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Hancock's Half Hour (Radio) Third Series - Programme 16 |
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Andrée sees a scar on Hancock's chest, and he invents a story of how he got it in the war, as a Commando in Africa and Japan.
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| Tony Hancock | ||
| Bill Kerr | ||
| Sidney James | ||
| Kenneth Williams | ||
| Andrée Melly | ||
| Alan Simpson | ||
Programme Guide
This is also one where the basic idea comes to fruition in a later programme. In this case, "Hancock's War", he is dropped into Germany, and here is telling Andrée the tall story of his war exploits as a Commando in Africa and Japan.
A lengthy sub-section could be written about Hancock's supposed war experiences. For, apart from these two shows, there is "The Blood Donor" - "Tiger Harrison and myself..."; "The Lift" - where he says he has been in submarines and commandos- "tricky stuff - heavy water..." and "The Unexploded Bomb", wherein he states that he spent the entire war in Bermuda.
It is fortunate for us that these shows, like "How Hancock Won The War", were basically written twice, because in the fifth and sixth radio series (and on TV) Galton, Simpson and Hancock were able to draw on their previous experience of the subject matter to trim and polish the script to brilliance, mastery and perfection.
Which is why so many new people are able to latch on to and be entertained by the Hancock persona even today, and, no doubt, far into the future.
Transmitted: Wednesday February 1st,1956 at 2000, BBC Light Programme.
Repeated: Sunday February 5th, 1956 at 1700, BBC Light Programme
Recorded: the previous Sunday, January 29th, 1956
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Music by Wally Stott
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson.
BBC Radio.
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