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Painting Hancock: Restoration comedy In his 1960 film 'The Rebel', Tony Hancock played a talentless, pretentious artist. So why would anyone painstakingly recreate his fictional works of art ...
Whilst the 1963 Hancock series is not well-known today, one episode in particular has stand-out quality to it that offers a tantalising glimpse of Tony Hancock's genius.
Tony Hancock: The Lad Himself returns to the small screen - for the first time in colour The Blood Donor and Twelve Angry Men are among the crown jewels of British comedy. Now thanks to a ...
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 ...
John Hewer brings Hancock's Half Hour (The Lost TV Episodes) to The Hawth in Crawley on October 11.
Radio 4 Extra celebrates the 60th anniversary of recording on vinyl record, of one of the most celebrated comedy half hours of all time – Tony Hancock in The Blood Donor. Between 1956 and 1959 ...
A collection of items from 1950s comedian Tony Hancock's life and work is being handed over to a public archive.
Trail-blazing radio comedy Hancock’s Half Hour has inspired the latest theatre show by a playwright who has channelled several famous performers in previous productions.
A dinner has been hosted to celebrate 100 years since the birth of influential 1950s comedian Tony Hancock. He was best known for his BBC radio and TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The Tony Hancock ...
A collection of items from 1950s comedian Tony Hancock's life and work is being handed over to a public archive. Hancock was best known for his BBC radio and TV series Hancock's Half Hour. The ...