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* Creator/TheBBC: In real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
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* BrickJoke: In 'The Blood Donor', Tony decides to give blood and discovers that he's got the rare blood type AB Negative. When he finds out that he has to give a whole pint ("That's very nearly an armful") he tries to back out, but in the end he gives in. At home afterwards, he feels hungry and decides to make a sandwich. He cuts himself on the breadknife and is taken back to the same hospital where, as luck would have it, they have a single pint of AB Negative blood. Which ''could'' be seen as AllForNothing, except that ([[LampshadeHanging as he points out]]) if he hadn't given blood in the first place he'd be in treal trouble.
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* BrickJoke: In 'The Blood Donor', Tony decides to give blood and discovers that he's got the rare blood type AB Negative. When he finds out that he has to give a whole pint ("That's very nearly an armful") he tries to back out, but in the end he gives in. At home afterwards, he feels hungry and decides to make a sandwich. He cuts himself on the breadknife and is taken back to the same hospital where, as luck would have it, they have a single pint of AB Negative blood. Which ''could'' be seen as AllForNothing, except that ([[LampshadeHanging as he points out]]) if he hadn't given blood in the first place he'd be in treal real trouble.
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''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio and later television comedy series of the 1950s. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who also created ''SteptoeAndSon''. The main character, a pompous self-important fool, was played by Tony Hancock. His boorish offsider, whose chief task it is to bring Tony back to reality, was played by Sid James. Bill Kerr also featured as Hancock's dim Australian boarder. (Hancock, James and Kerr's characters all used variations on their real names). Moira Lister and then Andrée Melly played Tony's girlfriends. Later, Hattie Jacques played Hancock's secretary, the rather prim Miss Pugh. Kenneth Williams featured as a number of characters, most notably one nicknamed 'Snide'. In the TV version the regular cast was pared down to Hancock and James, although Williams and Jacques made a couple of guest appearances in early episodes.
Both versions were smash hits. Previously, comedy had centred around music hall-style slapstick, rather than situation comedy, and Hancock's Half Hour could be said to be the first British situation comedy. The BBC received a string of complaint letters from pub owners because so many of their patrons went home to watch or listen to the show. In any voting contest of great British comedies, Hancock always comes in with a high ranking, even though many of its fans were not even born when it was made.
Not to be confused with ''{{Hancock}}''.
Both versions were smash hits. Previously, comedy had centred around music hall-style slapstick, rather than situation comedy, and Hancock's Half Hour could be said to be the first British situation comedy. The BBC received a string of complaint letters from pub owners because so many of their patrons went home to watch or listen to the show. In any voting contest of great British comedies, Hancock always comes in with a high ranking, even though many of its fans were not even born when it was made.
Not to be confused with ''{{Hancock}}''.
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''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio and later television comedy series of the 1950s. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who also created ''SteptoeAndSon''. The main character, a pompous self-important fool, was played by Tony Hancock. His boorish offsider, whose chief task it is to bring Tony back to reality, was played by Sid James. Bill Kerr also featured as Hancock's dim Australian boarder. (Hancock, James and Kerr's characters all used variations on their real names). names.) Moira Lister and then Andrée Melly played Tony's girlfriends. Later, Hattie Jacques played Hancock's secretary, the rather prim Miss Pugh. Kenneth Williams featured as a number of characters, most notably one nicknamed 'Snide'. In the TV version the regular cast was pared down to Hancock and James, although Williams and Jacques made a couple of guest appearances in early episodes.
Both versions were smash hits. Previously, comedy had centred around music hall-style slapstick, rather than situation comedy, andHancock's ''Hancock's Half Hour Hour'' could be said to be the first British situation comedy. The BBC received a string of complaint letters from pub owners because so many of their patrons went home to watch or listen to the show. In any voting contest of great British comedies, Hancock ''Hancock'' always comes in with a high ranking, even though many of its fans were not even born when it was made.
Not to be confused with''{{Hancock}}''.
''Film/{{Hancock}}'' (although the title was abbreviated to this for the final TV series).
