British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 21st January 1958

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

Workers' Playtime

Episode 6

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

BBC radio microphone. Copyright: BBC 8pm
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 5, Episode 1 - The New Radio 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.

ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV 8:30pm
30 min
ITV1 logo. Credit: ITV

Life With The Lyons

Series 3, Episode 10

TV version of the famed 1950-61 radio sitcom of the same name, starring real life family Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels and children Barbara and Richard.

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