British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 11th February 1958

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

Workers' Playtime

Episode 12

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 4 - The Insurance Policy

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

East End - West End

Episode 2

1958 sitcom starring Sid James as a man who will do anything to make a bit of money.

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