Both versions were smash hits. Previously, comedy had centred around music hall-style slapstick, rather than situation comedy, and
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* LethalChef: Miss Pugh, at least according to Tony:
--> '''Tony:''' I thought my mother was a bad cook, but at least 'er gravy moved about a bit!
--> '''Tony:''' I thought my mother was a bad cook, but at least 'er gravy moved about a bit!
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* BackupTwin: Parodied in 'The Bowman'.
* BagsOfLetters: in the episode 'The Bowman' Hancock finds himself bombarded by mail the day after his radio SoapOpera character is killed off.
* BagsOfLetters: in the episode 'The Bowman' Hancock finds himself bombarded by mail the day after his radio SoapOpera character is killed off.
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* BackupTwin: Parodied in 'The Bowman'.
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* BagsOfLetters: in the episode 'TheBowman' Bowmans' Hancock finds himself bombarded by mail the day after his radio SoapOpera character is killed off.
* BagsOfLetters: in the episode 'The
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* BackupTwin: Parodied in 'The Bowmans'.
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* BackupTwin: Parodied in 'The Bowmans'.Bowman'.
* BagsOfLetters: in the episode 'The Bowman' Hancock finds himself bombarded by mail the day after his radio SoapOpera character is killed off.
* BagsOfLetters: in the episode 'The Bowman' Hancock finds himself bombarded by mail the day after his radio SoapOpera character is killed off.
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* {{Sampling}}: JetSetRadio, of all things. The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
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* {{Sampling}}: JetSetRadio, of all things. The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael Creator/GeorgeMichael song, too.
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* FunnyForeigner: Bill Kerr "lately of Wagga Wagga", and the (fake) French girl Andrée Melly.
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* IronButtmonkey: Bill.
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* TheDanza: Other than Williams' and Jacques' characters, the main characters all had the same name as the actors who played them. (Although the character Tony had the ridiculous middle names "Aloysius St John" to distinguish him from the real man.)
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Tony's middle names are Aloysius St John.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Played for laughs InUniverse in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
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* TheDanza: Other than Williams' and Jacques' characters, the main characters all had the same name as the actors who played them.
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* TheDanza: Other than Williams' and Jacques' characters, the main characters all had the same name as the actors who played them. (Although the character Tony had the ridiculous middle names "Aloysius St John" to distinguish him from the real man.)
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** In 'The Blood Donor'.
--> '''The Nurse''' Have you had any of these diseases?
--> '''Tony:''' (Reads the list and looks insulted.) No, I have not and especially not ''that'' one!
--> '''The Nurse''' Have you had any of these diseases?
--> '''Tony:''' (Reads the list and looks insulted.) No, I have not and especially not ''that'' one!
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** In another episode when Hancock is complaining to a policeman (Williams) about kids vandalising his car, the following exchance occurs:
-->'''Policeman''' Why don't you put it in a garage? ''(GA-rij)''
-->'''Hancock''' I have not got... a ''garage''. ''(guh-RAHJ)''
-->'''Policeman''' Why don't you put it in a garage? ''(GA-rij)''
-->'''Hancock''' I have not got... a ''garage''. ''(guh-RAHJ)''
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
--> '''Tony:''' This could be the only chance I'll ever have to dance with Jane Russell!
--> '''Bill:''' A little shrimp like you? She'd be head and shoulders above you.
--> '''Tony:''' [[BuxomIsBetter I know.]]
--> '''Tony:''' This could be the only chance I'll ever have to dance with Jane Russell!
--> '''Bill:''' A little shrimp like you? She'd be head and shoulders above you.
--> '''Tony:''' [[BuxomIsBetter I know.]]
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* LampshadeHanging:
--> '''Gangster:''' One false move and the girl's dead!
--> '''Moira:''' Might as well be, I've had nothing to say for the last few minutes.
--> '''Gangster:''' One false move and the girl's dead!
--> '''Moira:''' Might as well be, I've had nothing to say for the last few minutes.
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* BrickJoke: In 'The Blood Donor', Tony decides to give blood and discovers that he's got the rare blood type AB Negative. When he finds out that he has to give a whole pint ("That's very nearly an armful") he tries to back out, but in the end he gives in. At home afterwards, he feels hungry and decides to make a sandwich. He cuts himself on the breadknife and is taken back to the same hospital where, [[AllForNothing as luck would have it, they have a single pint of AB Negative blood]].
