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The Waxwork

The Lad is set to be immortalised in wax, but it's not quite how he had envisaged. Stars Tony Hancock. From November 1959.

The Lad is set to be immortalised in wax, but the trouble is, it's not quite how he'd envisaged...

Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's classic comedy about the life and times of Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With:

Sidney James
Bill Kerr
Warren Mitchell

Theme and incidental music composed and conducted by Wally Stott.

Producer: Tom Ronald

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1959.

30 minutes

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Wed 21 Jan 202607:30

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