In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first television broadcast, this collection brings together all 37 surviving episodes from the original canon of 56 of hancocks half hour and hancock, from 1956 to 1961. This classic sitcom was written by galton and simpson and featured, of course, east cheam's most famous resident, tony hancock. Dvd extras the succession son heir face to face tony hancock interview missing scripts pdfs 3 audio commentaries with ray galton, alan simpson and paul merton running time 1083 minutes region region 2 this dvd may not be viewable outside europe. Read more about dvd formats. Subtitles english release date 22 oct. 2007