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* BrickJoke: In 'The Blood Donor', Tony decides to give blood and discovers that he's got the rare blood type AB Negative. When he finds out that he has to give a whole pint ("That's very nearly an armful") he tries to back out, but in the end he gives in. At home afterwards, he feels hungry and decides to make a sandwich. He cuts himself on the breadknife and is taken back to the same hospital where, [[AllForNothing as luck would have it, they have a single pint of AB Negative blood]]. blood. Which ''could'' be seen as AllForNothing, except that ([[LampshadeHanging as he points out]]) if he hadn't given blood in the first place he'd be in treal trouble.
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* OverlyLongGag: "Wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"
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* OverlyLongGag: Slow typing, followed by "Wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"
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* ABNegative - Tony is found to be AB in 'The Blood Donor' - the resulting episode is a classic.
* BackupTwin - Parodied in 'The Bowmans'.
* TheBBC - In real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
* BottleEpisode - 'The Bedsitter'
* BritCom - Arguably the first one.
* BritishAccents - You can't get much more Cockney than Sid James. Which is ironic given that Sid James was South African, if not too unexpected, given that South Africa is part of the Commonwealth and this was the 1950s. Lots of people still sounded British (or tried to). It'd be more jarring these days, but it's a few years later after all.
* BackupTwin - Parodied in 'The Bowmans'.
* TheBBC - In real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
* BottleEpisode - 'The Bedsitter'
* BritCom - Arguably the first one.
* BritishAccents - You can't get much more Cockney than Sid James. Which is ironic given that Sid James was South African, if not too unexpected, given that South Africa is part of the Commonwealth and this was the 1950s. Lots of people still sounded British (or tried to). It'd be more jarring these days, but it's a few years later after all.
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quite pleased about it, considering himself "one of nature's aristocrats".
*BackupTwin - BackupTwin: Parodied in 'The Bowmans'.
*TheBBC - TheBBC: In real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
*BottleEpisode - BottleEpisode: 'The Bedsitter'
*BritCom - BrickJoke: In 'The Blood Donor', Tony decides to give blood and discovers that he's got the rare blood type AB Negative. When he finds out that he has to give a whole pint ("That's very nearly an armful") he tries to back out, but in the end he gives in. At home afterwards, he feels hungry and decides to make a sandwich. He cuts himself on the breadknife and is taken back to the same hospital where, [[AllForNothing as luck would have it, they have a single pint of AB Negative blood]].
* BritCom: Arguably the first one.
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* TheCastShowoff - Tony Hancock was often given a chance to show off material from his stage acts, including his impressions of Charles Laughton and Robert Newton.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck - Lampshaded in one episode, where Sid realises it's easier to go to the bank for an overdraft rather than come up with one of his usual over-complicated schemes.
* TheDanza - Other than Williams' and Jacques' characters, the main characters all had the same name as the actors who played them.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim - Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench - Andrée Melly put on a French accent, because Tony Hancock was a Francophile in real life.
* TheFifties - Being a British show, though, it's quite realistic rather than a Stepford suburban nightmare.
* TheDanza - Other than Williams' and Jacques' characters, the main characters all had the same name as the actors who played them.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim - Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench - Andrée Melly put on a French accent, because Tony Hancock was a Francophile in real life.
* TheFifties - Being a British show, though, it's quite realistic rather than a Stepford suburban nightmare.
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* CutLexLuthorACheck - CutLexLuthorACheck: Lampshaded in one episode, where Sid realises it's easier to go to the bank for an overdraft rather than come up with one of his usual over-complicated schemes.
*TheDanza - TheDanza: Other than Williams' and Jacques' characters, the main characters all had the same name as the actors who played them.
*DroppedABridgeOnHim - DroppedABridgeOnHim: Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
*EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench - EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Andrée Melly put on a French accent, because Tony Hancock was a Francophile in real life.
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* FunnyCharacterBoringActor - Tony Hancock was a brilliant actor, but in real life was very introverted and suffered from alcoholism. It is somewhat painful watching the struggles of the character when you know the actor's life went into a downward spiral which ended in suicide.
