Happy Go Lucky, 1951
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
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.
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Fellowship Award
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...
Up the Chastity Belt, 1971
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...
The Tea Ladies, 1979
In talking to Tessa Le Bars she told us about a sitcom that we hadn't heard of, naturally we wanted to know more. Very little information exists on this show and regretably Tessa couldn't remember anything muc...
Clochemerle, 1972
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
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
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...
The World’s Most Famous Rag And Bone Men….
Steptoe and Son, 1962
Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom about a Father and Son, who are rag and bone men. Set at the fictional address of Oil Drum Lane in Shepherd’s Bush, London.
The program ran for eig...
Galton And Simpson Present – Part 6
Divided We Stand, 1972
For the last five weeks legendary scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson have been sharing their favourite episodes from their hugely successful career. Today we reach the final part...