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Hancock on
8 Track

Tony Hancock: The Blood Donor / The Radio Ham' Marble Arch (Precision Tapes Ltd.)
These are the studio remakes, adapted from the original Galton and Simpson BBC-tv scripts, recorded by Pye on 1st. October 1961. Date of issue is unknown.
1973
The Best of Tony Hancock Hallmark / Marble Arch (8 Track)
Monday, 1 January 1973
The next busget release of the 1961 album 'Hancock' featuring the episodes of The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham recorded by Pye was this budget release on the Hallmark . Marble Arch label in 1973. It featured completely new artwork and a rather austere label! Interestingly, the label featured both Hallmark and Marble Arch logos which, bu 1973, were UK subsidiary labels of the American Pickwick International Company.
1974
Golden Hour Of Tony Hancock' Golden Hour (Precision Tapes Ltd.)
Tuesday, 1 January 1974
This cassette like the vinyl LP and audio cassette of the same title
contain recordings of 'The Wild Man of the Woods', 'A Sunday Afternoon At Home' and 'The Secret Life of Tony Hancock' (the ‘Test Pilot' sequence from 'The Diary').
1974
Unique Hancock
Tuesday, 1 January 1974
This cassette contained the same material as the vinyl LP and audiocassette of the same title, i.e. extracts from a number of 'Hancock's Half Hour' radio shows: 'Almost A Gentleman' (opening scene from that show), 'With My Woggle I Thee Worship' (opening scene from 'The Childhood Sweetheart'), 'Like A Dog's Dinner' (opening scene from 'The Grappling Game'), 'Christmas East Cheam Style' (from 'Hancock's Happy Christmas'), 'The Hospital, or Hancock Revisited' (from 'Hancock In Hospital'), 'Michael Hancockelo' (the opening scene from 'Michelangelo ‘Ancock'), 'The Doctor's Dilemma' (from 'The Insurance Policy'), 'P. C. Hancock' Have Feet Will Travel' (two extracts from 'Hancock In The Police', and'Is That Your Car Outside' (from 'Hancock's Car').
1976
Hancock: The Lift / Twelve Angry Men'
Thursday, 1 January 1976
These shows are the soundtracks of the BBC-tv 'Hancock's Half Hour' shows of the same name, with some editing. In the case of 'The Lift', the opening non-dialogue sequence have been omitted and one additional line of explanatory dialogue added: 'Watch that door-buttonOh My God', recorded by Hugh Lloyd on 24th August 1976. For 'Twelve Angry Men', the signature tune, incidental music and a few lines of dialogue have been omitted and some of the pauses shortened.
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