Hancock’s Half Hour, Sunday Afternoon At Home, 1958
There was a time when Sundays really were “dead boring” The shops were shut the pubs didn’t open all day. Seems hard to believe in this age of 24/7, but in the 1950’s that was exactly what it was like.
In ‘Sunday Afternoon At Home’ Galton and Simpson’s brilliant script perfectly illustrates the boredom of a wet Sunday Afternoon.
Summary
Griselda Pugh: Ooh look! It’s started raining!
Hancock: That’s all we wanted. You watch, it’ll go dark in a minute, we’ll have to switch the lights on. I think I’ll go to bed.
And so we are treated to a miserable Sunday afternoon at 23 Railway Cuttings.
Stuck indoors, Hancock tries to while away a wet Sunday afternoon in complete boredom. Then the neighbour calls….
There’s a brilliant line where the lad has go at Miss Pugh’s cooking” …I thought my mother was a bad cook, but at least her gravy used to move about. Yours just sort of lies there and sets”.
Clips
Cast
Tony Hancock
Sid James
Bill Kerr
Hattie Jacques
Kenneth Williams
Details
Channel: BBC Light Programme
Written By; Ray Galton And Alan Simpson
Original Transmission Date: 22nd April 1958