He made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films.

Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with Tony Hancock in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ( but having the invented middle name Balmoral ), who was a petty criminal who would usually manage to con Hancock.

His Sidney Balmoral James from Hancock's Half Hour also appeared in his own Citizen James series.

Main Wilson was casting Hancock's Half Hour, a radio series starring Tony Hancock.

* Hancock's Half Hour

His first broadcast was as a regular on the radio show Educating Archie, and this led to appearances on Hancock's Half Hour.

The first British sitcom was Pinwright's Progress, broadcast by the BBC from 1946 to 1947, but the form didn't really take off until the transfer of Hancock's Half Hour from BBC radio in 1956.

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

He frequently interrupted the proceedings with deprecating comments about the quality of the script ( often switching out of character into his " snide " voice that he'd perfected during his time on Hancock's Half Hour ), he would try to seize roles from other cast members and so on.

The series has been issued as a series of CD box sets ( in the same format as the Hancock's Half Hour radio series ), restoring cut material previously believed lost.

It was on one of his return visits to the UK in 1968 that he also brought back the late Tony Hancock's ashes to the UK in an Air France bag-“ My session with the Customs was a Hancock Half Hour in itself.

There are many gaps in many long running BBC series ( Dixon of Dock Green, Hancock's Half Hour, Sykes, Out of the Unknown, and Z-Cars ).

At the same time, the BBC was also running Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock, the first of a new generation of comedies based on believable characters and situations.

Following the success of Hancock's Half Hour, the sitcom became firmly entrenched in the television schedules.

In most series of the comedy show Hancock's Half Hour, Tony Hancock lived in the fictional road Railway Cuttings, in fictional East Cheam.

* Hancock's Half Hour-Sid James claims Hereward stayed at Hancock's house as a ploy to get the house renovated by the National Trust.

* Hancock's Half Time

* Hancock's Half Hour, a British radio and TV comedy programme, eventually shortened to Hancock

He also appeared in Tony Hancock's two principal film vehicles The Rebel ( 1961 ) and The Punch and Judy Man ( 1963 ), and many episodes of Hancock's television series Hancock's Half Hour.

Hancock left Educating Archie in 1954 to work on his own radio show — Hancock's Half Hour, but still kept up his friendship with Le Mesurier, whilst Jacques joined the cast of the show in 1956, for the fourth series.

Le Mesurier's friendship with Tony Hancock provided a further source of work when Hancock asked him to be one of the serial supporting actors in Hancock's Half Hour, once it moved from radio to television.

* Hancock's Half Hour ( 1954 – 1960 ): Influential comedy series which transferred to television.

* Hancock's Half Hour ( 1956 – 1962 ).

A few years later he joined the Royal Court Theatre company and was the foil to Tony Hancock in some of Hancock's last work for British television.

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

The comedy actor Sidney James, as he was then billed, played Sid, a criminally-inclined confidant of Hancock, who usually succeeded in conning him each week ; Bill Kerr appeared as Hancock's Australian lodger, a character who became noticeably dim-witted in the later shows.

Sackler later felt betrayed when Dorothy Tristan, Hancock's wife, was invited to rewrite his script.

He later went on to enjoy widespread fame in many comedy roles including Hancock's Half Hour ( 1956 – 60 ), the Carry On series of films and sitcoms such as George and the Dragon ( 1966 ) Two In Clover ( 1969 – 70 ) and Bless This House ( 1971 – 76 ).

The James Taylor Quartet's first single, " Blow-Up " ( a funked up version of Herbie Hancock's main theme from the seminal 1960s film of the same name ), was released in 1987 on the Re Elect The President label, which would later become the Acid Jazz label.

Rinehart would later claim that Hancock's bride had paid little attention to his worsening health, but had instead " screeched at him for money ".

" Little One " might be best known for being revisited on Hancock's landmark album, Maiden Voyage, recorded a few weeks later.

Hancock's career had declined since his ill-advised 1961 split with longtime writing team Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ( a move Hancock himself had later described as " professional suicide ").

He was also, in storyline, hinted as the alleged father of Hancock's baby, which later turned out to be a stack of 8x10 cameras in a stroller.

initial claims regarding the alignment of the Giza pyramids with Orion ("… the three pyramids were a terrestrial map of the three stars of Orion's belt "— Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods, 1995, p. 375 ) are later joined with speculation about the age of the Great Sphinx ( Hancock and Bauval, Keeper of Genesis, published 1996, and in 1997 in the U. S. as The Message of the Sphinx ).

The name of the original Santa Maria Airport and Hancock's name then transferred to the other, now public airport in town.

He appeared as himself in the 1960 TV Hancock's Half Hour episode, ' The East Cheam Centenary ', where he commentates on the street ' procession ', from Hancock's bedroom at 23 Railway Cuttings.

In 1992 " Hancock: The Australian TV Series in Colour " was released, compiled from the three or so episodes of the 1968 Australian series completed before Hancock's death.

The Rebel attempts to transfer Hancock's TV comedy persona to the big screen, and several of his regular supporting cast also appeared, including John Le Mesurier, Liz Fraser and Mario Fabrizi.

It was not until Herbie Hancock's " Rockit " in 1983 that the turntablism movement was recognized in popular music outside of a hip hop context.

Hancock's boat was seized after he had unloaded a cargo of 25 pipes ( 3, 150 gallons ) of Madeira, and a dispute arose over import duties.

Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men.

Alexander called the removal of Longstreet the critical juncture of the battle: " I have always believed that, but for Longstreet's fall, the panic which was fairly underway in Hancock's Corps would have been extended & have resulted in Grant's being forced to retreat back across the Rapidan.

The route into London was plied by Walter Hancock's steam coaches for a period during the 1830s.

She was famous for being Mr. Hancock's daughter.

Also included on the record was a cover version of Herbie Hancock's " Maiden Voyage ," featuring the voice / guitar soloing of Georg Wadenius.

Hancock's progress at West Point was average.

The region was quiet at the time, and Hancock's time there was uneventful.

Hancock's young family accompanied him to his new posting, where Allie Hancock was the only woman on the post.

Davis also proved to be an able talent-spotter ; much of 1970s fusion was performed by bands started by alumni from Davis ' ensembles, including The Tony Williams Lifetime, Weather Report, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, and Herbie Hancock's funk-infused Headhunters band.

This then relatively novel format, of what was in effect a single sketch each week lasting the entire half-hour ( though in the radio version James and the others sometimes played different roles ), was reflected in the show's title, which aptly described the series as Hancock's " half-hour ".