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• Hancock | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £2.35   |  Saving you £17.64 (750.64%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith is not your average superhero in the summer blockbuster "Hancock", soaring onto DVD, Blu-ray and UMD Video from 1st December 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

• Hancock's Half Hour - Complete Collection | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £15.99   |  Saving you £34.00 (212.63%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This collection contains all 39 surviving episodes from 1956 to 1961 of the classic sitcom written by Galton & Simpson featuring East Cheam's most famous resident Tony Hancock. Featuring such classics as The Radio Ham The Blood Donor The Bed Sitter this collection is a must for any fan of classic comedy.

• Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 1 | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £5.04   |  Saving you £7.95 (157.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tony Hancock has been voted Britain's best ever comedy performer thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968. This DVD contains the remaining episodes from Series 2 and Series 3 plus a Christmas Special. Episodes from Series 2: 1. The Alpine Holiday Episodes from Series 3: 1. Air Steward Hancock The Last Of The Many 2. The Lawyer: The Crown vs Sidney James 3. Competitions: How To Win Money And Influence People 4. There's An Airfield At The Bottom Of My Garden The Christmas

• This Is Tony Hancock | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• Hancock | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith is not your average superhero in the summer blockbuster "Hancock", soaring onto DVD, Blu-ray and UMD Video from 1st December 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

• Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 3 | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £6.04   |  Saving you £6.95 (115.07%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The mercurially talented comedian Tony Hancock returns to DVD with more from his epoch-making comedy series Hancock's Half Hour. Containing all 10 episodes from the fifth series originally broadcast in 1959.

• Hancock: The Best Of Hancock | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £5.80   |  Saving you £7.19 (123.97%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Very Best of Hancock isn't just a miscellaneous compilation of his television work, rather it is five of the six episodes from Hancock's last season with the BBC in 1961. Writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson followed Hancock to television after making him a star on radio, and it is to them as much as to Hancock's lugubrious persona that these few shows owe their classic status. In a conscious effort to throw the spotlight more firmly on himself, Hancock had parted company with his radio cohorts in the transition to TV, and here for the first time he also dispensed with stalwart comedy partner Sid James. Thanks to Galton and Simpson, however, the gamble paid off handsomely and these shows remain some of the best sitcoms ever created for British television. No longer a resident of Railway Cuttings, East Cheam, here we find Hancock in Earl's Court in the first episode, "The Bedsitter". Whether trying vainly to live the life of a carefree bachelor, playing an old country character in a thinly disguised version of "The Archers" ("The Bowmans"), wrestling with the complexities of valve radio ("The Radio Ham"), annoying everyone in an awkward situation ("The Lift") or giving that famous pint of blood ("The Blood Donor"), Galton and Simpson provide Hancock with every opportunity to exercise his wonderful pomposity and pretentiousness with scripts full of comic invention and eminently quotable lines. Hugh Lloyd and June Whitfield are among the supporting cast.On the DVD: The disc includes a good recent interview with Galton and Simpson, who talk about their sometimes difficult relationship with the star. After Hancock used cue cards while recording "The Blood Donor", they reveal, he decided never to bother learning any lines again, even though this had a detrimental effect on his ability to use comic facial expressions ever afterwards. The picture and sound quality are what might be expected from TV of this vintage. --Mark Walker

• Great Canal Journeys with Gyles Brandreth & Sheila Hancock | DVD | (04/10/2021) from £15.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brand new boaters Sheila and Gyles embark on their tour of London's waterways, starting on the upper reaches of the River Thames - a paradise of unspoiled nature, royal retreats and river regattas.Sheila and Gyles also take a trip along the Lee Navigation, tackle their first manual lock and some terrifyingly tight turns, and visit the Royal Gunpowder Mills.

