Latest News... November 2009

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BBC Radio 2 will broadcast a documentary on Ray and Alan at 10.30pm on Christmas Day plus repeats of the Galton and Simpson's Half Hour.

FILM

OCTOBER 2006 - THE REBEL featuring special commentary. PAUL MERTON interviews RAY & ALAN about the anecdotes and gossip surrounding the actors and the making of this Tony Hancock film. Double feature. The Tony Hancock Collection - Optimum OPTD 0655

 

CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING BBC MERCHANDISE

CD
April 2009	UNIQUE HANCOCK - CD - Vintage Beeb Classic Album first available as BBC LP, first time on CD highlights from various 1950's Hancock's Half Hour series
May 2009	GALTON & SIMPSON'S HALF HOUR - 60th Anniversary CD 4 classic Galton & Simpson TV comedy plays they adapted for BBC Radio 2 broadcast March 2009: You'll Never Walk Alone starring Frank Skinner Impasse starring Mitchell & Webb I Tell You It's Burt Reynolds starring Rik Mayall & June Whitfield The Blood Donor starring Paul Merton
July 2009	HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR - CD - THE LOST TV EPISODES The Flight of the Red Shadow & The Wrong Man
November 2009	HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR - CD - THE LOST EPISODES Sid James's Dad and The Diet

 

DVD
Autumn 2007	HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR – BOXSET Including "Lost Programmes" in script form on CD: the first tv show, the artist, the dancer, the bequest, the radio show, the chef that died of shame (adapted by johnny speight), lady chatterleys revenge, the russian prince, the new neighbour, the pianist, the auction, the continental holiday, the great detective the amusement arcade, a holiday in scotland, the regimental reunion, the adopted family, the elocution teacher, underpaid or grandads sos, the flight of the red shadow, the horror serial, the italian maid, matrimony-almost, the beauty contest, the wrong man, the servants PLUS Paul Merton talking through with Ray and Alan about 3 of the memorable episodes
	STEPTOE AND SON – BOXSET - Including the Christmas Specials
	STEPTOE AND SON - Christmas Specials
January 2009	DVD from NETWORK DISTRIBUTION
	DAWSON'S WEEKLY 1970's Yorkshire TV half hour comedies starring LES DAWSON
	THE GALTON & SIMPSON PLAYHOUSE 1970's Yorkshire TV half hour comedies starring starring ARTHUR LOWE, LEONARD ROSSITER, WARREN MITCHELL, FRANCES DE LA TOUR, RICHARD BRIERS, ROY KINNEAR, FREDDIE JONES

 

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Welcome! I am the personal manager and agent looking after the lives and works of RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON having started with them as a girl friday at “The Fun Factory” writers' agency A.L.S. Management in 1965, which continued as part of The Robert Stigwood Organisation from 1968-1983 until Tessa Le Bars Management started. GALTON & SIMPSON CATALOGUE Ray Galton & Alan Simpson have completed over 600 scripts since they started writing together in 1951. The formats, characters, storylines and scripts are all copyright Galton & Simpson and all enquiries and licence requests should be addressed to Tessa Le Bars Management. As well as being performed on television, film and stage, in the UK and round the world, their scripts have been reproduced commercially on video, audio, and in book publications, mostly by the BBC, and all items can be obtained via the links page. For details of Alan Simpson as guest speaker please click here.

You may contact me at Tessa Le Bars Management Address: 54 Birchwood Road, Petts Wood, Kent BR5 1NZ, U.K. Tel/Fax: 01689 837084 Mobile: 07860 287255 Email: tessa.lebars@ntlworld.com Thank you for visiting this site.

 

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