Sid: Let's hear one of your fan letters, Hancock Tony: Alright, just to satisfy you. "Dear Bighead" Sid: Go on! Tony: No Miss Pugh: Go on, we read ours Tony: It merely says "Dear Big head. I hate you and everybody down our street hates you, why don't you turn it up!"

Tony: Perhaps you would be good enough to explain what you mean by tearing all over the countryside and risking our lives. It's not good enough, its my car, you were only hired to collect it and I demand an explanation! Sid: Shut your cakehole! Tony: Your 'umble servant!

Tony: It's no good, we must get in touch with London. James, have you finished making that radio set? Sid: Yes, I used a corned beef tin, two pieces of wire, a razor blade, a German hearing aid valve, and a torch battery. Tony: Ingenious! Does it work? Sid: No! #HancocksWar

Bill:You finished the fight then? Who won? Sid: Mind your own business Tony: It was a draw Bill: You never touched each other! Tony: We didn't have to. We're two intelligent men, we don't have to resort to violence.... Any more cheek and you'll get a clip round the ear 'ole!

Tony: I've told you, the television set's broken. I've had one ever since it's started, I don't know what to do with myself. Sid: Your set's broken down and you don't know what to do with yourself? Why don't you read a book? Tony: I sold all the books to get a television!

Remembering Alan Simpson OBE, who passed away #OTD 8 February 2017. With Ray Galton he wrote over 160 Hancock radio and tv scripts and Hancock's first major film, The Rebel. A great friend of the society, he always made time for fans. A true gentleman.

Taķe the case of Doubting Thomas who was sent to Coventry for looking through a keyhole at Lady Godiva. Can anybody prove he was looking at her? Can anybody prove it was he who shouted out "Get your hair cut"? Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?

Tony: It says 'ere the Mayfair Charm School for Men guarantees that I'll be knocking around with starlets and models within a fortnight Charm School manager: Oh yes, sir. Our course guarantees to transform lifelong wall flowers into rare and beautiful orchids.... #Masterclass

Sid: What sort of television set are you looking for? Tony: Could you get me one like Jimmy Edwards has got? Sid: Certainly! Where does he live?

Sid: Well, first time in, I didn't know the jargon you see, so she comes up to me says "Would you like a cuppuccino?" I said, "I don't fancy the chino but I'll have a cuppa tea! #FredsPieStall

Tony: Oh, this is the only life. I realise I'll have to live on acorns and berries, that's enough, that's all you need. Nine meals a day is just a habit you get into! #TheWildManOfTheWoods

Tony: This is a cultural evening, we're having no bounce-ups in here Greta: Oh, for goodness sake, be quiet. All this quarrelling is interfering with my perceptive aura. Tony: You see, you've upset Greta now, her perceptive aura has gone for a burton! #ThePoetrySociety

Lovely afternoon at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith watching some Hancock classics with my Dad who introduced me to the lad himself’s work when I was just 5 years old many moons ago.

Tony: Now look Sid, let's get our business methods sorted out. I want no part in any skullduggery, sharp practice, or footpaddery. I want an honest, straightforward, legitimate 20,000 acre farm for 50 quid! #AgriculturalAncock

"So I went down and I see this geezer, I said what's going on down there then mate? " Looking forward to an afternoon of Hancock with Q&A tomorrow (Sat 31st) at London's Riverside Studios at 2pm. Includes Hancock's solo masterpiece, The Bedsitter. Join us! Booking link in replies

Every time I travel by train I get mixed up with the most ugly looking lot of geezers you've ever seen. I think they are special people, you never see them anywhere but on trains. There's no more dismal sight in the world than a trainload of Englishmen hurtling through the rain!

"Time is the most precious commodity at our disposal. To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self. ........I wonder what's on TV?" The Bedsitter, one of a triple bill of Hancock at London's Riverside Studios on Sat 31 Jan at 2pm with Q&A. Join us at this great venue!

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Tony: Well, I don't know, but this is most odd. Certainly not like the Sid I know. I wonder what's happened Bill: Perhaps he's got a letter from his granny, you know, they always affect him that way Tony: No, no, no, couldn't be that. She's not out yet! #CyranoDeHancock

Oh dear Oh dear, oh dear Ah dear me Stone me what a life! What's the time Two o' clock Is that all? Oh dear, oh dear Ah dear me I dunno Oh, I'm fed up! #SundayAfternoonAtHome

Dr: Where are you going? Tony: To have my tea and biscuits! Dr: I thought you came here to give some of your blood? Tony: You've just 'ad it! Dr: This is just a smear! Tony: It may be just a smear to you, mate, but it's life and death to some poor wretch! #TheBloodDonor

"What's this? Joshua falls into the threshing machine?" #TheBowmans #TheArchers

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Tony: Get your feet off me plastic mac Bill: You shouldn't have it so long Tony: I like it long, do you mind? What's the point in having a plastic mac if your turnups get wet. If your gonna have a mac, have a big 'un!

What a marvelous programme the #Archers is. That Walter Gabriel, he's a card isn't he. Ooh ar me ol pal, me ol beauty!  Amongst all that rustic jolity and larking about lurks pearls of wisdom. What was it he said tonight? Flowers is alright, he said, but it's taters as feeds yer!

Tony: I said to J Arthur - Ranky, I said - cos I call him that - intimate friends. I said, I don't care if you can get Marilyn Munroe to star in the film with me, I'm not doing it. I don't want the part I said. I'm not stripping off and bashing that gong for anybody!

