BBC TV Series 3

First Broadcast September 30, 1957

(with Anton Diffring, Tutte Lemkow, Peter Allenby, George Elliott, Mario Fabrizi, Edouard Assaly, Peter Elliott, Alec Bregonzi, Anthony Shirvell, Bruce Wightman, David Grahame, Arthur Bennett, Eugenie Sivyer, Leslie Smith, Richard Statman, Manville Tarrant and Thomas Symonds)

Hancock has been on holiday abroad and he tells Sid of his exploits in which he foiled an international gang of smugglers.

First broadcast October 7, 1957

(with John Vere, Peggy Ann Clifford, Cameron Hall, Eveyn Lund, Graham Leaman, Terence Alexander, Paddy Edwards, Tottie Trueman Taylor, Pat Coombs, Gordon Philpott, Manville Tarrant, Anne Reid, James Bulloch, Patrick Milner, Peter Emms, Basil Beale and John Vyvyan)

Hancock dreams of becoming the great detective ‘Sexton Hancock’ and proceeds to unravel a complicated murder plot.

First broadcast October 14, 1957

(with Bill Fraser, John Vere, Evelyn Lund, Rose Howlett, Elizabeth Gott, Peggy Ann Clifford, Claude Bonser, Manville Tarrant, Con Courtney, Leslie Smith, Patrick Milner, Bruce Wightman, Richard Statman, Alan Simpson, Alec Bregonzi, Dick Emery, John Vyvyan, Thomas Symonds, Anthony Shirvell, Ray Grover, Anthony Wiles, Pat Warren and Iris Eve)

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!

First broadcast October 21, 1957

(with Raymond Huntley, Iain Macnaughton, Richard Statman, Anne Marryott, Eileen Delamare, Manville Tarrant, John Vyvyan, George Crowther and Charles Julian)

Hancock is told by the doctor he must get fit.  But when he takes an unwilling Sid on  a hunting holiday to Scotland, they get snowed in.

First broadcast October 28, 1957

(with Leslie Smith, Richard Statman, Philip Carr, Stuart Hillier, Anne Marryott, John Vere, Peter Allenby, John Vyvyan, Basil Beale , Bill Fraser James Bulloch, Manville Tarrant, Dave Freeman and Alec Bregonzi)

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 offices looking for a bank robber, Hancock’s first landing doesn’t go quite as expected!

First broadcast November 4, 1957

(with Campbell Singer, Claude Bonser, Alec Bregonzi,, Con Courtney,, Bruce Wightman,, Manville Tarrant, John Vyvyan, Terence Alexander,, Graham Leaman, Guy Middleton, Stuart Hillier, Cameron Hall, John Vere, Raymond Rollett, Peter Allenby, George Crowther, Arthur Mullard, Harry Robbins and Harry Lane)

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!

First broadcast November 11, 1957

(with Anne Marryott, Ian Fleming, Pamela Manson, John Vere, Patrick Milner, Anne Reid,, Stuart Hillier, Hugh Lloyd, Mario Fabrizi, John Vyvyan and Manville Tarrant)

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 can’t get rid of them!

First broadcast November 25, 1957

(with Jack Hawkins, John Vere, Nora Nicholson, Mary Reynolds, Stuart Hillier and John Vyvyan)

Famous actor Jack Hawkins takes elocution lessons with Hancock and is reduced to being the leader of a rock ‘n’ roll group.

First broadcast December 2, 1957

(with John Le Mesurier, Arthur Mullard, Raymond Rollett, John Vere, Hugh Lloyd, Claude Bonser, Bill Fraser, John Vyvyan, Anthony Shirvell, Manville Tarrant, Patrick Milner, Alec Bregonzi,, Richard Sullivan, Roger Ostime, Anne Marryot and John Foster)

Hancock becomes a lawyer but when he defends an obviously guilty Sid James in court he finds himself the subject of a guilty verdict!

First broadcast December 9, 1957

(with John Vyvyan, Dick Emery,, Campbell Singer, John Vere, Bruce Wightman, Basil Beale , Alec Bregonzi, Phillip Carr, Leslie Smith, Anthony Shirvell, Mario Fabrizi, Burt Kwouk, Nelson Grostate, Jimmy Rapael, Manville Tarrant and Hugh Lloyd)

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.

First broadcast December 16, 1957

(with John Vere, Dick Emery,, Esther MacPherson, Cameron Hall, Nancy Roberts, Gordon Philpott, Paddy Edwards, Leslie Smith, Claude Bonser, Vera Elmore, Anne Reid,, Brenda Duncan, Elizabeth Gott, Alec Bregonzi Evelyn Lund and John Vyvyan)

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 difficulty, 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!

First broadcast November 23, 1957

(with John Gregson, Max Geldray, Alf Silvestri,The Glamazons and The Keynotes)

A complete departure from the usual show.  Hancock presents his own variety show from the Television Theatre but he has asked Sid to provide all the acts!