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* FunnyCharacterBoringActor - FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Tony Hancock was a brilliant actor, but in real life was very introverted and suffered from alcoholism. It is somewhat painful watching the struggles of the character when you know the actor's life went into a downward spiral which ended in suicide.
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* HaveAGayOldTime - In 'A Sunday Afternoon At Home', Tony compares the excitement of a Sunday afternoon 'on the Continent' with a boring old English Sunday afternoon, where everything's shut. Naturally, this leads him to describe continental Europe in the most positive terms, where 'everything's gay! Not over here [Britain].'
* HonestJohnsDealership - Sid James in the radio version.
* InSeriesNickname - Bill calls Tony 'Tub', though no-one else does.
* KilledOffForReal - 'The Bowmans' again.
* LockedInARoom - 'The Lift' - of course, it's all Tony's fault as usual.
* LostInTransmission - 'The Radio Ham'.
* MissingEpisode - 31 of the 102 radio episodes, including three episodes of the second series when Harry Secombe stood in for an unwell Tony Hancock. All of the first series of the TV series are missing, as well as all but one episode of the second series and approximately half of each of the third and fourth series. Many of the early episodes were live; the second series episode only survives because a BBC technician asked for a recording. A few radio episodes and a couple of crudely-recorded TV soundtracks have been recovered from domestic recordings.
* NegativeContinuity - Several radio episodes ended with Tony (and sometimes Sid and / or Bill) being killed or sentenced to a long stint in prison, or with Tony's house razed to the ground. By the next episode, everything was back to "normal".
* OddCouple - Lord knows why Tony puts up with Sid. Lord knows why Sid puts up with Tony. Probably only because sharing the rent is cheaper and nobody else would put up with either of them.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname - In 'The Reunion', all of Hancock's World War II army chums all have forties-style nicknames ('Chalky' White etc.).
* OverlyLongGag - "Wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"
* PressureSensitiveInterface - 'The Lift'.
* HonestJohnsDealership - Sid James in the radio version.
* InSeriesNickname - Bill calls Tony 'Tub', though no-one else does.
* KilledOffForReal - 'The Bowmans' again.
* LockedInARoom - 'The Lift' - of course, it's all Tony's fault as usual.
* LostInTransmission - 'The Radio Ham'.
* MissingEpisode - 31 of the 102 radio episodes, including three episodes of the second series when Harry Secombe stood in for an unwell Tony Hancock. All of the first series of the TV series are missing, as well as all but one episode of the second series and approximately half of each of the third and fourth series. Many of the early episodes were live; the second series episode only survives because a BBC technician asked for a recording. A few radio episodes and a couple of crudely-recorded TV soundtracks have been recovered from domestic recordings.
* NegativeContinuity - Several radio episodes ended with Tony (and sometimes Sid and / or Bill) being killed or sentenced to a long stint in prison, or with Tony's house razed to the ground. By the next episode, everything was back to "normal".
* OddCouple - Lord knows why Tony puts up with Sid. Lord knows why Sid puts up with Tony. Probably only because sharing the rent is cheaper and nobody else would put up with either of them.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname - In 'The Reunion', all of Hancock's World War II army chums all have forties-style nicknames ('Chalky' White etc.).
* OverlyLongGag - "Wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"
* PressureSensitiveInterface - 'The Lift'.
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* HaveAGayOldTime - HaveAGayOldTime: In 'A Sunday Afternoon At Home', Tony compares the excitement of a Sunday afternoon 'on the Continent' with a boring old English Sunday afternoon, where everything's shut. Naturally, this leads him to describe continental Europe in the most positive terms, where 'everything's gay! Not over here [Britain].'
*HonestJohnsDealership - HonestJohnsDealership: Sid James in the radio version.
*InSeriesNickname - InSeriesNickname: Bill calls Tony 'Tub', though no-one else does.
*KilledOffForReal - KilledOffForReal: 'The Bowmans' again.
*LockedInARoom - LockedInARoom: 'The Lift' - of course, it's all Tony's fault as usual.
