Alan Simpson: 1929 – 2017
Legendary Comedy Writer Alan Simpson Has Died, Aged 87
Alan Simpson of writing duo Galton and Simpson has died at the age of 87, his manager has said.
The pair created sitcoms including Hancock's Half Hour an...
Galton And Simpson’s Casanova
Casanova '73
This is what I love about British Classic Comedy, you get to discover shows you didn't know about, usually quite by accident, whilst researching something else.Thought you knew all of Ray Galt...
Steptoe and Son – A Winter’s Tale
BBC Landmark Comedy Season - The Lost Sitcoms
On 14th September as the season begins to draw to a close BBC 4 broadcast the last of their lost sitcoms. This time it's Steptoe and Son - A Winter's Tale.Ori...
Calling All Forces
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...
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...
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...
We Talk To Tessa Le Bars
Tessa Le Bars is a lady who entered the entertainment world as a "Girl Friday" working for initially Associated London Scripts and then onto The Robert Stigwood Organisation. She went on to represent some of t...
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...
Tony’s Going On An Economy Drive
Hancock's Half Hour, The Economy Drive
With all the constant talk of cuts and osterity it reminded me of a little gem from Hancock's Half Hour.Taken from the start of the fifth television series there are ...