Something for the benefit of the country as a whole. From The Blood Donor, an episode of Hancock's Half Hour first shown on BBC TV on June 23, 1961. HANCOCK'S ACT OF PATRIOTISM HANCOCK: I've been thinking about this for a long time. Anyway, as I'm not looking for a wife and I can't play table tennis, here I am. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with comic actor Sid James. Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.. Watch the video for The Blood Donor from Tony Hancock's Comedy Essentials for free, … With Tony Hancock, Patrick Cargill, Peggy Ann Clifford, Kenneth Cowan. Tony goes to donate blood,but typically, he turns it into an issue of status and class when he discovers he has a rare type. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1975 Vinyl release of The Best Of Tony Hancock: The Blood Donor / The Radio Ham on Discogs. He bothers the hospital staff by insisting on updates as to who receives his elite blood. What should it be, I thought: become a blood donor or join the Young Conservatives? Directed by Duncan Wood.