Tony Hancock Appreciation Society

Tony: For a man who's so shrewd in business matters, you’re a right mug the minute you walk into a clothes shop. They see you coming. Nylon socks, two-tone French winkle pickers. Frank Sinatra hats, what a mess you look. Sid: I think I look rather sharp! #TheLastBusHome

Tony: The only person who could have done these murders is the man sitting over there, so saying Johnny Oxford pointed at...........men are you skinny! #TheMissingPage

I shall answer any charge in person. I am willing to defend my civil liberties, whatever you try to do to me. I am not frightened. Use your rubber hoses! And your lights in the face. And all smoking while I haven't got one, see if I care! #HancocksCar

I wonder what's on the headphones. Oh, #WomansHour! How madly interesting! Lady Pamela Pilkington is going to tell all us ladies how to organise an embassy ball. Swipe me how glittering! Must be 5 million housewives around Stoke on Trent who wanna know how to throw embassy balls!

Hugh: I'm just the same as you lot, if you prick me, do I not bleed? If you tickle me, do I not laugh? If you poison me, do I not die? Tony: I suppose you do really, I hadn't thought about it Sid: Punch him in the fag-hole, see what he does then! #TheFootballPools

Radio voice: Flying doctor calling Wollumboola base. I'm on my way Mrs Fraser, just wrap him up and don't move him. Tony: That's good isn't It, short wave 11.5 metres. I must call him up one night and have a chat about my back ache! #TheRadioHam

Tony: I must find the last page Sid: Show me the book. There you are Tony: What? Sid: See that ragged edge along there? Somebody's torn it out Tony: Torn it out? Sid: Yeah, they probably lit a fag with it or something!

Sid: Now, where do you want this farm? Tony: Oh I dunno, I thought some place in the country somewhere Sid: It's just as well, there's not many left in town at the moment!

We're back tomorrow (Saturday) with an interview special of the official Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful. Our guest is audio restorer Ted Kendall who has done so much to bring us the Hancock's Half Hours radio shows we enjoy. We asked Ted what was his favourite HHH....

Coming soon, an interview special of the Tony Hancock podcast, Very Nearly An Armful. We meet Ted Kendall, sound restorer who was instrumental in the production of the original box sets of the radio Hancock’s Half Hour. Plus the latest Hancock news, Tweets and emails.

Looking forward to be back at Bognor for this fab festival in September. Also the unofficial home of Mr Punch where Tony Hancock filmed The Punch and Judy Man in 1962. #punchandjudy #Bognorregis #tonyhancock #puppet

@DanHanton Hi Daniel, yes, I'm hoping to be there. We have pinched your poster for The Bonus Pages!

@TonyHancockAS hopefully you will be there too this year.

Landlady: I don't know why you want to keep going in and out for anyway Tony: I don't keep going in and out. I came home, I went out, now I've come in again. I don't call that keep going in and out! You saw me go out, you must have expected me to come in again! #TheRadioHam

“Mis-tah Chris-tian, bring me some Harper’s or I’ll have you strung up from the highest yardarm of the British navy…” The final radio show episode of #HancocksHalfHour tomorrow on @BBCRadio4Extra, originally broadcast on 29/12/1959 ‘The Impersonator’ with guest Peter Goodwright.

Now, look chum. Everybody to his own trade, I grant you, but if I've got 8 pints I need 8 pints, not 7, as I will have by the time you've finished with me. No, no, I'm sorry, I've been misinformed. I've made a mistake. I'll do something else. I think I'll be a traffic warden...

Remembering the wonderful Dick Emery, born #OTD 19 February 1915. Great mates with Hancock, they helped each other out when struggling to get on the ladder to success in the post war years. Beautiful fluffed line in this clip as Emery plays a postman in Hancock's Half Hour.

#OTD 40 years ago @TimeOutLondon issue 809 hit the newsstands. It was a magazine that I bought every week & was thrilled to see the lad himself, #TonyHancock on the front cover, with the headline ‘Why this man is still Britain’s greatest comedian’. Super article by Steve Grant.

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!"

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?