Before Morecambe and Wise, there was Hancock's Half Hour!
From The Jewel Robbery (broadcast on 26th October 1955)
#TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #TheJewelRobbery
Tony: What an exhibition, sheer unadulterated piggery! What a way to abuse a cakehole! How you can sit there and stuff like that on Boxing Day after what you shovelled yesterday and the day before is beyond my comprehension!
#TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #HancocksHalfHour
Tony: How much does the jackpot stand at this year?
Sid: 4 nicker exactly, there's a bit of luck eh?
Tony: A bit of luck! He cooks it, stays up half the night segregating it, and he says "A bit of luck!"
#TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #HancocksHalfHour #EricsonTheViking
"More carol singers, where's me shotgun? I'll spray 'em with buckshot!"
#TonyHancock #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #HancocksHalfHour #HancocksHappyChristmas #Christmas2025 ๐๐
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Radio voice: Flying doctor calling Wollumboola base. I'm on my way Mrs Fraser, just wrap him up and don't move him.
Tony: That's good isn't It, short wave 11.5 metres. I must call him up one night and have a chat about my backache!
#TonyHancock #Hancock #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #TheRadioHam
Tony: Hello, hello, there goes Mrs Biggs. There she goes, look, up to the old Hand and Racquet.
She'll be there til chucking out time. "I'll have a small treble gin please, dear".
I got caught one year, I'll never ask 'er again!
#HancocksHalfHour #TonyHancock #TheElopement #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
3pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1963 #Comedy #Crime film๐ฅ โThe Wrong Arm of the Lawโ directed by #CliffOwen & written by #JohnAntrobus #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #JohnWarren + #LenHeath
๐ #PeterSellers #LionelJeffries #BernardCribbins #NanetteNewman #BillKerr #JohnLeMesurier
6:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 1958, s5 Ep 2 of 20 of #Comedy ๐ป #HancocksHalfHour - โThe Scandal Magazineโ written by #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #TonyHancock #SidneyJames #BillKerr #KennethWilliams #HattieJacques
6:30pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra
From 1958, s5 Ep 1 of 20 of #Comedy ๐ป #HancocksHalfHour - โThe New Radio Seriesโ written by #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #TonyHancock #SidneyJames #BillKerr #KennethWilliams #HattieJacques
6pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1963 #Comedy #Crime film๐ฅ โThe Wrong Arm of the Lawโ directed by #CliffOwen & written by #JohnAntrobus #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #JohnWarren + #LenHeath
๐ #PeterSellers #LionelJeffries #BernardCribbins #NanetteNewman #BillKerr #JohnLeMesurier
Police radio: Car 35, Car 35, report received drinks being served in Three Kings, Agamemnon Road at 11.15. Investigate please.
Tony: Three Kings, Agamemnon Road, that's not bad, 11.15. I'll have to remember that!
#TonyHancock #Hancock #TheRadioHam #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
9:55pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1964 #Comedy film๐ฅ โThe Bargeeโ directed by #DuncanWood from a screenplay by #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #HarryHCorbett #HughGriffith #EricSykes #RonnieBarker #JuliaFoster #MiriamKarlin #EricBarker #DerekNimmo #RichardBriers #BrianWilde
"It seems ages since I had a natter with old Yoki Suji in Tokyo.
I wonder how his wife is, what was her name? Radiant Flower of the Devine Heavens.
I wonder if her feet are still playing her up?"
#Hancock #TonyHancock #TheRadioHam #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
Sid: You know that horse I told you to put 30 quid on? That cast iron, dead cert, can't lose, sure fire, odds on favourite, the one you said wouldn't win?
Tony: Well?
Sid: It didn't, you owe me 30 nicker!
#HancocksHalfHour #TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
"I suggest to you there is some element of doubt in this boy's guilt.
As Shakespeare said in The Merchant of Vienna, when Portion accused Shylock Holmes of pinching a pound of meat, "The quality of mercy is not strained..."
#TonyHancock #SidJames #HancocksHalfHour #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
2:05pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1964 #Comedy film๐ฅ โThe Bargeeโ directed by #DuncanWood from a screenplay by #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #HarryHCorbett #HughGriffith #EricSykes #RonnieBarker #JuliaFoster #MiriamKarlin #EricBarker #DerekNimmo #RichardBriers #BrianWilde
11:30am TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1963 #Comedy #Crime film๐ฅ โThe Wrong Arm of the Lawโ directed by #CliffOwen & written by #JohnAntrobus #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #JohnWarren + #LenHeath
๐ #PeterSellers #LionelJeffries #BernardCribbins #NanetteNewman #BillKerr #JohnLeMesurier
"I'm very fond of our park. Sunday morning isn't the same without a couple of goes on the roundabout and a slide down the chute when the keepers are not looking!"
#HancocksHalfHour #TonyHancock #SidJames #BillKerr #HattieJacques #KennethWilliams #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #TheAmericansHitTown
9:05pm TODAY on @TalkingPicsTV
The 1971 #Comedy film๐ฅ โUp The Chastity Beltโ directed by #BobKellett from a screenplay by #SidColin #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #FrankieHowerd #GrahamCrowden #BillFraser #HughPaddick #AnnaQuayle #EarthaKitt #RoyHudd #LancePercival #FredEmney
#TonyHancock #SidneyVivian #HancocksHalfHour #TheReunionParty #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
#HappyHogmanay #Hogmanay2024
#NewYearsEve #NewYearsEve2024 #ReadyToParty #Scotland ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
Tony: What an exhibition, sheer unadulterated piggery! What a way to abuse a cakehole! How you can sit there and stuff like that on Boxing Day after what you shovelled yesterday and the day before is beyond my comprehension!
#TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #HancocksHalfHour
Tony: How much does the jackpot stand at this year?
Sid: 4 nicker exactly, there's a bit of luck eh?
Tony: A bit of luck! He cooks it, stays up half the night segregating it, and he says "A bit of luck!"
#TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #HancocksHalfHour
#EricsonTheViking
Tony: "A silver threepenny bit! You've seen the inside of many a pudding haven't you? I remember digging you out - Christmas 1938 round at my Auntie Beatie's!"
#TonyHancock #HancocksHalfHour #TheTwoMurderers #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #Christmas2024๐๐
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7:55pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR
The 1974 #ChristmasSpecial of #Sitcom๐บ โSteptoe and Sonโ - "A Perfect Christmas" directed by #DouglasArgent and written by #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #WilfridBrambell #HarryHCorbett #LeonEagles
Tony: Well there we are then Harry, how much on these empties then?
Harry: That's not mine for a start. Neither is that one.
Tony: How do you know, how do you know? I took the lab....I mean there's no labels on them!
#HancocksHalfHour #TonyHancock #SidneyVivian #RayGalton #AlanSimpson
12:15pm TODAY on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
The 1964 #Comedy film๐ฅ โThe Bargeeโ directed by #DuncanWood from a screenplay by #RayGalton & #AlanSimpson
๐ #HarryHCorbett #HughGriffith #EricSykes #RonnieBarker #JuliaFoster #MiriamKarlin #EricBarker #DerekNimmo #RichardBriers #BrianWilde