• Tony Hancock Double Bill | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £32.96   |  Saving you £-16.97 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Punch & Judy Man: Tony Hancock is a melancholy Punch and Judy man trying to establish himself as an important citizen in the seaside town where he works. When his snobbish wife is taught a lesson at an important social event it looks like the British comic genius may just get the new lease of life of which he's always dreamed... (Dir. Jeremy Summers 1963) The Rebel: Tony Hancock portrays a bored city clerk who has ambitions of becoming an artist in France. (Dir. Robert Day 1961)

• Hancock (2 Disc Edition) | DVD | (01/12/2008) from £4.90   |  Saving you £18.09 (369.18%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith is not your average superhero in the summer blockbuster "Hancock", soaring onto DVD, Blu-ray and UMD Video from 1st December 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

• Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 2 - The Best Of | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tony Hancock stars with Sid James as the irrepressible tenant of 23 Railway Cuttings East Cheam. Hancock's Half-Hour is the yardstick against which all subsequent British sitcoms have been measured the vast majority failing to size up to its extremely high standards. Based on his famous radio show of the same name the TV run consolidated Tony Hancock's standing as Britain's leading comic of the day; the entertainer providing ample proof that his wonderfully flexible

• Tony Hancock: The Rebel / The Punch And Judy Man | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Rebel (1961) and The Punch and Judy Man (1963) are the only two feature films made expressly as star vehicles for the great television comic Tony Hancock. The Rebel is by far the more ambitious, being in colour with Parisian locations, a large cast, and not least a supporting role for international star George Sanders. The opening rebellion against office life surely inspired The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, while references follow to Look Back in Anger (1958) and Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) and Some Like It Hot (1959). Hancock goes to Paris to follow his artistic muse and as he rises through the art world his naivety is taken for genius, allowing for some very funny moments and spot-on satire, which are just as relevant today as 40 years ago. Filmed in black-and-white in Bognor Regis, The Punch and Judy Man is a more modest yet evocative portrait of life in a small coastal resort. Hancock is the titular beach entertainer who is happy to live from day to day with the affable companionship of John Le Mesurier and Hugh Lloyd. The problem is he's burdened with a socially ambitious wife, Sylvia Syms. Gentle humour comes from Hancock's frustrations as a proto-Basil Fawlty, and the film, packed with familiar British character actors, has an old-fashioned charm. It makes for an enjoyable supporting feature to The Rebel, which is undoubtedly a minor classic. On the DVD: Tony Hancock Double Feature presents both films at 4:3 ratio. The earlier film looks decidedly cropped in several scenes, though the latter survives the reformatting largely unscathed. The Rebel's colour is faded and the image grainy, while The Punch and Judy Man generally has a much stronger black and white image. Even so, there is some flickering and print damage. The music is distorted in The Rebel but the mono sound is fine during The Punch and Judy Man. There are no extras. --Gary S Dalkin

• Nick Hancock's Football Nightmares / Football Doctor / Football Hell | DVD | (27/11/2000) from £7.47   |  Saving you £8.52 (114.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A hysterical look at football's worst nightmares. Everything that's ever gone wrong on a football pitch... The truly unbelievable. Football Nightmares: Nick's incisive and funny commentary and intentive on-camera links and remarkable football footage combine for a hysterical look at Football's worst nightmares. Football Hell: The place all players dread. Laugh as you watch the game's biggest stars commit the most humiliating and appalling footbal sins: the inexplicable

• Hancock | Blu Ray | (26/10/2009) from £6.10   |  Saving you £13.89 (227.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two-time Academy Award nominee Will Smith is not your average superhero in the summer blockbuster "Hancock", soaring onto DVD, Blu-ray and UMD Video from 1st December 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

• Hancock's Half Hour - Vol. 4 | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (100.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The mercurially talented comedian Tony Hancock returns to DVD with more from his epoch-making comedy series Hancock's Half Hour.

• Hancock | Blu Ray | (23/05/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Hancock turns the standard superhero movie inside-out. The titular character, played by Will Smith, can fly, has super strength and is invulnerable. But he's also a sloppy, arrogant alcoholic who causes millions of dollars in property damage whenever he bothers to fight crime. When he saves the life of a PR agent named Ray (Jason Bateman, Arrested Development), Ray decides to improve Hancock's image--starting by having Hancock surrender himself to the authorities and go to prison for his lawless behaviour. The idea is that once he's in prison, the crime rate will go up and people will start realising Hancock might be of value after all. This is only the first act of Hancock though--from there, the film takes several surprising turns that shouldn't be revealed. Hancock isn't a great movie, but it is an extremely entertaining one. The script, which holds together far better than most superhero movies, has a propulsive plot, good dialogue, some compassion for its characters, and even an actual idea or two. The spectacular action at least gestures towards obeying the laws of physics, which actually makes the special effects more vivid. The three leads (Smith, Bateman, and Charlize Theron as Ray's wife, Mary) deftly balance the movie's mixture of comedy, action, and drama. All in all, a smart subversive twist on a genre that all too often takes itself all too seriously. --Bret Fetzer

