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...
Hancock’s Half Hour, TV Show
Hancock's Half Hour, 1956
The original radio series is often referred to as the first British sitcom. Hancock’s Half Hour, transferred onto television alongside the popular radio show of the same name in...
Back From His Holidays Tony Is Looking Forward to Being Home
Tony Hancock, The Unluckiest Man To Return From Holiday
Poor old Tony Hancock, not only does he have a miserable time on holiday but things don't get much better on his return.In perhaps one of the best ep...
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
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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 ...
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...
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 ...
Happy Go Lucky
Happy Go Lucky, 1951
Last week we told you the story of two Englishmen a boat trip to the USA and the influence they would have over comedy as we know it.Whilst the movies kept the world laughing for many...