Hancock

[DB7]

Oh joy of joys - Hancock and Hancock's Half Hour airing on UK Gold from next week.

:scarf:

[smudge]

Thanks for the warning/reminder :)

SMUDGE

[ollie]

Recorders at the ready !!!!!

cheers Ollie.

[David Brent]

HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR particularly with Sid has always been an out & out comedy classic series.
We saw 32 episodes of HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR/HANCOCK here on pay's UKTV last year. One or two duff episodes ie 'The Alpine Holiday' & 'Air Steward Hancock' but most are worth saving.
I believe there were over 60 episode's made for BBC TV so obviously some of them have been lost.
I would be interested to know how many episode's you get to see on UK GOLD.
Smudge - do i detect that you're not a fan?
Sacrilege !

Dave.

[smudge]

Nah Dave,

My post misled you...

I used the word WARNING for empty-headed buffoons like me, who can't even remember their own name somedays.

Actually I am a card-carrying member of THAS, and am grateful that we have a Hancock Day once a year here, just down the way in Brum :grin:

TTFN

SM...

SMI...

SMOO...

Oh, You-know-who !!

[The_Late_Peter_Cook]

Originally posted by David Brent@Feb 27 2005, 03:20 AM One or two duff episodes ie 'The Alpine Holiday' & 'Air Steward Hancock' but most are worth saving.

Duff? DUFF? DUFF?

Sorry, I slipped into Colin Baker 'Doctor Who-mode' there.

'Air Steward H ancock' isn't a particularly good one, but 'The Alphine Holiday' is fab if only for the only remaining visual 'Snide' footage. :)

I have them all taped from the BBC repeat run, so I won't bother with UKGold. Hopefully there's more restored DVD's on their way. :)

[42ndStreetFreak]

GREAT news! Huge 'Hancock' fan (caught the bug off my Dad) and i thought the TV version was an improvement on some of the more far fetched aspects of the radio show.
But both are still great. Thanks for the heads-up.

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by 42ndStreetFreak@Feb 28 2005, 12:58 AM GREAT news! Huge 'Hancock' fan (caught the bug off my Dad) and i thought the TV version was an improvement on some of the more far fetched aspects of the radio show. But both are still great. Thanks for the heads-up.

I can't agree with that. The pictures were much better on the radio. The ones like when he was a test pilot (with Kenneth Williams knocking on the cockpit half way through the test flight). Or The Missing Page, Sunday Afternoon at Home, The Wild Man of the Woods. That's the sort of radio I grew up on. It really fired the imagination. Some of them were repeated in the TV series but I think the radio versions were better.

Steve

[42ndStreetFreak]

"Test pilot" is good, but some of them got overly silly, never much cared for Bill Kerr's character who was annoying more often than funny, and the crass fat jokes against Hattie were just bad full stop (made worse when you knew just how much they did upset her). And making Sid less of an out and out criminal was also a good move.

And they too often made Hancock a total idiot, like the idea of Sid selling him Lords cricket ground by fooling him into thinking its a farm!! A far too stupid an idea and one that made Hancock seem like a retarded child.

Sure there are some classic radio episodes (many of which did feature Williams) but there were also many weak ones. Never a fan of his girlfriends either.

[David Brent]

Originally posted by The_Late_Peter_Cook@Feb 27 2005, 08:24 AM I have them all taped from the BBC repeat run, so I won't bother with UKGold. Hopefully there's more restored DVD's on their way. :)

Pete,
As a matter of interest how many episodes of HANCOCK did you tape?
As i mentioned previously we got to see 32 episodes in total over here.

Cheers

Dave.

[ollie]

There were 61 tv episodes between 1956-1961 according to a web site i found,i'm a born again hancock fan,and have got 29 eps, some commercially available,and some which are trades,thanx smudge,most which came from the beeb2 reruns i think,ive got a few more coming (3 i think,which makes 32) then thats it,i'd also like to know how many more are going to come to light,still exist? i dont hold out much hope of the uk gold run turning anything new up. :unhappy:

cheers Ollie.

[The_Late_Peter_Cook]

Originally posted by David Brent@Feb 28 2005, 05:52 AM Pete, As a matter of interest how many episodes of HANCOCK did you tape? As i mentioned previously we got to see 32 episodes in total over here. Cheers Dave.

I managed to tape most of the existing episodes that weren't on the BBC videos (I have all but one of the official ones). 32 sounds about right as there are a lot of episodes missing, for examplel ast years single disc DVD managed to gather up all existing episodes of Season's two and three plus a Christmas special, even with all those combinations, that was only around 7 or 8 episodes in total (the first series doesn't exist).

Still with a bit of luck some episodes might turn up in the future (some of the missing radio shows have found recently, such as 'The Stolen Petrol').

I'm not sure about that 25 min running time. The last BBC series (simply called 'Hancock') ran for that, but I think before that it was the standard half-hour slot.

[ollie]

http://www.mgnet.karoo.net/hancock%2...de%20guide.htm

Here's a link i've found,an episode guide,i counted them, but my maths is shockin,i got it to 62,and there's an episode that i've got that isn't on this list which is the sucession of son and heir,which makes err....... 63,so rennie is spot on,this includes hancocks forty three minutes,which is the only one i've seen that i'd describe as bad,there again "there's an airfield" is a bit shakey.

cheers Ollie

[Hackett]

Tony Hancock's first TV series was after 48 of the 104 editions of "HANCOCKS HALF HOUR" on BBC radio was a sketch show for ITV. "THE HANCOCK SHOW"
ran from 1956-57 Galton and Simpson wrote (uncredited) the last 2 of the 12x30min episodes, Eric Sykes and Larry Stephens wrote another 2 and Sykes penned the other 8 on his own. It went out as two 6 episode series the last set of six between the first two BBC TV series of "HANCOCKS HALF HOUR". Between 1956- 60 Hancock appeared in 58 episodes, 56x30min, 1x45mins and 1xshort special. He also appeared in BBC's "CHRISTMAS NIGHT WITH THE STARS" 1958 doing his well known Galton & Simpson Budgerigar sketch. 1961 saw him in "HANCOCK" again for the BBC with Galton & Simpson writting all 6 episodes. In 1963 he moves over to ATV as star and producer. 13x30min sitcom episodes are made as "HANCOCK" but without Galton and Simpson. A one-off 50min special "HANCOCK AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL" was made in colour by the BBC in 1966. Some material was from Galton and Simpson the rest by John Muir, Eric Green and Hancock himself. Muir and Green wrote his next series "HANCOCK'S" for ITV(ABC) a sitcom of 6x30min episodes in 1967. Dispite his alcohol and mental problems Australian TV Network 7 signed him up in 1968 for a 13 part sitcom "THE TONY HANCOCK SHOW". On the 25th June 1967 Hancock took his own life. The only 3 episodes made were shown as a 90min presentation on Australian TV in 1972.

[Hugo]

The 3 Australian episodes were released on video in the UK about ten years ago, by Wonderland, under the title HANCOCK'S LAST HOUR (AND A QUARTER).

While far from being vintage Hancock they have their moments and are worth seeing and of course they have the special poignancy of being the final appearance of 'the lad himself'.