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Missing Episodes
Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock: replaced by SecombeHancock's Half Hour
31 of the 102 radio Hancock Half Hours, including three episodes of the second series when Harry Secombe stood in for an indisposed Tony Hancock.

Of the television Hancock Half Hours, all of the first series are missing, as well as all but one episode of the second series and approximately half of each of the third and fourth series.


Radio Shows

Series 1
09/11/1954 The Diamond Ring
30/11/1954 Hancock Festival
14/12/1954 The Department Store Santa
21/12/1954 Christmas at Aldershot
28/12/1954 The Christmas Eve Party
08/02/1955 The Marriage Bureau

Series 2
17/04/1955 A Holiday In France
26/04/1955 The Crown Jewels
03/05/1955 The Racehorse
10/05/1955 A Visit To Swansea
31/05/1955 Prime Minister Hancock
21/06/1955 The Three Sons

Series 3
09/11/1955 The New Neighbour
16/11/1955 The Winter Holiday
23/11/1955 The Blackboard Jungle
30/11/1955 The Red Planet
07/12/1955 The Diet
14/12/1955 Visit to Russia
21/12/1955 The Trial of Father Christmas
28/12/1955 Cinderella Hancock (same title as series 1)
04/01/1956 New Year Resolutions
25/01/1956 The Breakfast Cereal
01/02/1956 How Hancock Won the War
08/02/1956 The Newspaper

Series 4
28/10/1956 Sid James' Dad

Television Shows

Series 1
06.07.56 The First TV Show
20.07.56 The Artist
03.08.56 The Dancer
17.08.56 The Bequest
31.08.56 The Radio Show
14.09.56 The Chef That Died Of Shame

Series 2
15.04.57 Lady Chatterley's Revenge
29.04.57 The Russian Prince
13.05.57 The New Neighbour
27.05.57 The Pianist
10.06.57 The Auction

Series 3
30.09.57 The Continental Holiday
07.10.57 The Great Detective
14.10.57 The Amusment Arcade
21.10.57 A Holiday In Scotland
04.11.57 The Regimental Reunion
11.11.57 The Adopted Family
25.11.57 The Elocution Teacher

Series 4
02.01.59 Unerpaid! Or Grandad's SOS
23.01.59 The Flight Of The Red Shadow
30.01.59 The Horror Serial
06.02.59 The Italian Maid
13.02.59 Matrimony-Almost
20.02.59 The Beauty Contest
06.03.59 The Wrong Man
27.03.59 The Servants




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