ATV TV Series 3

First broadcast January 3, 1963

(with Martita Hunt, Kenneth Griffith, Adrienne Poster, Patrick Cargill, Mario Fabrizi, Annie Leake, Jennifer Tippet, Rory McDermot and Alex Farell)

Hancock is challenged by a Department Store Manager to work in the store for a week without being rude to the customers.

The TV Times contained part one of an article entitled Hancock

First broadcast January 10, 1963

(with Peter Vaughan, Allan Cuthbertson, John Cater, Pauline Yates, Joan Benham, Keith Pyott, Maitland Moss, Geoffrey Denton, Lane Meddick, Robin Chapman and Gareth Robinson)

Hancock is the unwitting witness to a bank robbery and insists on helping the police in their investigations.

The TV Timescontained part two of an article entitled Hancock

First broadcast January 17, 1963

(with Denholm Elliott, Frances Rowe, Hilda Barry, Sally Anne Shaw, Robin Hunter, Stuart Guidotti, Alf Mangan, Tracy Vernon, Irena Rodzianko, Donald Groves and Bud Strait)

A film director decides that to aim for ‘realism’ in his film, he needs to use non-professional actors. Hiring Tony for the part he doesn’t get reality but incompetence!

The TV Times contained part three of an article entitled Hancock.

First broadcast January 24, 1963

(with Judith Stott, Dennis Price, Edna Petrie, Norman Chappell, Robin Wentworth, Patsy Smart, Dany Clare, Fred MacNaughton, and Nancy Nevinson)

Hancock meets a pretty nurse but he doesn’t find out her name. So he goes to the hospital to try to track her down.

The TV Times contained part four of an article entitled Hancock

First broadcast January 31, 1963

(with Geoffrey Keen, James Villiers, Wilfrid Lawson, Tenniel Evans, Peter Welch, John Bluthal, Moyra Fraser, Sheila Bernette, Pamela Greer, Geraldine Sherman, John Evitts, Basil Beale and Jack Howlett)

Hancock is convinced he has seen a spy.  When he reports it to MI5, they recruit him to keep him quiet but he sees the spy again and phones in to ask MI5 for instructions.

First broadcast February 7, 1963

(with Edward Chapman, Wilfrid Lawson, Gerald Harper, Shaw Taylor, Anthony Sagar, John Rutland, Maureen Pryor and Reginald Green)

Hancock is invited to take part in an edition of This Is Your Life for his old Wing Commander from many years ago. Hancock agrees but the problem is he can’t remember the Wing Commander!

A ticket for this show can be seen here.

First broadcast February 14, 1963

(with John Bluthal as the ‘voice on the radio’)

Hancock books an alarm call for the next morning as he is unable to rely on his alarm clock. and it is essential that he gets up on time. But he then spends the night worrying that he won’t hear the alarm call.

First broadcast February 21, 1963

(with Thomas Heathcote, Glyn Dale, Harry Brunning and Brian Wilde)

Hancock watches a master craftsman teaching DIY techniques on the television but believes that it’s easy and anyone can do it. He puts this theory to the test when an acquaintance asks him to build a wardrobe whilst his wife is away.

First broadcast February 28, 1963

(with Derek Nimmo, Donald Hewlett, Billy Milton, Patsy Smart, Marina Martin, Donald Tandy, Ian Anderson, Pedro Navarro, John Pugh, Leslie Taussig, Eva May Wong and Karen Carina)

Hancock wakes up in the morning with a hangover.  But just who are the crowd of strangers in the room with him?

First broadcast March 7, 1963

(with John Le Mesurier, Nora Nicholson, John Ronane, Diane Clare, Hazel Hughes, Richard Waring, Gareth Robinson, Ronnie Brody, Sheila Raynor, Thomas Kyffin, John Herrington and George Curtis)

Hancock witnesses a street corner speaker and decides to take up oratory himself.

First broadcast March 14, 1963

(with Olaf Pooley, David Lander, Michael Aldridge, Clare Owen, Wilfred Carter, John Kidd and Kendrick Owen)

Hancock starts a new job as a reporter with the local newspaper, but chaos ensues when he reports on a Society wedding.

First broadcast March 21, 1963

(with Francis Matthews, John Junkin, Jean Burgess, Pete Murray, Stuart Saunders and Frikki Alberti)

Hancock meets up with a TV comedian and tells him that he needs to find new writers.  Hancock volunteers but then can’t think of any jokes.

Tony Hancock appeared on the front cover of the TV Times this week.

First broadcast March 28, 1963

(with Reginald Beckwith, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Harry Towb, Arthur Lovegrove, Anthony Dawes, Joy Stewart, April Wilding, Robert Mill, Michael Oxley and Valerie Cooney)

Hancock is employed by an escort agency but he hasn’t bargained for the boisterous Australian millionairess who is his first assignment.