| Acknowledgements | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface: ‘Remembered laughter’ | |
| 1. The Image of Hancock | |
| 2. ‘You’ll go far, my son’ | |
| 3. ‘Remember Gibraltar?’ | |
| 4. ‘It’s not easy, is it?’ | |
| 5. Radio Waves | |
| 6. Hancock’s Radio Half Hour | |
| 7. ‘Going through the card’ | |
| 8. Hancock’s Television Half Hour | |
| 9. Face to Face and About-face | |
| 10. ‘And then there were three …’ | |
| 11. Matters of Loyalty | |
| 12. ‘Thumbs down and into the crocodile pit’ | |
| 13. ‘The limbo is calling …’ | |
| 14. ‘… Your star will be falling’ | |
| 15. ‘Too many times’ | |
| 16. ‘What was he really like?’ | |
| Epilogue: ‘Funny and sad’ | |
| Index | |
