Rent The Very Best of Hancock (1961)
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2h 6min
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- Synopsis:
"The Very Best of Hancock" isn't just a miscellaneous compilation of his television work, rather it is five of the six episodes from Hancock's last season with the BBC in 1961.
1. The Bedsitter
It's a dull day, with Hancock endlessly picking up and setting down 'improving' books and failing to watch television. But then the phone rings, and Svengali swings into action.
2. The Bowmans
When Old Joshua Merryweather is unceremoniously asked from an Archers - style radio spoof, the station is bombarded with protest letters and so the appalling Joshua is re-instated - leaving Hancock hell - bent on revenge.
3. The Radio Ham'Maybe! Maybe!' A radio ham in England - the lad himself, picks up the desperate messages from a stricken vessel off the coast of Sierra Leone.
4. The Lift
'Eight Persons is eight persons - you'll have to get out', insists the attendant as Hancock barges into a crowed lift. But he Won't budge and neither will the lift.
5. The Blood Donor
'A pint, why that's nearly an armful!' protests our public spirited hero when he decides 'to give so that others may live.' But a deposit can all too quickly be followed by a sudden withdrawal.- Actors:
- Tony Hancock, Hugh Lloyd, June Whitfield, Gwenda Ewen, Patrick Cargill, William Sherwood, Bernard Hunter, Ralph Wilson, Colin Gordon, Jack Watling, Myrtle Reed, John Le Mesurier, Charles Lloyd Pack, Noel Howlett, Diana King, Jose Read, John Bluthal, Frank Thornton, Andrew Faulds, Michael Aspel
- Directors:
- Duncan Wood
- Producers:
- Duncan Wood
- Writers:
- Ray Galton, Alan Simpson
- Aka:
- Hancock: The Very Best of
- Studio:
- BBC
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies
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