Customer Reviews
Celebrate Xmas in true Hancock style - By: , 30 Nov 2002 
Buy this.
Having heard all of these shows previously on the radio & having just bought the cd version to playin the car. I can only say that if you really want to celebrate this is the way to do it.
Although the plots are somewhat dated the pathos that runs through the shows remains relevant today. Truely masterful performances by Hancock, James, Williams ably supported by Jacques & Kerr.
Sit back, enjoy & maybe cry a little - with laughter of course.
Christmas with Hancock - By: , 20 Oct 2000 The episodes on this tape are - without exception - excellent. Hancock is gloomy, miserly & hilariousin each of them. He saysin one of them "Christmas is going to be just like any other dayin this house - dead miserable", & it's lovely hearing Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques & Sid James having a relatively good time themselves whilst pushing Hancock deeper into the gloom he predicts.
In one episode a mishap leaves him without his Christmas club money (beautifully timed response from the person who gets it), puts up with some insulting orphans, reviews his yearin the realms of fantasy & - the best - tries to make up for breaking Bill Kerr's faithin Santa Claus. They're lovely plots - & it's a surprise Galton & Simpson could come up with such diverse ones each year. Seven series of the radio series I believe they wrote - & yet the later episodes haven't worn thin.
It's a great tape - buy it.
