These are now oft-repeated. Whereas it must be many years since they broadcast any of the non-lost episodes. Why the one, yet not t'other?
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UncleEbenezer wrote:Radio 4 are once again presenting The Missing Hancocks. Episodes of Hancock's Half Hour that they have lost and reconstructed.
These are now oft-repeated. Whereas it must be many years since they broadcast any of the non-lost episodes. Why the one, yet not t'other?
didds wrote:Its like much comedy, drama et al series that last a considerable length of time. Most episodes were "OK", some were just rubbish, and a few were brilliant. "Sunday Afternoon" is - for me - an all time classic. For those maybe that lived before the times of 24 x 7 TV, 10-4pm shops, 12-22 pubs, and just about everything being open on a Sunday, it summed up a winter's Sunday perfectly. FA to do and limited entertainment.
The ability to churn out 107 radio episodes and 63 TV episodes over 7 years, even with the talents of Galton and Simpson, was always going to stretch credibility.
kempiejon wrote:I was reminded of listening to the tapes as a kid and could still recite the bit about the gravy.
bungeejumper wrote:kempiejon wrote:I was reminded of listening to the tapes as a kid and could still recite the bit about the gravy.
Indeed. At least it used to move about a bit.
There were plenty of other radio comics at the time who haven't survived the shift in modern tastes nearly so well as Hancock. Take the Goons, for example. (Please, please, somebody take the Goons...) But Hancock's inner darkness, which eventually killed him, was only one part of the recipe, I think. He also expressed the genuine bewilderment of people who'd seen the war but couldn't quite bring themselves to trust the peace, or to adapt to it even though they knew it was better and more hopeful. I've worked with someone who had the same depressive syndrome, in more recent times, and it was just awful for him because he just couldn't trust himself and so he always felt he'd failed, even when he hadn't.
And then there was Sid James, of course. Ye gods, how tough that collaboration must have been....
BJ
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