The East Cheam Repertory Company Presents Hancocks Forty Three Minutes One of the greatest television series that you may have never seen is a series from the 1950s into early 1960s called Hancock�s Half Hour . This series starred comedian Tony Hancock and was a great series which highlighted a couple of things that were not done at the time in BBC comedy but is now very familiar to us. The series which was written by Galton & Simpson would later bring us the great series Steptoe and Son but here they took Tony Hancock and turned him into a character of the series. Tony Hancock did not play any specific character that had its own name, the character�s name was Tony Hancock. In this fictitious world, Tony Hancock often worked for the BBC, just like the real Tony Hancock. This Tony Hancock sometimes had his own radio series called Hancock�s Half Hour , just like the real Tony Hancock. In fact, all the main characters kept their names. In the TV version that was really just Tony Hanc...