The Best Of Tony Hancock
featuring Clive Dunn

Originally Released Pye Records, 1961.
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Reissue: Marble Arch,1968
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Budget Reissue: Pickwick HMA228 - DELETED

CD Release: Pulse PLS219

The cover of the Marble Arch 1968 Reissue of The Blood Donor and The Radio Ham.

Album scan provided by David Noades

Side One
The Blood Donor
starring Tony Hancock with June Whitfield, Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, John Bluthal, Frank Thornton and Annie Leake.

Side Two
The Radio Ham
starring Tony Hancock with Patrick Cargill, Clive Dunn, Deryck Guyler, June Whitfield, John Bluthal, Frank Thornton, Annie Leake, Hugh Lloyd

Recorded before an invited audience on the 1st October 1961


Pickwick Records LP Reissue


Pulse CD Release

In 1961, Comedian Tony Hancock made what was to be his final BBCTV series with writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Amongst the guest artistes to appear alongside Hancock in this series were future Dad's Army stars Clive Dunn and John Le Mesurier (although not in the same episodes).

Clive Dunn appeared as a policeman in the episode "The Radio Ham" who comes to Hancock's aid with a valve for his radio set, when attempting to respond to an S.O.S. call.

On the 1st October 1961, many of the original cast for "The Radio Ham" (including Clive Dunn) and "The Blood Donor" reassembled in a recording studio and recorded, what has become Hancock's most often released and best selling Long Play.

In 1997, Castle Communications released the album on Compact Disc in a digitally remastered format. The album remains an essential purchase for any true fan of British Comedy.

Andy Howells

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