Name: Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3 By Ray Galton
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Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3 Summary

Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3: Ten episodes of the classic BBC Radio comedy series by Ray Galton

Tony Hancock stars with Sid James and Kenneth Williams in the legendary BBC Radio comedy series.

Created by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson in 1954, Hancocks Half Hour was the radio vehicle that made Tony Hancock a household name. Each week listeners would be admitted to the sometimes fantastical, sometimes mundane life of the lad imself. Aided and abetted by Sid James, Andree Melly, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams, Hancock would enter into the spirit of each episode with characteristic dolefulness.

This collection of 10 episodes represents the surviving archive from the third radio series, along with PDF booklets featuring episode guides, series notes, cast biographies and specially written introductions by Galton and Simpson. Also included are two radio documentaries about Tony Hancock: Stone Me, What a Life! and The Complete and Utter History of Hancock.

The episodes included are The Pet Dog; The Jewel Robbery; The Bequest; The Blackboard Jungle; The Diet; Hancocks Heir; The Student Prince; The Greyhound Track; The Conjurer and The Test Match.

About Ray Galton

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson met in a sanatorium in Surrey, where they were both being treated for TB. Ray Galton remembers noticing the six-foot-four Simpson and thinking he looked surprisingly large - you expect everyone in a sanatorium to be thin and weedy, and he was the biggest guy Id ever seen. During two years in the same ward, they listened to comedy shows together and also wrote a series of their own, creating a radio room in a linen cupboard.
Having left the sanatorium within a few months of each other, they decided to get a professional opinion of their work and sent a sketch they had written called The Pirate Sketch to the BBC. They were asked to go in for an interview, and soon found themselves writing for the sketch show Happy Go Lucky. Over the next two years they continued to write sketches for a number of big names, before coming up with the idea for Hancocks Half Hour. Although the BBC took some persuading, eventually the show was scheduled, initially for radio but later as a television series. A phenomenally successful ten years later, Galton and Simpson were themselves very well known names.
After Hancocks Half Hour they wrote Comedy Playhouse for the BBC, out of which came their second huge television and radio hit, Steptoe & Son. In 1977 they wrote The Galton & Simpson Playhouse, produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV.

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Sku

GOR008820803

ISBN 13

9781785290503

ISBN 10

1785290509

Title

Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3: Ten episodes of the classic BBC Radio comedy series by Ray Galton

Author

Ray Galton

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House

Year published

2015-04-16

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Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3 Ray Galton

Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3 by Ray Galton

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Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3 Summary

Hancocks Half Hour: Series 3: Ten episodes of the classic BBC Radio comedy series by Ray Galton

About Ray Galton

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