Programmes:	Hancock's Half Hour, Hancock, Hancock's
Filmed:	1956 - 1960, 1961 - 1963, 1967  (BBC / ITV)
Episodes:	57 (6 series) then 19 (2 series) then 6 (1 series)
Starring:	Tony Hancock, Sid James
Written by:	Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Godfrey Harrison, Richard Harris, Dennis Spooner, Terry Nation, Ray Whyberd, John Muir, Eric Green.
Synopsis:	"Hancock's Half Hour" ran on the BBC for 7 series. Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock (played by Tony Hancock) was a loser whose plans and aspirations were being continually ruined by bad luck, Sidney Balmoral James or, more often than not, by his own pomposity and ambition. Tony Hancock then left the BBC to produce a 13 part series of "Hancock" for ITV and this was followed a few years later by Hancock's, in which he played the manager of a London night club.
BSG Review:	"Hancock's Half-Hour" is without a doubt one of the most important British sitcoms of all time and is the yardstick against which all subsequent comedies are measured. Hancock's comic genius coupled with Galton and Simpson's fabulously rich scripts allowed for classic episodes to be created week in, week out. Unfortunately though after series 7 (which many regard as the best of Hancock) the services of writers Galton and Simpson were arrogantly disposed of by Hancock thus starting his well-documented decline (which sadly ended in suicide).

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