John Vere as
Episodes 21
The Chef That Died of Shame
This episode was based on the 6th episode of the 2nd Radio series. The cast play the parts in the story of 'Iggins, a cook who becomes a well respected chef but subsequently fails and loses everything due to drink.
Read MoreThe Alpine Holiday
Hancock upsets his fellow passengers on a flight to Switzerland and then discovers that he has to share his room at the hotel. Initially he thinks that he is sharing with an attractive French girl only to discover that it is really a yodeller and Alpine Horn player!
Read MoreLady Chatterley's Revenge
Hancock is given a small part in the East Cheam Repertory Company's production of 'Moon Over Tahiti' but then they forget to tell him when the play is changed to 'Lady Chatterley's Revenge'!
Read MoreThe New Neighbour
This episode was based on the 4th episode of the 3rd Radio series. Hancock is worried by his new neighbour who seems to keep bringing in bodies and dumping them in an incinerator in the back garden. Hancock decides to investigate...
Read MoreThe Pianist
Hancock dreams that he has a job as a night club pianist and he falls in love with a foreign baroness. But she is engaged and Hancock is challenged to a duel with her fiancé!
Read MoreThe Great Detective
Hancock dreams of becoming the great detective 'Sexton Hancock' and proceeds to unravel a complicated murder plot.
Read MoreThe Amusement Arcade
Sid has set up an amusement arcade, but when Hancock finds out he leads a campaign to have it closed down. Meanwhile, Hancock seeks election to the Council but when Sid's arcade is closed down he moves it... to Hancock's house!
Read MoreAir Steward Hancock - The Last of the Many
Hancock takes on a new job as an air steward. But when one of the passengers on his first flight is Sid who is on the run from the police, and the other passengers include four police officers looking for a bank robber, Hancock's first landing doesn't go quite as expected!
Read MoreThe Regimental Reunion
Hancock, a junior clerk in a City office for 19 years, receives a promotion when his army friends, who met at a reunion, place large orders with the firm. However, they are all fraudulent orders and Sid has the takings!
Read MoreThe Adopted Family
Hancock needs to get to the top of the waiting list for a Council House but to do this he needs a wife and four children. So he adopts Sid and four of his mates, but then he can't get rid of them!
Read MoreThe Elocution Teacher
Famous actor Jack Hawkins takes elocution lessons with Hancock and is reduced to being the leader of a rock-and-roll group.
Read MoreThe Lawyer - The Crown vs Sidney James
Hancock becomes a lawyer but when he defends an obviously guilty Sid James in court he finds himself the subject of a guilty verdict!
Read MoreCompetitions - How to Win Money and Influence People
Hancock takes up entering newspaper competitions as a full time job. When he wins a few competitions, he is foolish enough to trust Sid to look after the money.
Read MoreThere's An Airfield At the Bottom of My Garden
Hancock buys a house from Sid but discovers that there's an airfield at the bottom of his garden! Returning to Sid dissatisfied, he is forced to try to sell the house himself but he has considerable difficulties, some of them unscripted! This is because the set was designed to fall apart at a given point in the script but unfortunately, the set starts to fall apart too early and Hancock is forced to improvise!
Read MoreEricsson the Viking
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!
Read MoreThe Set That Failed
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!
Read MoreThe Flight of the Red Shadow
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.
Read MoreThe Italian Maid
Hancock hires a domestic help who 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.
Read MoreMatrimony - Almost
Hancock meets a girl at an upper class party. He 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!
Read MoreThe Beauty Contest
The local council decide not to hold a Miss East Cheam contest because of the low standard of entrants the previous year. Instead they decide to hold a Mr East Cheam contest - Hancock and Sid enter and both expect to win!
Read MoreThe Oak Tree
The tree in Hancock's garden is threatened with felling to make way for a lamp-post and because it is a danger to passing buses. He is incensed and organises a protest march to Downing Street to try to save it!
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