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{{Infobox television
| name = The Tony Hancock Show
| image =
| caption =
| genre = [[Sketch comedy|Sketch show]]
| camera =
| runtime = 30 minutes
| creator =
| starring = {{plainlist|
* [[Tony Hancock]]
* [[June Whitfield]]
* John Vere
* [[Clive Dunn]]
* [[Dick Emery]]
* [[Sam Kydd]]
* [[Hattie Jacques]]
* [[Eric Sykes]]
}}
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| network = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]
| producer = [[Associated-Rediffusion]]
| first_aired = {{start date|1956|4|27|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1957|1|25|df=y}}
| num_series = 2
| num_episodes = 12
}}

'''''The Tony Hancock Show''''' is a [[black-and-white]] [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Sketch comedy|sketch show]] starring [[Tony Hancock]] and was broadcast on [[ITV (network)|ITV]] by the franchise contractor [[Associated-Rediffusion]] for two series in 1956 and 1957, either side of the first television series of ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]''. It was written by [[Eric Sykes]], [[Larry Stephens (scriptwriter)|Larry Stephens]], John Jose and (for the few last episodes) [[Galton and Simpson|Ray Galton and Alan Simpson]].<ref name="BBC Comedy">{{cite news|title=Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy|first=Mark|last=Lewisohn|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=2003}}</ref> All the episodes were broadcast live.

==Cast==
*[[Tony Hancock]]
*[[June Whitfield]]
*John Vere
*[[Clive Dunn]]
*[[Dick Emery]]
*[[Sam Kydd]]
*[[Hattie Jacques]]
*[[Eric Sykes]]
*[[Sid James]]

==Episodes==
===Series One (1956)===
#Episode One (27 April 1956)
#Episode Two (4 May 1956)
#Episode Three (11 May 1956)
#Episode Four (18 May 1956)
#Episode Five (25 May 1956)
#Episode Six (1 June 1956)

===Series Two (1956–57)===
#"Hancock - The Man of the Moment" (16 November 1956)
#"Honneur Et Fidelité" (30 November 1956)
#"The Further Adventures of Hancock" (14 December 1956)
#"Weather or Not" (28 December 1956)
#"Napoleon and Josephine" (11 January 1957)
#"The Odd Job Man" (25 January 1957)

==Missing episodes==
No episodes of the second series are thought to have survived.<ref name="Missing">{{cite news|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/tony.htm |title=The Tony Hancock Show A-R, 1956 |publisher=The British TV Missing Episodes Index |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208233919/http://www.btinternet.com/~m.brown1/tony.htm |archive-date=December 8, 2007 }}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0260659}}

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[[Category:1956 British television series debuts]]
[[Category:1957 British television series endings]]
[[Category:1950s British television sketch shows]]
[[Category:ITV comedy]]
[[Category:Lost television shows]]
[[Category:ITV sketch shows]]

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