TONY'S RADIO SHOWS

"Star Bill" - Second Series

"Star Bill" : Second Series. February - May 1954
Show No.	Broadcast Date	Star Guest
1	28-2-54	James Robertson Justice
2	7-3-54	Ted Ray
3	14-3-54	Jack Buchanan
4	21-3-54	Josef Locke
5	28-3-54	Jimmy James and Raymond Glendenning (pre-recorded)
6	4-4-54	# Hancock absent, replaced by Terry-Thomas #
7	11-4-54	Bonar Colleano
8	18-4-54	Richard Greene
9	25-4-54	Vic Oliver
10	2-5-54	Jimmy Edwards

Transmission : Sundays, 2100-2200, BBC Light Programme. No repeats. Programme 10 was the last in the series. It was replaced by "The Forces Show", in which Hancock did not appear. It ran from 9-5-54 until replaced in October 1954 by "Grand Hotel".

Regular team : Tony Hancock, Moira Lister and Graham Stark; Joan Turner, Eddie Calvert, The Mitchell Millionaires led by Tony Mercer, and Stanley Black and his Concert Orchestra (except nos. 8 & 9 : Geraldo and his Orchestra). From show no. 5, Radio Times also billed "Higgins" - an off-stage character referred to by Hancock, but who never actually spoke.

Scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, with additional lyrics by Jimmy Grafton.

Produced by Dennis Main Wilson