*LostInTransmission - LostInTransmission: 'The Radio Ham'.
*MissingEpisode - MissingEpisode: 31 of the 102 radio episodes, including three episodes of the second series when Harry Secombe stood in for an unwell Tony Hancock. All of the first series of the TV series are missing, as well as all but one episode of the second series and approximately half of each of the third and fourth series. Many of the early episodes were live; the second series episode only survives because a BBC technician asked for a recording. A few radio episodes and a couple of crudely-recorded TV soundtracks have been recovered from domestic recordings.
*NegativeContinuity - NegativeContinuity: Several radio episodes ended with Tony (and sometimes Sid and / or Bill) being killed or sentenced to a long stint in prison, or with Tony's house razed to the ground. By the next episode, everything was back to "normal".
*OddCouple - OddCouple: Lord knows why Tony puts up with Sid. Lord knows why Sid puts up with Tony. Probably only because sharing the rent is cheaper and nobody else would put up with either of them.
*OnlyKnownByTheirNickname - OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: In 'The Reunion', all of Hancock's World War II army chums all have forties-style nicknames ('Chalky' White etc.).
*OverlyLongGag - OverlyLongGag: "Wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"
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* RogueJuror - It's the title of the episode, as well.
* RunningTimeInTheTitle - It was indeed half an hour. There was also a TV special called Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes. The last season was reduced to 25 minutes and renamed ''Hancock'' (as we said, [[{{Hancock}} not to be confused with...]])
* {{Sampling}} - JetSetRadio, of all things. The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
* SitcomCharacterArchetypes - Tony is The Dork and Sid is The Wisecracker.
* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring - 'The Train Journey'. Tony and Sid's fellow passengers are not amused...
* SoundToScreenAdaptation - The radio show started in 1954, and the TV series in 1956. From 1956 to 1959 the two versions ran simultaneously.
* RunningTimeInTheTitle - It was indeed half an hour. There was also a TV special called Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes. The last season was reduced to 25 minutes and renamed ''Hancock'' (as we said, [[{{Hancock}} not to be confused with...]])
* {{Sampling}} - JetSetRadio, of all things. The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
* SitcomCharacterArchetypes - Tony is The Dork and Sid is The Wisecracker.
* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring - 'The Train Journey'. Tony and Sid's fellow passengers are not amused...
* SoundToScreenAdaptation - The radio show started in 1954, and the TV series in 1956. From 1956 to 1959 the two versions ran simultaneously.
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* RogueJuror - RogueJuror: It's the title of the episode, as well.
*RunningTimeInTheTitle - RunningTimeInTheTitle: It was indeed half an hour. There was also a TV special called Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes. The last season was reduced to 25 minutes and renamed ''Hancock'' (as we said, [[{{Hancock}} not to be confused with...]])
*{{Sampling}} - {{Sampling}}: JetSetRadio, of all things. The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
*SitcomCharacterArchetypes - SitcomCharacterArchetypes: Tony is The Dork and Sid is The Wisecracker.
*SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring - SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring: 'The Train Journey'. Tony and Sid's fellow passengers are not amused...
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* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs - Although the various characters for whom Kenneth Williams used the "Snide" voice in the radio series were never explicitly said to be the same person, Tony tended to react as though he had had unpleasant previous encounters with them in other jobs. Sid is a more straightforward example, overlapping with HonestJohnsDealership.
* WithFriendsLikeThese - In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
* WithFriendsLikeThese - In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
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* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs - WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Although the various characters for whom Kenneth Williams used the "Snide" voice in the radio series were never explicitly said to be the same person, Tony tended to react as though he had had unpleasant previous encounters with them in other jobs. Sid is a more straightforward example, overlapping with HonestJohnsDealership.
*WithFriendsLikeThese - WithFriendsLikeThese: In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
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* YouSayTomato - In one episode where Tony was planning to emigrate, he was continually mispronouncing Canada (he said it as if it rhymed with Grenada) despite everyone's attempts to correct him.
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* BackupTwin - parodied in 'The Bowmans'
* TheBBC - in real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
* TheBBC - in real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
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* BackupTwin - parodied Parodied in 'The Bowmans'
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* TheBBC -in In real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
* TheBBC -
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* BritCom - arguably the first one.
