TV sitcom BBC One 1956 - 1961 63 episodes (7 series) Welcome to 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, residence of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock - a down-at-heel comedian whose life never goes to plan.
Harry Secombe covered the Hancock role for the first three episodes, before Tony Hancock resurfaced in time to record the fourth. Galton and Simpson then rewrote the script so that as part of the ...
In the episode There's An Airfield At The Bottom Of My Garden, parts of the set - due to collapse in a later scene - self-destruct too early, leaving Tony Hancock holding ... British television. The ...