British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 15th February 1955

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 12:25pm
30 min
BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC

Workers' Playtime

Episode 13

Long-running lunchtime variety series broadcast live from workplaces across Britain.

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 8:30pm
30 min
The Goon Show. Image shows from L to R: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe. Copyright: BBC

The Goon Show

Series 5, Episode 21 - The Sinking of Westminster Pier

Oyster-loving Neddie Seagoon takes to the River Thames, which is soon draining away.

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 9:30pm
30 min
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

Series 1, Episode 16 - The End Of The 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.

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