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Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter

Galton and Simpson – I Did It My Way

September 19, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
The BBC's Landmark Comedy Season was supposed to celebrate 60 years since Hancock's Half Hour came to television.  Among all the expectations and variety of shows there seemed to be somthing very obviously wron...

The Galton And Simpson Playhouse

September 16, 2016
1970's, 1970's ITV Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
The Galton And Simpson Playhouse - 1977 After Steptoe ans Son ended in 1974, Galton and Simpson continued to write but the media would have us believe any further high profile hits seemed to alude them.In ...
bob monkhouse and denis goodwin were the early writers for hit BBC radi show Calling All Forces

Calling All Forces

July 5, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...
vintage bbc logo as would have probably been used around the time of the light program

Happy Go Lucky, 1951

July 3, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
As part of our celebrations of the 70th anniversary of Hancock's Half Hour TV series we are turning this week over to Tony Hancock: charting his career from his early days in Happy Go Lucky and Educating Archie...

Steptoe And Son: The Radio Series

May 24, 2016
1960's, 1960's BBC Comedy, 1970's, 1970's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Radio
Steptoe And Son - The Radio Series - 1966 - 1976 There was a time when Radio was the medium of the day, then Television arrived and as we have seen some great radio comedy edged it's way onto our TV screens. ...
galton and simpson to receive Bafta fellowship

Fellowship Award

May 8, 2016
Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, Latest News
Comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to be honoured with a Bafta fellowship at this year's ceremony. The duo, who created Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son, are credited as "the trailblazers of...
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Up the Chastity Belt, 1971

April 8, 2016
Film Spin Offs, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Up the Chastity Belt was a 1971  film the second spin-off from the TV series Up Pompeii! that had made it's big screen debut earlier the same year.There were some notable names amongst the cast including Fr...

Clochemerle, 1972

February 24, 2016
1970's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Mention Galton and Simpson and most will say Hancock or Steptoe, but there was a great deal morer to the legendary scriptwriters' work including this adaptation.Clochemerle, was originally a 1934 French sat...

The East Cheam Repertory Company, 1957

December 15, 2015
1950's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter
Hancock's 43 Minutes, BBC TV series, Christmas Special, 1957 Personally I'm going to miss my weekly Hancock fix on the radio, when next week the latest series of Missing Hancocks comes to an end next Monday 21...

Cruising With Hancock

July 20, 2015
1950's, 1950's BBC Comedy, Galton and Simpson’s Legacy Of Laughter, TV Comedy
Hancock's Half Hour, The Cruise, 1959 Starting a week of posts on the theme of holidays, today we're going cruising with Tony Hancock.From the fifth series of this classic series comes a little gem.  First...
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