This video was issued free with Benson and Hedges cigarettes. Featured artists include Tommy Cooper, Max Wall, Tony Hancock and Peter Sellers.

This video was issued free with The People and includes an extract from The Train Journey. Also inlcuded are extracts from Only Fools and Horses, Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers and eight others.

This video features extracts from The Punch and Judy Man.

This video fetures extracts from Tony's film, The Rebel.

with the Rebel

with The Punch and Judy Man

This was the Australian release of To See Such Fun from 1981. We do not currently have an image of this release. Please let our archivst know if you have a copy.

Released at the sames time as the previous six BBC volumes were deleted, this release contains the following episodes: The Bedsitter, The Bowmans, The Radio Ham, The Lift and The Blood Donor. In other words, all of the final series entitled Hancock except the final episode (Son and Heir) which was never to receive a video release. All of these episodes had previously been released in Volumes 1-6. By the time of this BBC release, the Betamax format had disappeared and so this was the first Hancock BBC release to just appear on VHS.

This video was a re-release of Hancock's Last Hour (and a Quarter) and features Tony's last TV appearance in Australia.

This release was only available for bour 18 months and is now quite difficult to track down. In common with th earlier BBC releases, this video contained three episodes as follows: How to Win Money an Influence People, Air Steward Hancock and The Alpine Holiday. All of these episodes were previously unreleased. The front cover style was iindividual to this release.

This video was a tribute to Sid James and was part of the British Comedy Legends series. Featuring extracts from George and The Dragan, Bless This House and, of course, the Carry On films, the release would not have been complete without extracts from Hancock's Half Hour. The shows featured were: The New Var, Sid in Love, The Cold and Twelve Angry Men.

This video was also part of the British Comedy Legends series. Featuring extracts from Rambling Syd Rumpo, Julian and Sandy and the Carry On films, the release also features extracts from Kenneth's only surviving appearance in the television Hancokc's Half Hour: The Alpine Holiday.

USA NTSC format laser disc

This release contained the epiosdes: The Cruise, The Tycoon and The Babysitter, all previously unreleased. The front cover was of a new styling that was to be repeated with subsequent releases.

This release contained the episodes The Emigrant, The Big Night and The Poison Pen Letters and was effectively a re-release of Volume 6 (BBCV4050). The front cover style was similar to the other BBC release in 1997. Although this was the second volume in the new series, no volume number was used.

The final BBC video release of complete episodes was a revised version of the previously released The Very Best of Hancock. It was part of a series called Comedy Greats which featured other artists such as Morecambe and Wise and Ronnie Barker. This release featured the following episodes: The Bedsitter, The Bowmans, The Radio Ham, The Lift and The Blood Donor. The box for this release was not the usual plastic video box but, instead, was in a white cardboard box and was accompanied by 6 photo postcards.

This final release in the new series broke with tradition and featured four episodes rather than the usual three. The episodes featured were: The Train Journey, The Photographer, Sid in Love and The Ladies Man. At the end of these releases some 27 of the surviving 37 Hancock's Half Hour episodes had been made commercially available. It would not be until the advent of the DVD that the complete archive would be released. The following episodes never received a video release: There's an Airfield at the Bottom of the Garden, Hancock's 43 Minutes, Erikson the Viking, The Set That Failed, The Oak Tree, The Knighthood, Spanish Interlude, The Football Pools, The East Cheam Centenary and Son and Heir.

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

This release was also available on DVD and featured 43 extracts from a variety of BBC comedy programmes. The release featured three Hancock sequences, all from the Very Best of Hancock (released on DVD in 2001) and the Comedy Greats video detailed above. The sequences were as follows: i) 'A Pint': this is a two minute extraxt from The Blood Donor, where Hancock wants his tea and biscuits after giving his drop of blood; ii) 'Bedsits and Bertrand': This is a two and a half minute extract from The Bedsitter and features the sequence where Hanock decides to read Bertrand Russell but keeps referring to his dictionary; iii) 'A Ham on the Radio': This three minute sequence is not from The Radio Ham but from The Bowmans and features the delightful Joshua acting out his death scene. This superb DVD release served as an introduction to many archive BBC programmes, some of which had not been commercially released elsewhere.