Hancock's Half Hour (1956)
Hancock's Half Hour (1956)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Tony Hancock
Anthony Aloysius Hancock / Prince Nicolai
Kenneth Williams
Sid James
Sidney Balmoral James / General Sidski
John Le Mesurier
Ship's Captain
Johnny Vyvyan
1st Viking / 2nd Soldier / 3rd Son
Alec Bregonzi
1st Footballer / 1st Soldier / 2nd Clerk
John Vere
Vicar / Air Passenger / Airline official
Hugh Lloyd
Librarian / 1st Man / 1st Son
Mario Fabrizi
12th juror / 2nd Son / 2nd Viking
Mario Fabrizi
12th juror / 2nd Son / 2nd Viking
Tony Hancock
Hattie Jacques
Amorous Lady
Robert Dorning
Policeman / Albert (bus driver) / American tourist
Manville Tarrant
1st Stagehand / 3rd Man / 4th Son
Duncan Wood
Director
Dennis Chinnery
First Officer
Paddi Edwards
Girl
Gwenda Ewen
Girl
Brian Oulton
Ship's Doctor
Patricia Shakesby
Girl
Marla Landi
Betty Davies
Edward Malin
Pat Coombs
Michael Balfour
Richard Wattis
Margaret Flint
John Bramley
Campbell Singer
Dick Emery
Basil Beale
Peter Allenby
Harry Drew
Raymond Rollett
Pat O'Meara
William Sherwood
Harold Goodwin
Chris Dreaper
Valentine Dyall
Philip Casson
Roslyn Ellis
Eric Sykes
Ian MacNaughton
Roy Patrick
Graham Stark
Spike Milligan
Constance Wake
Doreen Casey
Nelson Grostate
Burt Kwouk
John Foster
George Crowther
Albert Grant
Eugenie Sivyer
Ray Grover
Anthony Wiles
Bob Marshall
Harold Kasket
Bernice Swanson
Rosamund Lesley
Harry Brunning
Henry B. Longhurst
John Tucker
Alex Wright
Christopher Dyer
Gilbert McIntyre
Keith Ashley
Leonard Sachs
Robert Bryan
Susan Hunter
Noel Howlett
Jack Watling
Diana King
Geoffrey Matthews
John Bluthal
Bernard Hunter
Edwin Richfield
Bernard Peake
Bruno Barnabe
John Snagge
Kenneth Firth
Murray Kash
Stan Simmons
Barbara Evans
Vi Stevens
Eileen Way
Gibb McLaughlin
George Coulouris
Dorothy Watson
Frederick Schiller
Max Geldray
John Gregson
Vera Elmore
Esther MacPherson
Mary Reynolds
Nora Nicholson
Eileen Delamere
Iris Eve
Pat Warren
Arthur Bennett
David Graham
Peter Elliott
Edouard Assaly
Anton Diffring
Nicky Grant
Norman Grant
Angela Crow
Frances St. Barbe-West
Judy Rogers
Raymond Graham
Stan Simmonds
William Mervyn
Penelope Parry
Michael Ward
Jack Leonard
Anthony Jennett
Victor Charrington
Bill Matthews
Norman Taylor
John Caesar
Edwin Morton
Sonia Peters
Margery Mason
Michael Greenwood
Vivienne Martin
Beatrice Ormonde
Joanna Douglas
Cardew Robinson
Graham Leaman
Una Trimming
Laura Thurlow
Kenneth Cowan
Astor Sklair
David Grain
Marie Lightfoot
James Clifton
Lala Lloyd
Betty Cardno
Philip Ray
Kenneth Kove
Austin Trevor
Leslie Perrins
William Kendall
Mark Singleton
Edith Stevenson
Charles Lloyd Pack
Nina Hunt
Harry Smith Hampshire
Kay Rose
Michael Boudot
Jessica Dent
Lorrae Desmond
Hermione Baddeley
Peter Emms
Reginald Beckwith
Frank Lonergan
Elizabeth Gott
Eleanor Fazan
Frank Pemberton
Charles Julian
Ricky Felgate
Brian Tyler
Michael Wyatt
Guy Middleton
Dave Freeman
Melville E. Noelly
Jeanette Edwards
Bruce Wightman
Cameron Hall
Leslie Smith
Anthony Shirvell
Richard Statman
Ann Marryott
Peter Glaze
Meadows White
Constance Chapman
Michael Aspel
Patrick Cargill
Ralph Wilson
Andrew Lieven
John Welsh
John Bosch
Michael Phillips
Peggy Ann Clifford
Nancy Roberts
Laurie Webb
Herbert Nelson
Frank Littlewood
June Whitfield
Pamela Manson
Con Courtney
Philip Carr
Arthur Mullard
Stuart Hillier
Terence Alexander
Totti Truman Taylor
Betty Miller
Joe Robinson
Phillipa Steward
Ann Smith
John Blythe
Michael Stainton
Rufus Cruickshank
Harry Locke
Dick Sullivan
Alf Silvestri
George Elliott
Leslie Cooper
Honor Shepherd
Thomas Symonds
Kim Corcoran
Peter Haigh
Michael Earl
Fraser White
Gordon Phillott
Patrick Milner
Ivor Raymonde
James Bulloch
Claude Bonser
Elisabeth Fraser
Ray Galton
Creator / Writer
Alan Simpson
Creator / Writer
Brian Worth
David Lander
Eve Patrick
Leonard Martin
Terry Gilbert
David Hyme
Peter Brownlee
Denny Dayviss
Doug Robinson
Sylvia Osborne
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Hancock's Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy series, broadcast from 1954 to 1961 and written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sidney James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television 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.
The radio version was produced by Dennis Main Wilson for most of its run. After Main Wilson departed for his television career, his role was taken by Tom Ronald. The television series was produced by Duncan Wood. The distinctive tuba-based theme tune was composed by Angela Morley.
Ten scripts (nine TV, one radio) were written but never recorded for a variety of reasons. The unused radio script for The Counterfeiter was finally recorded in 2019 with Kevin R. McNally as Tony Hancock.