British Comedy Guide

A Story Of Our Time: What Happened To Hancock?

  • Radio documentary
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 1971
  • 1 episode

Documentary about Tony Hancock, hearing from many of his colleagues and co-stars. Also features Phillip Oakes, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Ralph Reader, Duncan Wood and more.

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Genre
Documentary
Broadcast
1971
Episodes
1
Features
Phillip Oakes, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Ralph Reader, Duncan Wood, Sid James, Beryl Vertue, Sylvia Syms and more
Writers
Phillip Oakes
Company

Throughout his career Tony Hancock was a perfectionist, searching for some indefinable and unattainable peak of 'pure' comedy. It was a search that brought him both triumph and disaster. He was still searching when he died tragically in Australia in June 1968.

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