Ken ignored Tony's calls and the reunion never happened.’’ Of the continuing interest in reviving scrips from Hancock's Half Hour, Brittain-Dissont said: ‘Given the hard test of the passage of time, ...

Tony Hancock, with his deadpan, hang-dog expression, is rarely a comedian associated with the word 'surreal'. Yet surreal he was, and his earliest television series - sketch show The Tony Hancock Show ...

Enter the surreal with The Tony Hancock Show. Tony Hancock, with his deadpan, hang-dog expression, is rarely a comedian associated with the word 'surreal'.Yet surreal he was, and his earliest ...

Only a few years before, Tony Hancock had been Britain's most popular comedy star. On radio and then on TV, his sitcom Hancock's Half Hour had become a national institution, and his character had ...

Shortly after Ray Galton and Alan Simpson had devised a script that saw Tony Hancock realise one of the most significant moments in British Comedy history (namely, The Blood Donor featuring the ...

Ken ignored Tony's calls and the reunion never happened.’’ Of the continuing interest in reviving scrips from Hancock's Half Hour, Brittain-Dissont said: ‘Given the hard test of the passage of time, ...

Tony Hancock joined the RAF in 1943, not long after his older brother, Colin, died in action in September 1942 aged only 24. His wartime experiences would form the basis of some of the comedy in ...

Tony Hancock joined the RAF in 1943, not long after his older brother, Colin, died in action in September 1942 aged only 24. His wartime experiences would form the basis of some of the comedy in ...

His wartime experiences would form the basis of some of the comedy in Hancock’s Half Hour, including an episode called The Diary, which aired on BBC radio on December 30, 1956. A parody of The Secret ...