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Competitions - How to Win Money and Influence People
Hancock's Half Hour - S3 - E10
Hancock takes up entering newspaper competitions as a full time job. When he wins a few competitions, he is foolish enough to trust Sid to look after the money.
Hancock's Half Hour: Season 3 - 12 Episode s
3x1 - The Continental Holiday
September 30, 1957
Hancock has been on holiday abroad and he tells Sid of his exploits in which he foiled an international gang of smugglers.
3x2 - The Great Detective
October 7, 1957
Hancock dreams of becoming the great detective 'Sexton Hancock' and proceeds to unravel a complicated murder plot.
3x3 - The Amusement Arcade
October 14, 1957
Sid has set up an amusement arcade, but when Hancock finds out he leads a campaign to have it closed down. Meanwhile, Hancock seeks election to the Council but when Sid's arcade is closed down he moves it... to Hancock's house!
3x4 - A Holiday in Scotland
October 21, 1957
Hancock is told by the doctor he must get fit. But when Hancock takes an unwilling Sid on a hunting holiday to Scotland, they get snowed in.
3x5 - Air Steward Hancock - The Last of the Many
October 28, 1957
Hancock takes on a new job as an air steward. But when one of the passengers on his first flight is Sid who is on the run from the police, and the other passengers include four police officers looking for a bank robber, Hancock's first landing doesn't go quite as expected!
3x6 - The Regimental Reunion
November 4, 1957
Hancock, a junior clerk in a City office for 19 years, receives a promotion when his army friends, who met at a reunion, place large orders with the firm. However, they are all fraudulent orders and Sid has the takings!
3x7 - The Adopted Family
November 11, 1957
Hancock needs to get to the top of the waiting list for a Council House but to do this he needs a wife and four children. So he adopts Sid and four of his mates, but then he can't get rid of them!
3x8 - The Elocution Teacher
November 25, 1957
Famous actor Jack Hawkins takes elocution lessons with Hancock and is reduced to being the leader of a rock-and-roll group.
3x9 - The Lawyer - The Crown vs Sidney James
December 2, 1957
Hancock becomes a lawyer but when he defends an obviously guilty Sid James in court he finds himself the subject of a guilty verdict!
3x10 - Competitions - How to Win Money and Influence People
December 9, 1957
Hancock takes up entering newspaper competitions as a full time job. When he wins a few competitions, he is foolish enough to trust Sid to look after the money.
3x11 - There's An Airfield At the Bottom of My Garden
December 16, 1957
Hancock buys a house from Sid but discovers that there's an airfield at the bottom of his garden! Returning to Sid dissatisfied, he is forced to try to sell the house himself but he has considerable difficulties, some of them unscripted! This is because the set was designed to fall apart at a given point in the script but unfortunately, the set starts to fall apart too early and Hancock is forced to improvise!
3x12 - Hancock's 43 Minutes - The East Cheam Repertory Company
December 23, 1957
A complete departure from the usual show. Hancock presents his own variety show from the Television Theatre - but he has asked Sid to provide all the acts!