Saturday night, time for some classic Hancock! Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you?

Tony: Where's me charts, ah there we are. Let me see now, the time is five past three, yes, according to the chart the north star should be approx 2ft 9 to the left of Mrs 'iggins TV aeriel. Yes, there she is, the sailors friend. Bill: The north star? Tony: No, Mrs 'iggins!

Tony: Don't think we're unaware of the real reason for this unwarranted outburst. It's class distinction isn't it? You don't think we should be in here do you, first class, people like us? You think we should be travelling up the front with the coal! #TheTrainJourney

Tony: Sid! Sid: What? Tony: There's a car behind us Sid:  So what? Tony: It's ringing a bell. I wonder what it's doing that for Sid: Probably selling crumpets Tony: I shouldn't think he'll sell many doing 80 miles an hour! #TheJewelRobbery Artwork: Jon Street

Remembering Ray Galton OBE who passed away #OTD 5 October 2018. Ray & Alan Simpson worked with Hancock for 10 years, including writing over 160 radio and TV episodes of Hancock's Half Hour and Hancock and The Rebel. Ray loved The Bowmans, let's enjoy in his memory.

Tony: I'm just going to shout my last defiant message to the world. You're doomed, all of you! Return to nature before it's too late! Kenneth: Go to bed you old drunk! Tony: I am not drunk sir, I have seen the light! Kenneth: You'll see my fist if you don't shut up!

love Saturdays, best day of the week. No work, the weekend to look forward to, and Saturday night coming up! The big night! The one bright spot in a week of unrelieved gloom! The one part of life's tragic panorama that I can really put up with! #SaturdayNight

Tony: I feel a right Charlie sitting here sometimes.  Every other bed in the ward piled high with visitors. And I have to sit up with my headphones on, smiling as if I don’t care. I’ve heard them. "Nobody visiting him again today, poor man, take a biscuit over to him!"

Re-recorded 65 years ago today #OTD 1 October 1961, the Pye version of The Radio Ham. Originally made as a BBC TV show, it was re-made for an LP in the radio style. We celebrate in the forthcoming issue of The Missing Page where we speak to the sound engineer who was there!

Tony: Mr Sidney James will be seen as the villainous unscrupulous money grabbing landlord, a role which requires no acting ability on his part whatsoever!   #TheEastCheamDramaFestival

Sid: I’ve never known anyone so finicky over their car as you are.  I haven’t cleaned my car for three years Tony: That’s only so that any witnesses won’t be able to tell what colour it is. It’s a disgrace your car is. You have to feel along the door to find where the handle is!

Tony: I wonder where it came from? Where’s the postmark? Bill:  Durham Tony:  Durham.  I didn’t go very well up there, I remember, they hated the sight of me. Sid:  Why pick on Durham?  They all hated the sight of you! #TheThreateningLetters

Tony: Oh yes, they'll be going to see his sister in Acton. They always go that way. If they were going the other way, it'd be her mother in Tooting. Oh, they've gone. Oh well, that's about all the excitement we could expect today. #SundayAfternoonAtHome

Tony: A roomful of unpublished Byron, the artistic find of the century! I can feel his presence. Yes, genius has been at work here... "I wish I were a chestnut tree, and nourished by the sun, With twigs and leaves and branches, And conkers by the ton!" #LordByronLivedHere

You're never alone with a pilchard! #TheBowmans

Andreè: You haven't done a days work for 12 years Tony: It's not my fault! The trade I'm in, it's passing through a slack period Bill: What is your trade? Tony: I'm an airship builder! #TheMatador

Sid: I would have thought you'd have known better by now. When are you going to learn to keep your spudgrinder shut! Tony: What do you mean, spudgrinder? What does that mean? Speak the Queen's English man, if you mean cakehole, say so!

I remember Von Rundstedt's last push. Tiger Harrison & me, being in a forward position were cut off behind enemy lines. Captain Harrison, I said. Yes sir he said. Jerry's overlooked us, where shall we head for? Berlin, he said. Right, I said, last one in the Reichstag is a sissy!

Tony: Sidney, you'll entertain the vicar while we're corking the wine, won't you? Sid: Certainly, certainly, mate. Tell me vicar, as a man interested in church architecture how much lead do you think there is on that big gothic one round the corner! #TheUnexplodedBomb

Tony: Oh, by the way, thanks for the bottle of Slivovitch Belgrade voice: Oh, you received it Tony: Yes, very good. I had a sore throat for a fortnight! There's a crate of stout in the post, I hope you like it! #TheRadioHam

Tony: Music? Liz: Yes, why not Tony: What would you like to hear? Charmaine? That's good Liz: Haven't you got anything by Rackmaninoff? Tony: Unless he wrote Charmaine, no! #TheBequest

Andree: We should be able to find a set we like out of all these Bill: It's s bit expensive, this place Tub. Look at that little table model, 8 inch screen, they want 240 for it Tony: That's volts! Bill: I don't care what currency it is, it's a lot of money #TheTelevisionSet

Tony: 3 pies please & 3 mugs of steaming hot chicory essence Fred: Wiv or wivout? Tony: Wiv or wivout what? Fred: 'andles Tony: Come now Fred, you know I 'ave 'andles. Lots of ladies pass by and its hard to cock the little finger when its wrapped round a cup of coffee!

McNasty: I said lift up your kilt Tony: This is highly irregular, I..... McNasty: Just let me see your legs Tony: If it gives you any pleasure. There. McNasty: By the great steaming porridge bowl of Flora Mcdonald, you're a McHancock! #TheLastOfTheMcHancocks

Remembering comedy legend Peter Sellers, born #OTD 8 September 1925. He met Hancock in the RAF and the pair remained friends. Sellers appeared in an episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Marriage Bureau, and they appeared in two films together, Orders are Orders and The Wrong Box

SATURDAY I shall be heading to glamorous Solihull, to do a talk for the @tonyhancock.bsky.social Annual Reuinon Dinner on the unmade Galton and Simpson/Hancock musical, 'Noah', which will have a couple of exclusive surprises as well as a ton of new research (Booked THAS members only, sorry)

Miss Pugh: Well, well, look who it is. The oldest Teddy Boy in Cheam. I do believe your clothes get more repulsive every time I see you. Sid: Do you mind? Let us in. There’s a wind out here. Miss Pugh: Well, it couldn’t get up those trouser legs! #TheNewRadioSeries

Tony: Beautiful friendships were formed in those days, born in the heat of battle and forged in the plonk bars of Cairo. Ah, you'll love them Sid. Four of us. We were like quads we were. Smudger Smith, Ginger Johnson, Chalky White and me. Sid: Kippers Hancock! #TheReunionParty

How did THAS explain the internet to members in 1995? "Put very crudely, the Internet is a kind of CB radio-cum-Ceefax using computers and telephone lines" Our new book, Hancock's Half Hundred, 50 years of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, out now!

Tony: What a sight she is first thing in the morning. Why dont you take the curlers out of your hair and make yourself look presentable. What are these bits of cucumber doing on your forehead? Miss Pugh: It does the skin good Tony: It hasn't done the cucumber much good has it!