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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.
Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.
The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Radio Series
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[edit]| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 12 | November 2, 1954 | February 16, 1955 | |
| 2 | 12 | April 19, 1955 | July 5, 1955 | |
| 3 | 20 | October 16, 1955 | February 29, 1956 | |
| 4 | 20 | October 14, 1956 | February 24, 1957 | |
| 5 | 20 | January 22, 1958 | June 1, 1958 | |
| Specials and Remakes | 5 | December 25, 1958 | January 25, 1959 | |
| 6 | 14 | September 29, 1959 | December 29, 1959 | |
References
[edit]"Tony Hancock 'Artiste'", Roger Wilmut ISBN 0 413 50820 X, 1978
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