COMEDY INTERLUDE—Tony Hancock: “The Blood Donor”

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Published on Jun 14, 2012
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This is one of comedy’s all time classics. Tony Hancock was a deservedly famous British comic during the postwar. Embodying the working-class everyman, a sort of very English Cantinflas, Hancock mined humor out of fears, phobias and pretensions common to the human condition, and peculiar to the idiosyncrasies of British culture. The “Blood Donor” is a peerless look at the fibrillations of a hypochondriac wrestling with his desire to be seen as a hero.  

Hancock’s Half Hour was a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.

“The Blood Donor” is an episode from comedy series Hancock, the final BBC series featuring British comedian Tony Hancock. First transmitted on 23 June 1961, the show was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and was produced by Duncan Wood. Supporting Hancock were Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, Frank Thornton and June Whitfield. It remains one of the best known situation comedy episodes ever broadcast in the United Kingdom.

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