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Hancock's Half Hour. Image shows from L to R: Sidney James (Sid James), Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (Tony Hancock), Bill Kerr (Bill Kerr)
Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour

  • Radio sitcom
  • BBC Light Programme
  • 1954 - 1959
  • 107 episodes (6 series)

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.

  • Series 3, Episode 2 repeated tomorrow at 7:30am on Radio 4 Extra

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Hancock's Half Hour trivia

None of the episodes were originally given titles: writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson kept informal names in their own records. The generally accepted/used titles, which we have recorded, are a mix of these and slightly more descriptive titles, often invented by the Radio Times.

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