HANCOCK
Pin your ears back, this is going to be a big ‘un, this’ll probably clear you right out. Now then… I want ten crates of stout winter brew, five crates of best brown, twelve quarts of Dragon’s Breath, two barrels of bitter, two crates of Danish lager, and a barrel of rough cider.
OFF LICENCE MANAGER
Cor, blimey! Are you going to have a party?
[beat]
HANCOCK
No, me grandmother’s coming over.
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From Hancock’s Half Hour, ‘The Reunion Party’, BBC Television, first broadcast 25 March 1960.
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ten crates of stout winter brew … twelve quarts of Dragon’s Breath
I wonder if these corresponded to real things, or if Galton & Simpson just put them in because they sounded appropriately ‘beery’.
there are frequent references to beer and pubs in Hancock’s radio and TV stuff, pint of Wilson’s Collar in one, a discussion on how a landlord’s beer has gone off in another. Then there’s his first proper movie The Punch & Judy Man, which features a set piece amongst the snugs of a proper pub.
Having a party?