Hancock’s Half Hour, The Cruise, 1959 From the fifth series of this classic series comes a little gem. First broadcast...
Hancock’s 43 minutes, 1957 Tony’s throwing a Christmas party! well sort of. Hancock’s 43 minutes came at the end of...
The Missing Hancocks, 2014 In November 1954 Ray Galton and Alan Simpson broke with the traditional format of comedy, ie...
Up the Chastity Belt, 1971 Up the Chastity Belt was a 1971 film, the second spin-off from the TV series...
Casanova ’73 This is what I love about British Classic Comedy, you get to discover shows you didn’t know about,...
Comedy Playhouse, 1961 After Tony Hancock left the BBC, a replacement comedy show was required. As a result of this,...
BBC Landmark Comedy Season – Lost Sitcoms – Hancock’s Half Hour The second of the BBC’s re-makes, this time it’s...
Galton And Simpson’s Comedy Playhouse: The Handyman, 1963 The story so far… Tom Sloan then Head of Light Entertainment had...
Steptoe And Son, Homes Fit For Heroes, 1964 Proving that elderly care was a problem even back then is this...
The Galton And Simpson Playhouse – 1977 After Steptoe ans Son ended in 1974, Galton and Simpson continued to write...