Ten years ago today (4th April 2016), I was at BBC Scotland in Glasgow watching the recording of Hancock's Half Hour - The New Neighbour starring Kevin McNally, Katy Wix, Jon Culshaw, Robin Sebastian and Kevin Eldon.
#BBCScotland #TonyHancock #HancocksHalfHour
As itโs #WorldBookDay, why not treat yourself ? (Just make sure the last page isnโt missing. #TonyHancock #TheMissingPage
"One and ninepence ha'penny?
I should have more than that on a Wednesday.
Cigarettes, half a pint of bitter last night; dinner, sweet and a cup of tea today, 1/11d.
This cost of living is getting ridiculous. Break into half a crown and there's nothing left!"
#TonyHancock #HancocksHalfHour
Remembering the brilliant actress Hattie Jacques who was born Josephine Jacques on this day in Sandgate in 1922. She worked closely with Tommy Handley, Tony Hancock & Eric Sykes. She starred in 14 Carry On films & was married to actor John Le Mesurier. #HattieJacques #CarryOn #TonyHancock #EricSykes
Morning chuckles with #PeterSellers #SidJames #TonyHancock in:
๐ ORDERS ARE ORDERS (1954) 11:20am comedy #TPTVsubtitles
Before Morecambe and Wise, there was Hancock's Half Hour!
From The Jewel Robbery (broadcast on 26th October 1955)
#TonyHancock #SidJames #RayGalton #AlanSimpson #TheJewelRobbery
I simply think of #TonyHancock singing it to โDeutschland, Deutschland uber allesโ
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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Decided to prepare for Christmas by buying a complete #TonyHancock dvd collection. In the best
@tonyhancock.bsky.social tradition there is no indication on the cases or discs as to which episodes are on which disc. "The Fools," as Hancock would have said.
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
Hancock's Half Hour was first broadcast on Radio on this day in 1954! #bbccomedy #TonyHancock #britishcomedy
We're revisiting #TonyHancock of Wednesday with our brand new episode. @guy-e-walker.bsky.social and @robertcheath.bsky.social will be joined by Tim, Martin and John from @tonyhancock.bsky.social appreciation society and Very Nearly an Armful Podcast to discuss 1963's Punch and Judy Man.
Early morning comedy with #SidJames #PeterSellers #TonyHancock in...
๐ ORDERS ARE ORDERS (1954) 9:10am #TPTVsubtitles
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
#TonyHancock: Shall we have a window down?
Passenger: Windows in planes do not open. This is a pressurised cabin. If a window's opened, the plane would explode!
Hancock: Well, that's bad workmanship old man. Never had this trouble with the old Tiger Moth!
#HancocksHalfHour
You'll never look at June Whitfield the same way again plus Dick Emery and Clive Dunn's early careers somehow survived it. Worst thing is it's just so plain ignorant and is based on a sense of British superiority that we can see today has trickled down the generations. All very sad... #TonyHancock
Adam: โHi Pat! What would you like me to do with the last 10 minutes of the omnibus?โ
Pat: โFall down that disused mineshaft?โ #TheArchers #TheBowmans #TonyHancock
This Friday in 1965.
The Reunion.
Looking at the photo you may, like me, detect that the boys donโt look entirely happy..
Done some digging and thereโs a reason ๐
#TonyHancock
#GaltonandSimpson
Laughs at the army camp when a film crew move in to shoot a movie at 10:10am with ORDERS ARE ORDERS (1954) on #TPTV
โญ Stars #SidJames #PeterSellers #TonyHancock comedy #TPTVsubtitles
TV Times Thursday: From the week of January 27th 1963. Here is an article with Sheila Hancock noting thaty confusion with her surname and that of a very popular comedian of that time! #SheilaHancock #TonyHancock #Hancock #TVTimes #ITV
Susan: โWe canโt afford to get complacent. We need to keep thinking: what do our listeners want? And then we give it to them.โ
Joy: โThe entire cast falling down a disused mineshaft?โ #TheArchers #TheBowmans #TonyHancock
#TonyHancock: I want 10 crates of Winter Brew, 5 crates of best brown, 12 quarts of Dragon's Breath, 2 barrels of bitter, 2 crates of Danish lager and a barrel of rough cider.
Harry: Cor blimey, are you gonna have a party?
Tony: No, me grandmother's coming round!
#SidJames #HancocksHalHour
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
Sunday morning reading. No froth ๐
#TonyHancock #HancocksHalfHour
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
Remembering Anthony John Hancock
(12/05/1924 โ 25/06/1968) - quite possibly Britain's greatest post-war comedian
#TonyHancock #HancocksHalfHour
