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Hancock's Half Hour

1956 – 1961Show7 seasons · 63 episodesEnded

Comedy
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.4
79
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.4

Summary

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.

Good for

  • Date night
  • Family movie night
  • Friends night

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Fingerprint

  • Feels like real life.
  • Feels like comfort food.
  • Makes you laugh.

Not for scares, brutality or adrenaline.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Tropes

Can't You Read the Sign?in 162 titlesIn "The Lift", Hancock barges into a crowded lift, in defiance of the sign "This lift is constructed for eight persons".Easy AdoptionRare · in 4 titlesIn "The Adopted Family", Sid's scheme to get Hancock a council house is for Hancock to adopt him and four of his dodgy mates — Educated Albert, Little Louis, Heathcliffe, and Big Boots — all five of…All 88 tropes

Hancock's Half Hour episodes

7 seasons · 63 episodes

  1. S2 E1 The Alpine Holiday, 7.4
  1. S3 E5 Air Steward Hancock, 7.6
  2. S3 E9 The Lawyer: The Crown v James S., 7.8
  3. S3 E10 How to Win Money and Influence People, 7.5
  4. S3 E11 There's an Airfield at the Bottom of My Garden, 7.6
  5. S3 E12 Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes, 6.5
  1. S4 E1 Ericson the Viking, 7.5
  2. S4 E3 The Set That Failed, 8.1
  3. S4 E4 The New Nose, 7.2
  4. S4 E11 The Oak Tree, 7.4
  5. S4 E12 The Knighthood, 7.1
  1. S5 E1 The Economy Drive, 8.6
  2. S5 E2 The Two Murderers, 8.2
  3. S5 E3 Lord Byron Lived Here, 8.2
  4. S5 E4 Twelve Angry Men, 8.4
  5. S5 E5 The Train Journey, 7.6
  6. S5 E6 The Cruise, 7.8
  7. S5 E7 The Big Night, 7.6
  8. S5 E8 The Tycoon, 7.2
  9. S5 E9 Spanish Interlude, 7.0
  10. S5 E10 Football Pools, 8.1
  1. S6 E1 The Cold, 7.7
  2. S6 E2 The Missing Page, 8.8
  3. S6 E3 The Emigrant, 7.4
  4. S6 E4 The Reunion Party, 8.3
  5. S6 E5 Sid in Love, 7.9
  6. S6 E6 The Baby Sitters, 7.4
  7. S6 E7 The Ladies' Man, 7.5
  8. S6 E8 The Photographer, 7.5
  9. S6 E9 The East Cheam Centenary, 7.4
  10. S6 E10 The Poison Pen Letters, 8.2

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