* BritishAccents - you can't get much more Cockney than Sid James.
** Which is ironic given that Sid James was South African!
** Not too unexpected, given that South Africa is part of the Commonwealth and this was the 1950s. Lots of people still sounded British (or tried to). It'd be more jarring these days, but it's a few years later after all.
* BritishAccents - you can't get much more Cockney than Sid James.
** Which is ironic given that Sid James was South African!
** Not too unexpected, given that South Africa is part of the Commonwealth and this was the 1950s. Lots of people still sounded British (or tried to). It'd be more jarring these days, but it's a few years later after all.
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* BritCom - arguably Arguably the first one.
* BritishAccents -you You can't get much more Cockney than Sid James.
**James. Which is ironic given that Sid James was South African!
** NotAfrican, if not too unexpected, given that South Africa is part of the Commonwealth and this was the 1950s. Lots of people still sounded British (or tried to). It'd be more jarring these days, but it's a few years later after all.
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* {{Corpsing}} - happened from time to time and [[ThrowItIn left in]] since either the shows were live or (later) done without retakes.
* CutLexLuthorACheck - lampshaded in one episode, where Sid realises it's easier to go to the bank for an overdraft rather than come up with one of his usual over-complicated schemes.
* CutLexLuthorACheck - lampshaded in one episode, where Sid realises it's easier to go to the bank for an overdraft rather than come up with one of his usual over-complicated schemes.
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* {{Corpsing}} - happened Happened from time to time and [[ThrowItIn left in]] since either the shows were live or (later) done without retakes.
* CutLexLuthorACheck -lampshaded Lampshaded in one episode, where Sid realises it's easier to go to the bank for an overdraft rather than come up with one of his usual over-complicated schemes.
* CutLexLuthorACheck -
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* {{Dropped a Bridge on Him}} - Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
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* {{Dropped a Bridge on Him}} DroppedABridgeOnHim - Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
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* {{Flanderization}} - averted - Sid James goes from being an HonestJohn in the radio series to a DeadpanSnarker on TV.
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* {{Flanderization}} - averted - Averted; Sid James goes from being an HonestJohn in the radio series to a DeadpanSnarker on TV.
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* LostInTransmission - 'The Radio Ham'
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* LostInTransmission - 'The Radio Ham'Ham'.
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* OddCouple - Lord knows why Tony puts up with Sid. Lord knows why Sid puts up with Tony.
** Because sharing the rent is cheaper and nobody else would put up with either of them?
** Because sharing the rent is cheaper and nobody else would put up with either of them?
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* OddCouple - Lord knows why Tony puts up with Sid. Lord knows why Sid puts up with Tony.
** BecauseTony. Probably only because sharing the rent is cheaper and nobody else would put up with either of them?them.
** Because
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* PressureSensitiveInterface - 'The Lift'
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* PressureSensitiveInterface - 'The Lift'Lift'.
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* RogueJuror - it's the title of the episode, as well.
* RunningTimeInTheTitle - it was indeed half an hour. There was also a TV special called Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes. The last season was reduced to 25 minutes and renamed ''Hancock'' (as we said, [[{{Hancock}} not to be confused with...]])
* {{Sampling}} - JetSetRadio, of all things- The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
* RunningTimeInTheTitle - it was indeed half an hour. There was also a TV special called Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes. The last season was reduced to 25 minutes and renamed ''Hancock'' (as we said, [[{{Hancock}} not to be confused with...]])
* {{Sampling}} - JetSetRadio, of all things- The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
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* RogueJuror - it's It's the title of the episode, as well.
* RunningTimeInTheTitle -it It was indeed half an hour. There was also a TV special called Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes. The last season was reduced to 25 minutes and renamed ''Hancock'' (as we said, [[{{Hancock}} not to be confused with...]])
* {{Sampling}} - JetSetRadio, of allthings- things. The "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya8Srg9ngoU Let Mom Sleep]] is from ''Hancock's Half Hour''. It was in a GeorgeMichael song, too.
