Hancock's Half Hour
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The radio series starred Tony Hancock with Sid Ja
Titlescreen of the 1957 series 2 TV episode "The Alpine Holiday", featuring a diagramatic illustration of the show's title; the "Hancock" musical motif (composed by Wally Stott), a cartoon of the tuba player, Tony Hancock reading the script and a broadcast clock showing the start and length of the episode.
Tony Hancock (right) and Sid James
Tony Hancock
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Anthony John Hancock was an English comedian and actor.
Hancock's Half Hour
…BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The radio series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James, Bill Kerr and, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, and Kenneth Williams. The television series also featured…
Hancock c. 1963
Memorial plaque to Hancock and his mother in the churchyard of St Dunstan's Church, Cranford, where their ashes are buried
Sculpture in Old Square, Birmingham
Commemorative plaque at the foot of the sculpture