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My Hero: Ben Miller On Tony Hancock, Television Review. B.B.C. Television.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The name, the very thought of his face and the way he was even able to clear the pubs of any custom at his absolute peak, is enough to remember Tony Hancock for what he was, a genius of comedy, the master of stalled look at camera in which he carried a nations funny bone for over a decade until his untimely death in Australia in 1968.