British Comedy Guide

Schedule Tuesday 15th December 1959

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

Workers' Playtime

Episode 100

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

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 7:30pm
30 min
Whack-O!. Professor James Edwards (Headmaster) (Jimmy Edwards). Copyright: BBC

Whack-O!

Series 5, Episode 6

Comedy starring Jimmy Edwards as the scheming headmaster of not-so-prestigious private school Chiselbury.

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 6, Episode 12 - Hancock In Hospital

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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