Talk:Hancock's Half Hour

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It would be very useful to have a list of all known radio/TV episodes, and information on which CDs/DVDs they can be found, perhaps on a grid? Certainly a list of the Available DVDs and CDs would be useful.

Moved from the article:

Much more detail on classic episodes to come

BillyH 23:31, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Rediscovered episodes 2 Classic Episodes 3 HHH and Harold Pinter 4 Scandinavian adaptions

[edit] Rediscovered episodes

I removed the reference to The New Secretary being rediscoved in 2005, as this episode appears on Hancock's Half Hour Vol. 10, released in 1998. JW 14:16, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, my mistake. The article originally said that the two episodes were 'recently' recovered, which told us nothing. I knew The Blackboard Jungle was recovered last year, so I just put 2005 for both of them. BillyH 16:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Classic Episodes

I have tried to find synopses of some classic episodes but I can't find any on the web. I know some of these in detail and would be prepared to put in some effort to do this, but there are so many, and it is probably very contentious.

I would want to see the following:

• The Wild Man of the Woods
• Sunday Afternoon at Home
• The Missing Page
• The Private Life of Anthony Hancock

Then

• The Blood Donor
• Radio Ham
• The Reunion
• Hancock Alone

I personally think that the Missing Page represents a high point not only in the Hancock canon, but in the whole of mid-20th century comedy. The timing is wonderful, and the script superb. There is a flaw, in the the whole thing is based on a falsehood; you wouldn't turn over the page to find it's missing, but to lose that would have been to lose many superb comedic moments. The section where Sid James claims to have worked out whodunnit, and convinces Hancock that it's Harry Zimmerman, and Hancock drifts off into reveries and understanding only to pull himself back sharply to exclaim "Harry Zimmerman was killed on p2!". A masterpiece. The end, too where they find the author is deceased. "Dead! The Fool!" wonderful.

You might detect I would have a little trouble with the NPOV here, though.

--TonyFleet 15:06, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HHH and Harold Pinter

The small resemblance to Pinter's work is only really apparent in the two series of 1958 and 1959, I think. Pinter's first plays date from 1957 and 1958, so "several years" was misleading. Philip Cross 22:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scandinavian adaptions

Galton & Simpson's scripts were adapted by Swedish director Bo Hermansson, for the Norwegian (later Swedish/Norwegian co-production) TV series Fleksnes (1972–88), as well as the film Den siste Fleksnes (1974) . G & S wrote new original scripts for the 30 years anniversary episodes in 2002. Hermansson also directed a Swedish TV series and a Norwegian film based on Steptoe and Son. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Linkomfod (talk • contribs) 19:32, 6 October 2007 (UTC)