Omnibus – Tony Hancock
Omnibus - Tony Hancock, From East Cheam To Earls Court, 1985
Omnibus was an award winning BBC documentary TV series. When we started this site the aim was to feature the best of British comic talent and nosta...
Hancock’s Half Hour, TV Show
Hancock's Half Hour, 1956
Often referred to as the first British sitcom. Hancock’s Half Hour, transferred onto television from the popular radio show of the same name in 1956 and continued until 1960, after ...
Galton And Simpson Present – 4
Our Favourite Hancock - Part 4
The Wild Man Of The Woods
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Hancock's Half Hour on BBC Radio, comedy scriptwriting legends Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ...
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...