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* {{Sampling}} - JetSetRadio, of all
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''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio and later television comedy series of the 1950s. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who also created ''SteptoeAndSon''. The main character, a pompous self-important fool, was played by Tony Hancock. His boorish offsider, whose chief task it is to bring Tony back to reality, was played by Sid James. Bill Kerr also featured as Hancock's dim Australian boarder. (Hancock, James and Kerr's characters all used variations on their real names). Moira Lister, then Andrée Melly, played Tony's girlfriends. Later, Hattie Jacques played Hancock's secretary, the rather prim Miss Pugh. Kenneth Williams featured as a number of characters, most notably one nicknamed 'Snide'. In the TV version the regular cast was pared down to Hancock and James, although Williams and Jacques made a couple of guest appearances in early episodes.
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''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio and later television comedy series of the 1950s. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who also created ''SteptoeAndSon''. The main character, a pompous self-important fool, was played by Tony Hancock. His boorish offsider, whose chief task it is to bring Tony back to reality, was played by Sid James. Bill Kerr also featured as Hancock's dim Australian boarder. (Hancock, James and Kerr's characters all used variations on their real names). Moira Lister, Lister and then Andrée Melly, Melly played Tony's girlfriends. Later, Hattie Jacques played Hancock's secretary, the rather prim Miss Pugh. Kenneth Williams featured as a number of characters, most notably one nicknamed 'Snide'. In the TV version the regular cast was pared down to Hancock and James, although Williams and Jacques made a couple of guest appearances in early episodes.
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* TheBBC - in real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe, Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
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* TheBBC - in real life, the broadcaster of the show, and in-universe, in-universe Tony the failing actor sometimes worked on BBC shows.
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* {{Dropped a Bridge on Him}} - Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
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* {{Dropped a Bridge on Him}} - Played for laughs in "The Bowmans". After Hancock Hancock's character has been unceremoniously killed off from a radio soap opera, popular pressure forces the producers to bring him back. Tony Hancock insists that if he comes back, he be allowed to write his own scripts. The next episode features the rest of the cast walking across a field before falling down an abandoned mineshaft.
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** The plots themselves became less flanderized as the series progressed; changing from the complicated schemes of the radio series to simple character studies in the tv series (Sid & Tony take a train, Sid & Tony take bus ride, Tony goes to give blood).
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** The plots themselves became less flanderized as the series progressed; changing from the complicated schemes of the radio series to simple character studies in the tv TV series (Sid & Tony take a train, Sid & Tony take bus ride, Tony goes to give blood).
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* FunnyCharacterBoringActor - Tony Hancock was a brilliant actor, but in real life was very introverted and suffered from alcoholism. It is somewhat painful watching the struggles of the character when you know the actor's life went into a downward spiral, which ended in suicide.
** Similarly, Kenneth Williams was a wildly popular comic actor, who was known for his outrageously camp characters. In real life, he was very conflicted about being gay, as he was brought up to be deeply religious, and considered it immoral. He died of an overdose, which may have been an accident, or suicide.
** Similarly, Kenneth Williams was a wildly popular comic actor, who was known for his outrageously camp characters. In real life, he was very conflicted about being gay, as he was brought up to be deeply religious, and considered it immoral. He died of an overdose, which may have been an accident, or suicide.
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* FunnyCharacterBoringActor - Tony Hancock was a brilliant actor, but in real life was very introverted and suffered from alcoholism. It is somewhat painful watching the struggles of the character when you know the actor's life went into a downward spiral, spiral which ended in suicide.
** Similarly, Kenneth Williams was a wildly popular comic actor, who was known for his outrageously camp characters. In real life, he was very conflicted about being gay, as he was brought up to be deeply religious, and considered it immoral. He died of an overdose, which may have been anaccident, accident or suicide.
** Similarly, Kenneth Williams was a wildly popular comic actor, who was known for his outrageously camp characters. In real life, he was very conflicted about being gay, as he was brought up to be deeply religious, and considered it immoral. He died of an overdose, which may have been an
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* NegativeContinuity - Several radio episodes ended with Tony (and sometimes Sid and/or Bill) being killed or sentenced to a long stint in prison, or with Tony's house razed to the ground. By the next episode, everything was back to "normal".
