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- The radio series broke with the variety tradition which was then dominant in British radio comedy, highlighting a new genre: the sitcom or situation comedy. Instead of the traditional variety mix of sketches, guest stars and musical interludes, the show's humour derived from characters and situations developed in a half-hour storyline.
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Feb 13, 2022 · Hancock's Half Hour changed comedy forever. Building on what The Goon Show had achieved in revolutionising radio, Hancock's Half Hour was arguably the first series to give a radio comedy series true structure and to let the narrative and characters guide the story.
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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 .
May 9, 2024 · Few classic comedy fans would dispute the enormous impact of Tony Hancock's Hancock's Half Hour, which reinvented the British sitcom and continues to entertain audiences decades later. Originally a radio series, its popularity led to the format being transferred to the relatively new medium of television.
Jan 16, 2008 · First airing on BBC radio in 1954, the show came along during an era when comedy was steeped in the fast-talking knockabout antics of the music hall. With its character and situation-based humour...
On the 2 November 1954, a 30-year-old comedian named Tony Hancock embarked on his first starring vehicle for BBC radio, Hancock’s Half Hour, scripted by two writers aged only in their twenties,...
A guide to The Complete And Utter History Of Hancock's Half Hour, the 2004 BBC Radio 2 radio documentary. Paul Merton interviews the show's creators, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. With classic clips and gems from the archive.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’ redefined comedy and continues to entertain audiences to this very day. Hambledon Productions are delighted to be recreating three, ‘lost’ episodes from the original television series.
