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Hancock's Half Hour: The Very Best Episodes: v. 1 (Radio Collection)

Hancock's Half Hour: The Very Best Episodes: v. 1 (Radio Collection)

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Artist: Alan Simpson
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
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ISBN: 056350403X
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Publication Date: September 5, 2005
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5 out of 5 stars Worth buying for new material   December 13, 2006
 4 out of 5 found this review helpful

These 'best' episodes have previously been available on LP record and cassette. These new CD's contain material which was edited out of the original releases - particularly from "Sid's Mystery Tours" and "Sunday Afternoon at Home", while "Wild Man of Woods" includes a lovely verbal slip from Bill Kerr. So if you think you know these episodes, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised to find new lines, and new laughs.


5 out of 5 stars A tour de force !   February 12, 2006
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

what else can you say ? Tony Hancock was a genius for his impeccable timing, the cast including Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Sid James and Hattie Jacques were sublime and the scripts are so well written. This is classic Hancock's Half Hour without the intrusion of later commercial interests.
If you like Hancock buy this !



5 out of 5 stars The Very Best Indeed   January 13, 2006
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Thank heavens! I was about to spend a small fortune on the complete radio series, just so that I could listen to perhaps a dozen episodes, but this has turned up. It really does contain the best of the radio series, and I hope that vols 2 & 3 complete the dozen episodes I'm most after. The writing is inspired craziness (spot the origins of Monty Python's dead-parrot sketch, for instance) that becomes lyrical at times, and the cast is terrific. The four episodes on this CD were previously available as cassettes, but in a shortened form. Here they are complete and very welcome. This is a superb introduction to Hancock's radio humour. If you don't like these, you probably won't like any of his other work. Only one warning: it'll help to know (or to quickly guess) the meaning of dated slang from the mid-50s. Not necessarily a big problem, but one to be aware of.


3 out of 5 stars Good but could be better.   January 2, 2006
 2 out of 8 found this review helpful

This collection may be the writers favorite episodes but only the first Sid's mystery tour is really funny. If you are expecting classic Hancock like the blood donor than you are in for a disappointment.

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