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Hancock's Half Hour : 1960s : LP Remakes of TV

Heard
1961
Episodes
5
Language
English

Hancock's Half Hour : LP re-makes

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Spoken word comedy. 1960s re-recordings (audio only) of episodes from the 1950s television series starring Tony Hancock, produced by Pye Records for LP release on vinyl disc.

In most cases the LP recording uses the original television cast, who do their best to re-create the television episode in sound-only (subject to minor script changes to cater for the lack of pictures).

This was fairly easy to achieve. Hancock had begun as a radio comedian: his comedy was predominantly based on telling jokes, rather than on the use of sight-gags (which had no place on radio). Hence his tv show, written by his original radio scriptwriters, tended to use scripts that were really radio scripts, i.e. in which nearly all the comedy came from the dialogue.

These LPs were commercial discs sold to the general public. This was a merchandising spin-off resulting from the popularity of the television series.

Includes the two most famous television scripts: The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham.

So here is The Blood Donor, complete with Hancock's most famous catchphrase. Asked to give blood, he objects on the grounds that the doctor is taking too much, and fears he'll be left with an empty limb:

• A pint? That's very nearly an armful!

Good Quality Audio

MPEG-4 Audio

128/320 Kbps

48 kHz

.m4a (aac)

The 50 year period of broadcast copyright under section 14(2) of the UK's Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48) has…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Hancock's Half Hour - The Missing Page - TV soundtrack

    No date given · 30 min

  2. Hancock's Half Hour - The Poison Pen Letters - TV soundtrack

    No date given · 29 min

  3. Hancock's Half Hour - The Blood Donor - LP remake (1961) 192 Kbps

    No date given · No. 1961 · 28 min

  4. Hancock's Half Hour - The Missing Page - LP remake (1965)

    No date given · No. 1965 · 33 min

  5. Hancock's Half Hour - The Reunion Party - LP remake (1965)

    No date given · No. 1965 · 33 min

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  1. Hancock's Half Hour : 1960s : LP Remakes of TV Episodes

    Old Time Radio · 5 episodes here · archive.org

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