Workers Playtime
Workers Playtime, 1941
Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 and 1964. Originally the show was intended as a morale-booster for industrial workers in Brit...
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 ...
Hancock’s Sunday Afternoon
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 ...
Tony’s Last Half Hour..
Hancock Down Under -1968
After failing to re-spark his career after the break with Galton and Simpson in 1961, Tony Hancock found himself in Australia after being contracted to make a 13-part series, Hancock ...
Tony Hancock’s First Big Screen Outing….
The Rebel, 1961
It's 1961. Thanks to the superb scripts written for him by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, comedian Tony Hancock is one of Britain's biggest stars.With the Hancock's Half Hour TV and Radio sho...
Hancock’s Last Eight Years
Screen One, Hancock, 1991
Screen One was a BBC series of unrelated one off TV movies. In 1991 the subject was Tony Hancock.Whist the episode made good TV it came in for some harsh criticism for some of it...
Hancock And Joan
Hancock And Joan, 2008
First shown in 2008 as part of the BBC's Curse Of Comedy series, Hancock and Joan was nominated in three categories at the 2009 British Academy Television Awards: best actor for Ken Stot...
Sixty Years Since The Last Hancock’s Half Hour
Hancock's Half Hour - The Final Series?
60 Years Since Hancock's Final Half Hour!
It was 1960 and Tony Hancock had been ruling the TV and Radio airwaves since 1954 when the first radio series was broadcast.
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Re-Making Dad’s Army, Vandalism?
Dad's Army, Remake branded "cultural vandalism"
We Ask, Bring Them back Or Leave Them Junked?UKTV Gold has re-made three missing episodes of Dad's Army that are due to be screened later this month on GOLD ...
The Blackpool Show
The Blackpool Show, 1966
Continuing our look back at some of the less well remembered work of Tony Hancock.The Blackpool Show was Hancock's penultimate series for ITV and offered him a complete departure f...