Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall will stage Hancock's Half Hour

Aldeburgh's Jubilee Hall will be the venue for a performance of three missing television episodes - The Auction, The Russian Prince and The Bequest - which have been re-worked by actor and playwright John Hewer.

Hancock's Half Hour - which was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson - started out as a BBC radio comedy before moving to television and was broadcast between 1954 and 1961.

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The series starred the comedian Tony Hancock along with an array of well-known comedians and actors, including Carry On film stars Sidney James, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.

Hancock played an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own lifestyle as Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, living at 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.

Mr Hewer said he was "extremely proud" to be recreating Hancock.

The stage show Hancock's Half Hour - The Lost TV episodes - will be at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall (Image: Submitted) He added: "We cannot bring Tony, Sid, Hattie, Kenneth and Liz back to life, but we can honour their genius - and Ray and Alan's - with these affectionate revivals of these golden, ageless scripts and, hopefully, extend the legacy to younger audiences and the next generation.

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"There will always be a part of any individual performer which you cannot mask and it would be unwise not to admit and accept that.

"The audiences are equally savvy.

"However it's that shared mutual love that makes these revivals such a pleasure to both perform and to witness and I'm extremely proud to be recreating Hancock and bringing these particular episodes, lost from the archive, to life, for the very first time since the original broadcasts in 1956 and 1957."

The show will be taking place at 7.30pm on Saturday, September 28.