Hancock's Half Hour

Name: Hancock's Half Hour
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1956
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Tony Hancock, Sidney James, Johnny Vyvyan, Hugh Lloyd, Alec Bregonzi

TV 1956-07-06 30m Comedy

★ 7.4 / 10 · 9 votes

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final 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.

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Status

Ended

Runtime

30m

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Episodes

Studio

BBC

Network

BBC One

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