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...
New Sketch Show For BBC…
It has been revealed in this week's press that comedian David Walliams is to write a new sketch show for the BBC, ten years after Little Britain ended.https://youtu.be/b0DvK7saV0IIt means time will be c...
Albert Has A VIP Guest Coming To Tea…
Steptoe and Son - Tea For Two, 1970
Well it's election day 2015, so we thought we'd find somthing topical, well almost it's 45 years since this episode was first broadcast.Tea For Two was originally broadc...
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...
Galton And Simpson Present – Part 5
Steptoe And Son - The Desperate Hours, 1972
As we reach the end of this series, for the penultimate part Galton and Simpson turn their attention to their other huge success: Steptoe and Son.G&S: The ep...
Galton and Simpson Discuss The Beginnings Of Hancock.
60 Years This Year - The first ever Hancock's Half Hour was broadcast on BBC Radio
We've spent the last few days in the company of legendary scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, we've discussed Comedy Pl...
Galton And Simpson Talk Steptoe – Part 2
We left matters in the 1960's with the series being a runaway success, we pick up the story in 1965.BCC: Did you feel Steptoe had come to a natural end in 1965 after four seriesG & S: Yes we did, we...
Galton and Simpson Talk Steptoe – Part 1
To celebrate 60 years since the original transmission of Hancock's Half Hour, we spoke to legendary script writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. We discussed the origins of Hancock's Half Hour, the TV series th...
BBC Name The Date For Hancock’s Return
BBC Radio 4 present, The Missing Hancocks
Earlier this year we and other media reported that the BBC were to re-record five episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, the radio show to celebrate sixty years since it's f...
Steptoe and Son – Night Of 100 Stars
We featured a collection of Steptoe sketches earlier this year, whilst researching for another post we came across this.The Night of 100 Stars was a charity gala performance at the London Palladium on 23rd ...