Tony: Hello, hello, there goes Mrs Biggs. There she goes, look, up to the old Hand and Racquet. She'll be there til chucking out time. "I'll have a small treble gin please, dear". I got caught one year, I'll never ask 'er again! #TheElopement

Tony: 'ere, I know what I wanted to ask you, whatever happened to that ATS girl you were knocking about with?The one with the big 'ooter, you know, the one you used to take out for a bet, she'd got great big feet, ooh she was a shocker! Clarence: I married her! #TheReunionParty

Kenneth: I went all through the Battle of Britain, throwing my Spitfire all over the place. Looping the loop, diving, chasing planes, firing bullets at 'em, all through the summer of 1948 Tony: The Battle of Britain was in 1940! Kenneth: Ooh, makes me look a bit of a fool then!

"Can I have another drink, I'm as dry as an old boot?" The New Nose, one of a triple bill of Hancock we'll be introducing at @RiversideLondon on Saturday 31 January at 2pm. Join us for an afternoon of Hancock on the big cinema screen with Q&A! See replies for link to booking

Celebrating Warren Mitchell on his centenary, born #OTD 14 January 1926. Relatively unknown when he appeared in a TV episode of Hancock's Half Hour, Hancock invited him back for five more. Also appeared in six radio episodes, including as Gwegory in The Poetry Society

Dora: Gather me up in your big strong arms & gallop off into the night with me, across the sands to your tent in the desert, throw me down on the cushions & rain your kisses down upon my eager inviting lips as I surrender my very soul to you Tony: Are you playing hard to get?

When we record our next Hancock podcast we'll be joined by sound engineer extraordiare Ted Kendall! Ted has discovered and restored lost audios, including from Hancock's Half Hour. If you have a question we can put to Ted, let us know! More info in replies #VeryNearlyAnArmful

Would you stop playing with that radio, talking to those silly people all over the place This is an emergency, there's a man with a hole in his boat Well, he shouldn't be out in a boat at this time of night! It's not this time of night where he is, it's yesterday afternoon!

Advanced a lot, medical science. I was glad to see the back of those leeches. That was the turning point, look at things they can do these days. New blood, plastic bones, false teeth, glasses, wigs. There are some people walking round with hardly anything they started out with!

It's a waste of time me reading, I can't remember anything. I've got too much on my mind, you see. Nuclear warfare. Future of mankind. China. Spurs. Yes, it's hard graft for we intellectuals these days! Never mind, let's have a quick go at Bertrand Russell...

Kenneth: What about coming to the pictures? PC Hancock (disguised as woman): You're making a big mistake! Things aren't what they seem. Go and find somebody else Kenneth: No, I want youuuuuuu! I like 'em with a bit of meat on 'em!

Sid: I'll clean up! A plate of fish & chips, bread & butter, and a pickled onion, four and a tanner. It could be a household name in Cheam - El Fish and Chippo. Whoever comes into this with me is going to make a fortune and I'm giving you first refusal Tony: Alright, I refuse!

Tony: Have another jam sandwich Hermione (Patricia Hayes): No thanks Tony: You've only had one. We've got another 120 in the car Hermione: I don't want any more. I thought we'd have chicken and salmon and things like that Tony: Chicken? At 3/6d a wing? #ThePicnic

Kenneth: It gets a bit boring sitting in there on a Sunday afternoon, there's nothing much to do , is there? And Rosita said, don't sit there by yourself Clark, go in and see Mr Hancock and have a chat with him. I know its always so lively in your house Tony: Oh yes, madly gay!

Nurse: Needles don't bother you then? Tony: Me? No. I've had too many of them, my dear. I've 'ad the lot. I've got arms like pin cushions. Yes, I reckon I've 'ad a syringeful of everything that's going in my time. Needles the size of drainpipes some of 'em! #TheBloodDonor

We are thrilled to be going back to London's Riverside Studios on Saturday 31 Jan at 2pm for a Hancock triple bill with Q&A! We'll introduce The New Nose from 1959, The Bedsitter from 1961 and The Man on the Corner from the 1963 ATV series Hancock. Join us! Link in replies

Kenneth (vicar): Now look here, we really ought to put something round it to take the blast if it goes off Miss Pugh: Coo-ee, the treacle pudding's ready Tony: There you are, put that round it. A hydrogen bomb wouldn't get through her treacle pudding! #TheUnexplodedBomb

Happy new year!

Tony: I want 10 crates of Winter Brew, five crates of best brown, 12 quarts of Dragon's Breath, two barrels of bitter, two crates of Danish lager and a barrel of rough cider Harry: Cor blimey, are you gonna have a party? Tony: No, me grandmother's coming round! #NewYearsEve

Still I get no recognition, not a nibble. Any little knick knack would have done. A couple of garters and a bath. I'm not fussy. It would have been very nice. It would have added a little bit of prestige to the TV show. Sir Anthony Hancock's Half Hour! #NewYearsHonours

Bill: Stop moaning, its your pride, thats all. Its been nagging away ever since you found out I was an OBE. Tony: OBE? Bill: Yeah, Order of the British Empire. Tony: Bill, you were ordered OUT of the British empire! #NewYearsHonours

Remembering Dame June Whitfield, whom we lost #OTD 29 December 2018. A great friend of Hancock, she appeared in The Tony Hancock Show on AR-TV in 1956, Hancock's Half Hour and Hancock for BBC, and his final UK TV series, Hancock's, on ITV in 1967. She was absolutely fabulous.

Sid: What a misery you are, a right drag. Why don't you go for a walk? Tony: Too cold Sid: Wear the scarf I gave you Tony: I don't like it Sid: Go to the pub then Tony: It's too late Sid: Go to bed Tony: It's too early!