The case against our friend Sid looks open and shut - 224 witnesses saw him chuck a brick through the jeweller's window. Hancock, the world's worst lawyer, delivers a brilliant defence. It's the only case the hapless advocate has ever won, but the scales of justice tip against Hancock in the end.
Sid James. John Le Mesurier. Hugh Lloyd.

A girl laughs at Hancock's nose and a neurotic obsession sets in - the hideous hooter syndrome. He cannot face life anymore, unless something can be done for his problem proboscis. Hancock resorts to some plastic surgery but when the bandages come off...
Sid James. John Le Mesurier as the surgeon. Arthur Mullard. Liz Fraser.

Sid forgets the pre-holiday domestic cancellations. So there are crates of milk bottles on the doorstep; a bale of papers on the mat; a rock-hard mountain of farmhouse loaves at the back door and a red-hot television set that's been left on for three months. It's cut-back time but false economies can prove disastrous.
Patricia Hayes. Liz Fraser. Sid James.

The miser thwarts the would-be entrepreneur: Hancock refuses to give Sid a loan to turn "Mabel's Fish and Chip Parlour" into "El Fish and Chippo". But would Sid resort to murdering Hancock for his life-savings? Would Hancock really batter his best friend for a fish and chip shop?
Sid James. Patricia Hayes. Hugh Lloyd. Arthur Mullard.

The discovery of Lord Byron's 'odes' scribbled beneath the peeling wallpaper at 23 Railway Cuttings enables Hancock to open his house as a stately home. There's a small fortune to be made from rich American tourists hoping to snap up the great poet's actual typewriter and shaving mug.
Sid James. Hugh Lloyd. John Le Mesurier.
Read some of Lord Byron's odes.

Justice takes a back seat when Sid discovers that jury members who cannot reach agreement get paid 30 bob a day during their deliberations. Hancock is the eloquent foreman, haranguing the good men and true with tear-jerking protestations of the accused's innocence.
Sid James. Hugh Lloyd. Mario Fabrizi.

Sid has got Hancock a booking to play Henry V ... in Giggleswick. Travelling by train, their fellow passengers do not welcome their attempts to jolly things along with a game of "I Spy" and a "bit-of-a-sing-a-long".

The boys are on a Mediterranean cruise on account of Sid's theory that women go berserk on a boat, though after two thousand miles there's still no sign of any interest being shown in either of them. Maybe it's something to do with Hancock's insistence on wearing his winter overcoat, as "October's October, wherever you are!"

Despite the malevolent presence of Mrs. Cravatte at the breakfast table, Hancock and Sid are in high spirits. For this is the weekend and Saturday-night fever is in the air. The East Cheam birds had better watch out, but Hancock's glad rags prove to be sadly inadequate.
Sid James. Patricia Hayes. Sam Kydd. Hugh Lloyd. Michael Balfour.

Hancock's stock investments in St Petersburg County Council and The Loch Ness Whale Farm have all proved disastrous, leaving him 'Boracic' (Boracic lint - skint). His fortunes are transformed when he dozes off and becomes the greatest financial wizard the world has ever seen, rivalled only by the Greek shipping tycoon, Aristotle Thermopylae. A confrontation between the two titans is inevitable.

Hancock coughs and splutters his way through the sixth cold of the winter - presiding over a veritable chemist's shop of pills and potions. But none of the medications - not even Mrs. Cravatte's less-orthodox curatives - seem to do the trick. Perhaps it's time for Sid's more robust remedies.
Sid James. John Le Mesurier as the doctor, Patricia Hayes as Mrs. Cravatte. Hugh Lloyd.

The detective story 'Lady Don't Fall Backwards' holds Hancock in its cheap thrall. At whom will Johnny Oxford point the accusing finger? But the last page is missing (perhaps someone lit a fag with it muses Sid). So the intrepid pair embark on a hunt for the killer's identity.
Sid James. Hugh Lloyd.

Hancock, disillusioned with his life in East Cheam, determines to seek his fortune in the Colonies: Australia, for example, where the cattle walk about with 'dirty great diamonds sticking out of their hooves'. Unfortunately, thanks to Sid's help Hancock finds himself in somewhat colder climes.

Hancock cleans out the local off-licence and decorates 23 Railway Cuttings with wartime memorabilia. There's a rip-roaring night in prospect, for 'Kippers' Hancock has arranged a reunion booze-up for his old army pals. Right tearaways they were, he tells Sid. But 15 years is a long time...
Sid James. Hugh Lloyd. Cardew Robinson. Clive Dunn.

Sid's off his food. Even a chip sandwich can't make "tall, dark and handsome of Cheam" forget his hopeless love for the girl on the 93 bus. Is Sid wise to trust Hancock to cure his lovesickness or is trouble just around the corner?.

Times are hard for the boys, and Hancock reasons, if they've got to stay in then they might as well do it in luxury. So they become baby sitters...to the horror of their new clients.

"You've had a dance, a fish supper and a ride home. What more do you want?" With chat up lines like that, it's more than time Hancock booked into the Mayfair Charm School for Lonely Men. Hancock's success rate with the opposite sex has reached baffling new depths, so it's 100 guineas slapped on the counter and waltzing lessons with Arthur Mullard. Marvellous fantasy sequences show the 'new' man in stylish action with the ladies.
Sid James. Arthur Mullard. Liz Fraser.

Having spent an arm and a leg on the latest photographic equipment, Hancock is now in search of a lucrative scoop to help with the repayments. But what? He's damned if he's going to "stand in Cheam High Street waiting for a Zeppelin to go by."

Hancock is receiving regular hate mail and complains to the local police. Oddly enough, the poisonous missives have all been posted in the letter-box right outside his front door at 23 Railway Cuttings. Whose is the twisted mind behind this well informed vitriol? Binoculars raised, Hancock, Sid and the local constabulary mount an overnight watch on the postbox.
Sid James. Patricia Hayes.

Our hero has moved out of Railway Cuttings, and is at his masterly best, brilliantly conveying the boredom of a bedsitter-land Sunday afternoon. Repeatedly, he picks up and sets down 'improving' books, he paces to and fro, he fails to watch television. It's a futile and endless day - until the phone rings and Svengali swings into action.
Solo performance by Tony Hancock.

An everyday story of Old Joshua Merryweather, unceremoniously sacked from the cast of this Archers spoof. It looks like a lean spell in the pilchard ads, until the protest letters start flooding in. So the appalling Joshua's undreamed of popularity sees him hastily written back into the scripts. And Hancock returns to the studio bent on revenge...
Patrick Cargill. Hugh Lloyd.

'Mayday! Mayday!' There's good news and bad news for a motor yacht that's been holed beneath the waterline, and is sinking off the coast of Sierra Leone. The good news for the stricken vessel is that its desperate messages have been picked up by a keen radio ham in England. The bad news is that it's the lad himself at the receiving end.

'Eight persons is eight persons - you'll have to get out' insists the attendant as Hancock barges into the crowded lift at the BBC. But Hancock won't budge and neither will the lift. A captive audience has to endure a succession of wartime stories, tasteless wisecracks and banal party games.
Hugh Lloyd. John Le Mesurier.Jack Watling.

Perhaps the best-loved, surely one of the most popular of all Hancock episodes. 'A pint, why that's very nearly an armful!' protests our public-spirited hero when he decides 'to give so that others may live' And, as with any regular bank, Hancock discovers that a deposit can be all-too-quickly followed by a sudden withdrawal.
June Whitfield. Frank Thornton. Patrick Cargill.