Hancock's Half Hour: The Very Best Episodes Volume 1

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It is hard to officially declare anything as a first, especially in the arts and particularly in the field of British comedy, a place where naturally every great comic is heavily influenced by their predecessors, who in turn were influenced by their predecessors, who had taken to the stage in smoky music halls, long before the advent of television or even radio. The producer Duncan Wood stated in an interview many years later, what a challenge it was going to be. With an almost Shakespearean level of timelessness to his comedy and tragedy to his personal life, Tony Hancock should be recognised and revered as one of the primary founders of modern British comedy.

They haven't gone, they're just 'resting between engagements' as we so delicately put it in show business. For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare--poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. He was so gripped by fear that before these recordings he could be found locked in his dressing room dry-heaving. The 9 Step Negativity Detox is a powerful series that will teach you the nine simple steps to free you from the unnecessary causes of negativity in your life. Tony Hancock has been unfairly criticised for his decisions, to leave out members of the radio series for the television show.Most memorable is a scene in which Tony finds a young boy, who he usually despises for disrupting his Punch and Judy performances, standing bedraggled, having been caught in a terrible downpour on the seafront. And lately, many comedies from the past have been subject to scrutiny, series from only fifteen or twenty years ago have been deemed irrevocably dated, and, if we're honest, some are.

So don't let the grainy pictures put you off, and there are plenty of the excellent radio shows availble, it's been nearly half a century, but they're definately still a worthwhile half hour. My favourite episode is the last one, “The Threatening Letters,” where Hancock receives a number of letters from a disgruntled listener who has vowed to kill him.always makes me laughs when he starts singing coughs and sneezes spreads diseases, also finding the guy in the bed next to him is so similar to him and they end up saying quotes to eachother, and being told that blood is the same world over by the nurse - "I did not come here for a lecture on communism, young lady!

This section contains a synopsis of all epsiodes of Hancock's Half Hour, Hancock and the ITV Series.

This collection contains all 37 surviving episodes, from 1956 to 1961, of the classic TV sitcom written by Galton and Simpson, featuring East Cheam's most famous resident, Tony Hancock, alongside supporting stars including Sid James and Kenneth Williams.