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Hancock with the writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (who had met in a TB ward and would go on to create anther classic in the shape of Steptoe and Son). The duo heavily based their TV character on Hancock himself so the TV Hancock is given to gloomy introspection and never satisfied with his lot much like his real life counterpart.
This second volume of shows from Roadshow brings five further treats from the archive and very welcome it is too, very little English TV remains from the 1950's and what there is is seldom seen. The five episodes are Ericson The Viking, The Set That Failed, The New Nose, The Oak Tree and The Knighthood, most of Hancock's Half Hour episodes follow pretty much the same format, Hancock has his grand plans wrought asunder by the scheming of his spiv flatmate Sid James (James does much to add to the Hancock legend and was probably as popular as Hancock himself, a fact Hancock acknowledged and didn't like deciding by 1960 that he would be better off without James on the show).
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