 - The Blackboard Jungle
Series 4 Episode 5 - The New Secretary
The Blackboard Jungle sees Hancock playing a young English master, attempting to tame a class of unruly pupils. Can he win their respect -...
Many people consider Tony Hancock to be the finest comic actor of them all. November 2004 sees the 50th anniversary of his best-loved work, Hancock's Half Hour, which began as a radio series, penned by the writers Galton and Simpson.
Two years later, the first of 58 TV instalments had...
This set includes all 14 shows from the sixth series, plus four episodes recorded for the BBC Transcription Service, a 1958 Christmas special, and the rediscovered Series 4 episode The Stolen Petrol.
These CDs contain the 18 surviving shows from the fifth radio series of Hancock's Half Hour. An accompanying booklet contains a history of the show with contemporary press extracts and photos, episode synopses and cast.
17 episodes from the fourth series of Hancock's Half Hour, the groundbreaking radio sitcom by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.