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Season 1

  • SPECIAL 0x1 The Lighthouse Keeper

    • February 6, 1956

    With Reg O'List (understudy to Jimmy Edwards). From Jack Hylton Presents and repeated in The Arthur Halliwell Show

  • S01E01 Episode 1

    • April 27, 1956
    • ITV1

    Opening Party / Coffee Bar / A Street Car Names Desire / Spanish Dance. After a party to launch the new series, Tony Hancock invites viewers into a modern London coffee bar. With Dick Emery, Pamela Deeming and guitarist Emil Bibobi.

  • S01E02 Episode 2

    • May 4, 1956
    • ITV1

    Massage / Library / Armand and Michaela Denis / Balinese Dancing. Hancock the librarian has some trouble with a new book about golfing. A cultural performance takes viewers to the tribes of central India... With Dick Emery, Bernard Livesey, Jimmy White and Roy Bartley

  • S01E03 Episode 3

    • May 11, 1956
    • ITV1

    Audition / Agent's Office / Theatrical Costumier / Dressing Room . Musical Comedy. Anthony Hancock presents his own stage musical: a romance amongst pre-revolutionary French aristocracy, Love is Good. With the Barney Galbraith Singers.

  • S01E04 Episode 4

    • May 18, 1956
    • ITV1

    Office / Courtroom / Nightclub (Chez Hancock). Hancock has trouble with his secretary, and plays barrister in a court scene. Later, he staffs a high end London restaurant. With Ronan O'Casey, Valerie Frazer, Cyril Renison, Lizabeth Cassay and Eric Sykes.

  • S01E05 Episode 5

    • May 25, 1956
    • ITV1

    Albert Hall, Embankment, Gun Law, Conjurer, Calypso Dancing. Tony conducts a Prom at the Royal Albert Hall and plays marshal in a Wild West saloon bar, but he's far more concerned with June's telling the audience all of his secrets. With Robert Arden, Sam Kydd, Dorothy Blythe and Neale Warrington.

  • S01E06 Episode 6

    • June 1, 1956
    • ITV1

    Auctioneer / 'Death Of A Duchess'. For the last episode in the series, Hancock auctions off the show's assets. There's just enough time left to present an investigation of the great French detective Hercules Parrot. With Hattie Jacques, Ray Browne, Neale Warrington and Valentine Dyall. June Whitfield does not appear in this episode.