Article: HERO'S welcome!; IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO, IT'S FATHER TED STAR ARDAL O'HANLON AS THE WORLD'S NEWEST SUPERHERO - THERMOMAN.(Features)

Article: On air: Serious about being silly Father Ted's ...
The Independent - London;  November 2, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... which so distinguished Father Ted. In one skit, the Bee ... ridiculous priest called Father Ted. They began writing ... unfavourable comparisons with Tony Hancock's The Rebel," says ... surreal connections." As Father Ted proved. Although set ...

Article: Tony Hancock.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  April 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... and that's probably why we love Tony Hancock. Hancock's on-screen misery was ... same name, the TV run consolidated Tony Hancock's standing as Britain's leading ... wouldn't have understood it but with Tony Hancock, it made sense. In July 1966 Freddie ...

Article: THE GUILLOTINE: No 39: TONY HANCOCK ...
The Independent - London;  October 3, 1999 ;     570 words ... ... repeated too often. Consider the case of Tony Hancock. For two decades, the 1950s and 1960s ... Ladies and gentlemen, the BBC presents Tony Hancock in ... " - pause, then the comedian ... once upon a time. As we laughed at Tony Hancock. Like so many of his generation, however ...

Article: BBC bosses wrote off Tony Hancock as a `moody ...
The Independent on Sunday;  October 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Tony Hancock, the comic genius who became one of ... Jeff Hammonds, a founder member of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, points out that ... Wind Changed: The Life and Death of Tony Hancock, said: "On that final day of shooting ...

Article: Prophet of gloom ; LAST LAUGH: Tony Hancock in ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  November 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Roger Lewis Tony Hancock, The Definitive Biography by John ... my youth, I didn't appreciate Tony Hancock at all. He was the supreme frog ... example of the tragedy of comedy than Tony Hancock. However, it is cheeky of Fisher ...

Article: I don't believe it! Tony Hancock would have been 75 ...
The Independent - London;  May 12, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Whatever else he was, Tony Hancock was a master of exclamation - his ... then he wouldn't have been Tony Hancock anymore. Not, at least, the ... newspaper reports of the time). A Tony Hancock eking a living on nostalgia tours ...

Article: It's the Lad Himself as never seen before It's Tony ...
Evening Mail;  May 3, 1999 ;     700+ words ...TONY Hancock might have celebrated his 75th birthday ... to the Evening Mail courtesy of the Tony Hancock Appreciation Society, which received ... memories or memorabilia connected with Tony Hancock. His telephone number is 01203.361349 ...