Customer Reviews
Worth buying for new material - By: Enoch Sneed, 13 Dec 2006 
These 'best' episodes have previously been available on LP record & cassette. These new CD's contain material which was edited out of the original releases - particularly from "Sid's Mystery Tours" & "Sunday Afternoon at Home", while "Wild Man of Woods" includes a lovely verbal slip from Bill Kerr. So if you think you know these episodes, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised to find new lines, & new laughs.
A tour de force ! - By: , 12 Feb 2006 what else can you say ? Tony Hancock was a genius for his impeccable timing, the cast including Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Sid James & Hattie Jacques were sublime & the scripts are so well written. This is classic Hancock's Half Hour without the intrusion of later commercial interests.
If you like Hancock buy this !
The Very Best Indeed - By: , 13 Jan 2006 Thank heavens! I was about to spend a small fortune on the complete radio series, just so that I could listen to perhaps a dozen episodes, but this has turned up. It really does contain the best of the radio series, & I hope that vols 2 & 3 complete the dozen episodes I'm most after. The writing is inspired craziness (spot the origins of Monty Python's dead-parrot sketch, for instance) that becomes lyrical at times, & the cast is terrific. The four episodes on this CD were previously available as cassettes, butin a shortened form. Here they are complete & very welcome. This is a superb introduction to Hancock's radio humour. If you don't like these, you probably won't like any of his other work. Only one warning: it'll help to know (or to quickly guess) the meaning of dated slang from the mid-50s. Not necessarily a big problem, but one to be aware of.
Good but could be better. - By: G. R. J. Scott, 02 Jan 2006 
This collection may be the writers favorite episodes but only the first Sid's mystery tour is really funny. If you are expecting classic Hancock like the blood donor than you arein for a disappointment.