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* NegativeContinuity - Several radio episodes ended with Tony (and sometimes Sid and/or and / or Bill) being killed or sentenced to a long stint in prison, or with Tony's house razed to the ground. By the next episode, everything was back to "normal".
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname - In 'The Reunion', all of Hancock's World War II army chums all have forties-style nicknames ('Chalky' White etc)
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname - In 'The Reunion', all of Hancock's World War II army chums all have forties-style nicknames ('Chalky' White etc)etc.).
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* InSeriesNickname - Bill calls Tony 'Tub', though no-one else does.
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* Corpsing - happened from time to time and [[ThrowItIn left in]] since either the shows were live or (later) done without retakes.
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* Corpsing {{Corpsing}} - happened from time to time and [[ThrowItIn left in]] since either the shows were live or (later) done without retakes.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs - Although the various characters for whom Kenneth Williams used the "Snide" voice in the radio series were never explicitly said to be the same person, Tony tended to react as though he had had unpleasant previous encounters with them in other jobs. Sid is a more straightforward example, overlapping with HonestJohnsDealership.
* WithFriendsLikeThese - In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
* WithFriendsLikeThese - In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
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* YouSayTomato: In one episode where Tony was planning to emigrate, he was continually mispronouncing Canada (he said it as if it rhymed with Grenada) despite everyone's attempts to correct him.
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* YouSayTomato: YouSayTomato - In one episode where Tony was planning to emigrate, he was continually mispronouncing Canada (he said it as if it rhymed with Grenada) despite everyone's attempts to correct him.
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* WithFriendsLikeThese: In the radio series and some of the early television series, Sid would frequently exploit or manipulate Tony for personal gain, such as by tricking him into stealing valuable goods, selling him (and Bill) into the French Foreign Legion, or conspiring to have his house knocked down to build a used car lot on the land.
** For his part, Tony was often comically cruel to Bill, making him do such dangerous tasks as lying in the road to prevent his car from being towed or acting as a human shield in case an unexploded bomb should go off. Nevertheless, Bill still considered "Tub" a friend.
** For his part, Tony was often comically cruel to Bill, making him do such dangerous tasks as lying in the road to prevent his car from being towed or acting as a human shield in case an unexploded bomb should go off. Nevertheless, Bill still considered "Tub" a friend.
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**Similarly, Kenneth Williams was a wildly popular comic actor, who was known for his outrageously camp characters. In real life, he was very conflicted about being gay, as he was brought up to be deeply religious, and considered it immoral. He died of an overdose, which may have been an accident, or suicide.
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Hattie and Kenneth were both regulars in Series 2; unfortunately, Hattie didn\'t appear in the one surviving episode from that series.
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''Hancock's Half Hour'' was a BBC radio and later television comedy series of the 1950s. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, who also created ''SteptoeAndSon''. The main character, a pompous self-important fool, was played by Tony Hancock. His boorish offsider, whose chief task it is to bring Tony back to reality, was played by Sid James. Bill Kerr also featured as Hancock's dim Australian boarder. (Hancock, James and Kerr's characters all used variations on their real names). Moira Lister, then Andrée Melly, played Tony's girlfriends. Later, Hattie Jacques played Hancock's secretary, the rather prim Miss Pugh. Kenneth Williams featured as a number of characters, most notably one nicknamed 'Snide'. In the TV version the regular cast was pared down to Hancock and James, although Williams and Jacques made a couple of guest appearances in early episodes.
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* BottleEpisode - 'The Bedsitter'
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* BottleEpisode - 'The Bedsitter'
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* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench - Andrée Melly put on a French accent, because Tony Hancock was a Francophile in real life.
** Played straight in the radio series with Bill Kerr, who became more simple-minded and childlike with each series.
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* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench - Andrée Melly put on a French accent, because Tony Hancock was a Francophile in real life.
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* CMOTDibbler - Sid James in the radio version.
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* CMOTDibbler HonestJohnsDealership - Sid James in the radio version.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment - In the episode "The Bowmans", Hancock alludes to thinking about killing himself. The real Hancock did kill himself.