Hancocks half hour probably 1950s Chad Valley

	Hancocks half hour	?1950s	Chad Valley
	First produced	?1950s	Players	2 to 4	Age(s)

Click the picture for more		1 x playing board built into the inner box packaging 4 x colour cardboard Tony Hancock playing pieces with metal stands 4 x colour clock gauges 1 x cardboard spinner 1 x pack of money in 3 denominations; - £10 (12), £5 (6) and £1 (20) 48 x cards; - 4 suit £2, 4 shirt EC laundry £1, 4 barbers, 4 insurance, 12 job, 4 rates receipt paid £10, 4 property, 4 East Cheam bank £10 loan, 2 Balmoral Hotel £5 menu, 2 Fred's pie stall snacks £1 and 4 pay Sydney £3 fee Played on a map of East Cheam, showing many of Tony Hancock's regular haunts. Choose a Tony Hancock playing piece and clock of matching colour. Each player starts with £20. Travel from Tony Hancock's house to the theatrical agency to find a job and then return home as quickly as possible.

First, go to the pawnbrokers to collect his suit, then the barbers and then to the laundry for his shirt. Pick up cards at these sites to determine how much to pay. Land on certain squares and you must turn your clock the number of minutes shown. The winner is the first player to reach home within 30 minutes on the clock and with at least £1.
A wonderful nostalgic game for Tony Hancock fans. The rules are printed on the inside of the box lid. "By arrangement with Alan Simpson and Ray Galton" and a black and white photograph of Tony Hancock are printed on the outer box.

Barbers cards;
- 1 shampoo and set £1, 1 shave and haircut £1, 1 manicure and hair tinting £2, 1 hire of false beard £3

Property cards;
- 1 flat in high street £5 deposit, 1 semidetached in James Street £5 deposit, 1 bungalow in Riverside Drive £10 deposit, 1 desirable residence in Anthony Avenue £10 deposit,

Job cards with £ advance;
- 1 the butler in What the butler saw £40, 1 title role in Hamlet £30, 1 Commissionaire at the E. Cheam repertory theatre £20, 1 swan in Swan Lake £25, 1 the dormouse in Alice in Wonderland £30, 1 the wolf in Little red riding hood £30, 1 ugly sister in Cinderella £20, 1 doorman at the Chinese restaurant £20, 1 Professor Figgins in My blonde baby £40, 1 in the chorus of new musical Song of east Cheam £25, 1 juvenile lead in A sip of treacle by Delilah Trelawny £40, 1 leading lady in Anthony and Cleopatra £30

EC laundry cards;
- have the same value but each card is illustrated with a different shirt pattern.

Suit cards;
- have the same value but each card is illustrated with a different pattern and design of suit.

Insurance, rates receipt, bank loan, hotel menu, Fred's pie stall and Sidney cards have identical information printed on them.