That’s a shame. In ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’, Galton and Simpson largely invented the sitcom, and the genre has seldom been as consistently good. On my office wall alongside diplomas, I have photos of Samson Raphael Hirsch, two favorite law school professors, and Tony Hancock.
Thanks for the post, Olog-hai. I wouldn’t have known of this for days otherwise.
Prayers to his family...
RIP.
What you might not know is that Three’s Company descended from a British sitcom called Man About the House. MATH was superior to the US version in that the guy was constantly trying to bed his female roommates, unlike the quasi-faggot John Ritter we put up with.