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  • Actors: Tony Hancock
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • VHS Release Date: 7 Jun 1999
  • Run Time: 126 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00004CYT3
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,090 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Five specially selected episodes brought together as a tribute to the comic genius.

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A tribute to the legendary Tony Hancock, star of HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR. Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.

Hancock's Half Hour dominated radio and TV in the late 50s and early 60s - at the height of its popularity, the BBC was inundated with complaints from publicans and shopkeepers whose businesses suffered when it was broadcast! It has remained the benchmark by which other comedy series are measured. These five complete episodes represent the very best of Hancock's Half Hour and demonstrate exactly why Tony Hancock is a Comedy Great.

THE BEDSITTER Originally transmitted 26 May 1961 It's a futile, endless, boring Sunday afternoon in bedsit land. Until the phone rings...

THE BOWMANS Originally transmitted 2 June 1961 An Everyday story of Old Joshua Merryweather, unceremoniously sacked from the cast of this Archer's spoof.

THE RADIO HAM Originally transmitted 9 June 1961 The good news for the stranded yacht, is that its mayday signal has been picked up by a radio ham. The bad news is that the radio ham is Hancock.

THE LIFT Originally transmitted 16 June 1961 "Eight persons is eight persons - you'll have to get out" insists the attendant as Hancock barges into the crowded lift. But Hancock's not budging.

THE BLOOD DONOR Originally transmitted 23 June 1961 Perhaps the best-loved of all Hancock episodes. "A pint, why that's very nearly an armful!" protests our public spirited hero when he decides "to give so that others may live".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tony Hancock - Never Better, 16 Jan 2002
By J. Hunt "Nutty Professor" (U.K.) - See all my reviews
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The five episodes on this tape aren't technically "Hancock's Half-Hours" at all, but five of the six 25-minute episodes from his final BBC-TV series "Hancock", broadcast in 1961. Undoubtedly the finest series of shows Hancock ever made, and featuring him solo, without Sid James, these are the strongest five from it.

My personal favourite is "The Bowmans", in which Tony transpires to be a bit-player in a popular radio serial not unlike "The Archers": as usual he can't stop himself from stealing the show. The classic "Blood Donor" is also included, of course. "I don't mind giving a reasonable amount, but a pint...? That's very nearly an armful!"

The very last BBC-TV episode of Hancock isn't included here, but don't be disappointed. It is available on the BBC audio double-cassette tribute to Hancock, where it sounds like a bit of a damp squib of an ending after these classic programmes.

Tony Hancock was a tortured genius, who was never able to recapture the form of these shows after he split from writers Galton & Simpson, who went on further success with "Steptoe and Son". Worth watching, or listening to, are any other of his BBC episodes and his two films, "The Rebel" and "The Punch and Judy Man".

After these he went on to do two disappointing series for ITV, in 1963 and 1967 (the second with June Whitfield, although his drinking was by then out of control). Sadly, he was in the process of filming a series in Australia which could well have forged a comeback for him when he committed suicide. A 90-minute special of the material he filmed, aired in Australia in 1972, has never been shown or released in the UK.

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