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Hancock's Half Hour

Season 4 1958 - 1959

  • 1958-12-26T00:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 30m
  • 6h 30m (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy
Broadcast between 26th December 1958 and 27th March 1959, this series comprised 13 episodes of which the first 4 were recorded and the remainder were broadcast live. Episodes 1, 3, 4, 11 and 12 survive in the BBC Archives whilst off-air audio recordings exist of episodes 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. The series was broadcast weekly on Fridays at 2105 (episodes 1 - 3) and Fridays 1930 (episodes 4 - 13). There were no repeats during the run other than a repeat of the third episode between episodes 9 and 10 on 27th February 1959.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1958-12-26T00:00:00Z

4x01 Ericsson the Viking

Season Premiere

4x01 Ericsson the Viking

  • 1958-12-26T00:00:00Z30m

Sid has persuaded Hancock to make a dramatic film which the BBC have agreed to broadcast. But Hancock is worried; after all when shooting started Sid's production company didn't even have a movie camera!

4x02 Underpaid, Or Grandad's SOS

  • 1959-01-02T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock discovers that his extremely rich grandfather is very ill in hospital in Australia. Sid, expecting a large bequest, hurries to Australia masquerading as Hancock..but the old man has no money left. Meanwhile, back in the UK, Sid's grandfather falls dangerously ill in prison....

1959-01-09T00:00:00Z

4x03 The Set That Failed

4x03 The Set That Failed

  • 1959-01-09T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock doesn't know what to do: his television set has broken down. He sets off on a quest to find a working TV and joins a family who are so focused on their TV that they don't notice that they have additional guests!

1959-01-16T00:00:00Z

4x04 The New Nose

4x04 The New Nose

  • 1959-01-16T00:00:00Z30m

After a particularly unsuccessful date, Hancock's puts his lack of success with the girls down to his nose. After refusing to come out from his home, Sid arranges for a friend who had had plastic surgery to visit Hancock. Hancock has the surgery so success with the ladies is now guaranteed....or is it?

4x05 The Flight of the Red Shadow

  • 1959-01-23T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock has been in a production of 'The Desert Song' but when it closes prematurely Hancock and Sid escape with only their costumes. Dressed as an Indian Maharajah, Hancock is mistaken for a genuine visiting Maharajah and ends up addressing a meeting but has to flee again.

1959-01-30T00:00:00Z

4x06 The Horror Serial

4x06 The Horror Serial

  • 1959-01-30T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock has been watching the last episode of the horror serial 'Quatermass & The Pit' and is now in a very nervous state. When he discovers an unknown object in his garden, Sid thinks it's an unexploded bomb and calls in the Bomb Squad but Hancock is convinced its an extra- terrestial craft.

1959-02-06T00:00:00Z

4x07 The Italian Maid

4x07 The Italian Maid

  • 1959-02-06T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock hires a domestic help but she turns out to be an Italian beauty. An immediate rivalry develops between Hancock and Sid for her attentions with Hancock ending up doing all the housework...but then her family arrives.

1959-02-13T00:00:00Z

4x08 Matrimony......Almost

4x08 Matrimony......Almost

  • 1959-02-13T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock meets a girl at an upper class party. Hancock believes that she has money and Sid tells her that Hancock has money so a marriage is rapidly arranged. But all is not as it seems!

1959-02-20T00:00:00Z

4x09 The Beauty Contest

4x09 The Beauty Contest

  • 1959-02-20T00:00:00Z30m

The local council decide not to hold a Miss East Cheam contest because of the low standard of entrants the previous year. So, instead, they decide to hold a Mr East Cheam contest instead. Hancock and Sid enter and both expect to win!

1959-03-06T00:00:00Z

4x10 The Wrong Man

4x10 The Wrong Man

  • 1959-03-06T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock agrees to attend an identity parade at the local Police station. But when he is mistakenly picked out by 3 witnesses he decides to prove his innocence by recreating the crime!

1959-03-13T00:00:00Z

4x11 The Oak Tree

4x11 The Oak Tree

  • 1959-03-13T00:00:00Z30m

The tree in Hancock's garden is threatened with felling because it is a danger to passing buses and also to make way for a lamp-post. He is incensed and organises a protest march to Downing Street to try to save it!

1959-03-20T00:00:00Z

4x12 The Knighthood

4x12 The Knighthood

  • 1959-03-20T00:00:00Z30m

Hancock is determined to receive a Knighthood and decides that Shakespearean theatre is the only answer. Surely a stint at Stratford interpreting Shakespeare as Long John Silver will be all that's required?

Season Finale

1959-03-27T00:00:00Z

4x13 The Servants

Season Finale

4x13 The Servants

  • 1959-03-27T00:00:00Z30m

The TV Series is finally over so Hancock and Sid need to get jobs. They take on the role as servants dressed as an elderly couple. But when they take it turns to be the woman suspicions are aroused!

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