Hancock's Half Hour

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Classic BBC comedy starring Tony Hancock, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson

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Hancock's Half Hour: Series 5: The Americans Hit Town

The Americans Hit Town

Series 5

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Visiting servicemen get Griselda excited and Sid is keen to rent out the Lad's rooms.

Visiting servicemen get Griselda excited and Sid is keen to rent out the Lad's rooms. Stars Tony Hancock. From March 1958.

Some visiting servicemen get Griselda Pugh all excited - and Sid all keen to rent out the Lad's rooms.

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy about the life and times of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With:

Sidney James
Bill Kerr
Kenneth Williams
Hattie Jacques

Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott.

Producer: Tom Ronald

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1958.

Hancock's Half Hour: Series 5

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