A History Of Christmas Specials

Where Did The Festive Favourite Start? As we approach the festive season we look out for those timeless pieces of TV - the Christmas Special.  With modern sitcoms failing to live up to the standards  of the fi...

Hancock Becomes A Druid

Hancock's Half Hour, The 13th Of The Series, 1957 Hancock's Half Hour, The 13th Of The Series strangely enough was the thirteenth episode of the fourth series of the popular radio comedy series.In this epi...

Tony Hancock Gets It Wrong

Hancock's Half Hour, The Bits That Went Wrong We came across this and thought readers might enjoy some vintage fluffs with the lad himself Tony Hancock.https://youtu.be/Xg-hPQG49So   ...

The Blackpool Show

The Blackpool Show, 1966 Think Tony Hancock and you'll immediately think Hancock's Half Hour.  Many people think that Tony did very little after his departure from the BBC there are a number less well remember...

Face To Face With Tony Hancock

Face To Face, Tony Hancock, 1960 Face to face was an ongoing series of insightful and probing interviews with a range of well known people of the time.  It appeared irregularly over 35 interviews between 1959 ...

The Punch And Judy Man

The Punch And Judy Man, 1963 In a 2014 interview Ray Galton and Alan Simpson told us they had a three picture deal with Tony Hancock.  The first - The Rebel, was a huge success, the scriptwriters submitted an ...