• Hancock | Blu Ray | (25/01/2016) from £14.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award nominee Will Smith stars in this action-packed comedy as Hancock, a sarcastic, hard-living and misunderstood superhero who has fallen out of favor with the public. When Hancock grudgingly agrees to an extreme makeover from idealistic publicist Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman), his life and reputation rise from the ashes and all seems right again - until he meets a woman (2003 Academy Award winner Charlize Theron) with similar powers to his and the key to his secret past.Original title:HancockText:Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, EnglishSound:Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (English)Picture:1080p High Definition WidescreenFormat:Blu-ray Region-free (all regions)Country of origin:England (USA)Extra material:Duration:88 minTV system:PALPublished: , 2008Distributor: Sony PicturesDirector:Peter BergStarring:Will SmithJason BatemanCharlize TheronDaeg FaerchLauren HillDarrell Foster

• Live In Concert - DeJohnette, Hancock, Holland, Metheny | DVD | (20/04/2001) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (-29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Live in Concert is a feature-length (98 minutes) release edited from two concerts given by the jazz superstar line-up of Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland and Pat Metheny at the Mellon Jazz festival, Academy of Music, Philadelphia on June 23, 1990. This was part of an outstanding world tour following up drummer DeJohnette's Parallel Realities album, though this programme and the original album only have two cuts in common, "Indigo Dreamscapes" and "Nine Over Reggae". Hancock (piano and keyboards) and Metheny (guitar) were both on Parallel Realities but here contribute material from their own back catalogue: Hancock a barnstorming 15-minute "Hurricane" and the closing "Cantaloupe Island", Metheny offering the appropriately nocturnal and reflective "The Bat". Bassist Dave Holland, who was the guest on the tour, introduces the sequence with the longest cut, "Shadow Dance". Here are four of the world's finest modern jazz artists at the top of their game; virtuoso playing certainly, but also impeccable taste and artistry, seamless interaction and inspired music-making. When combined with a transparent, gimmick-free visual style, which simply shows the musicians playing, concentrating on whoever is soloing to offer the best seat in the house, the result is an uplifting, exhilarating example of how well jazz can be presented on DVD. On the DVD: there are no special features other than a trailer for two classical DVDs, and as such the disc starts playing automatically, allowing it to be used like a particularly long live album without even turning the TV on. Unusually for 1990 the concert was shot at 16:9 and is presented anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs, though nothing can disguise the relative softness of live video shot under concert lighting, nor the occasional after-images left by the lighting. The stereo sound is absolutely first-rate, and that's what really counts.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Nick Hancock - The Outsiders | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This hilarious DVD has it all!! Comedy combined with the clarity of great football. The surprise guests at last year's biggest party - the 1998 World Cup Finals - were the Iranian National Football team and their supporters. Having only reached the Finals once before and falling to score any goals they were most definitely at 500/1 the ultimate outsiders. Comedian Nick Hancock from the BBC's ""They Think It's All Over"" and Andy Smart of The Vicious Boys chart the team's progress

• hancock / Men In Black / Men In Black 2 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £3.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (329.51%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Hancock: Will Smith stars as Hancock - a edgy conflicted sarcastic and misunderstood guy whose well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives but always seem to leave jaw-dropping damage in their wake. The public has finally had enough - as grateful as they are to have their local hero the good citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn't the kind of man who cares what other people think - until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) and the sardonic superhero begins to realize that he may have a vulnerable side after all. Men In Black: Secret agents 'K' (Tommy Lee Jones) and 'J' (Will Smith) work for a highly funded yet unofficial government agency which tracks civilisation-infiltrating extraterrestrial. K and J must prevent an alien terrorist (Vincent D'Onofrio) from assassinating two galactic ambassadors on Earth for a conference dooming the Earth to certain destruction. Men In Black 2: Agent J and Agent K are back! Agent J (Will Smith) needs help with a new breed of alien terror intent on destroying the planet. He is sent to find Agent K (Jones) restore his memory and enlist him in the fight of a lifetime.