Police officers, who happened to turn up to be amongst the studio audience felt that he had left the country. The cast play the parts in the story of 'Iggins, a cook who becomes a well respected chef but subsequently fails and loses everything due to drink. Chaperoning him to shelter in an ice cream parlour, Hancock has something of a silent Chaplin-esque stand-off with the ice cream man as he is served a 'Piltdown Glory'. As with other stars that possessed truly timeless talent, such as Judy Garland, or more recently Amy Winehouse, audiences were witnessing a beloved icon fall apart before their very eyes. Being ashamed to admit his true profession, he has explained his regular appearances in court by telling the old man h.

However, when a witness picks Hancock out for the burglary of a high street tobacconist, he has only days to. One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass.

In The Poetry Society, an evening with a group of Hancock's new avant-garde friends produces gems of abstract poetry, not only from the group but also from Sid and Bill. With an almost Shakespearean level of timelessness to his comedy and tragedy to his personal life, Tony Hancock should be recognised and revered as one of the primary founders of modern British comedy. Hancock'a Half Hour was a seminal radio show, that was key to the popularity of radio comedy especially for the BBC. IMPORTANT : Please note that we use third party images in most of our listings, so the image you see may not be of the actual item you are purchasing.

Eventually satisfied with their hypothesis, Hancock comes to a sudden realisation when he turns out the light, in a perfect comedic crescendo. A phenomenally successful ten years later, Galton and Simpson were themselves very well known names. The way he could convey feelings of anger, happiness, disappointment, bewilderment, indignation, his timing and control are almost without equal. In his final years, Hancock had a chaotic love affair with Le Mesurier's third wife, Joan, which was dramatized in 2008 as part of BBC Four's Curse Of Comedy season.The first modern sitcom, Hancock's Half Hour made stars of Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Ray Galton and Alan Simpson as one of the most successful comedy-writing partnerships in history.