In the mid-1960s, Joan, not long married to comic actor John Le Mesurier, meets and is mutually attracted to comedian Tony Hancock, married to the long-suffering Freddie. Hancock's most successful period is in the past and he has become depressive and alcoholic, recently emerging from a stay in a rehab centre. Joan tells him that if he can remain sober for a year she will leave John for him. Hancock goes to Australia to film a comedy series there but it does not work out and he commits suicide. Joan stays with John until his death in the 1980s.—don @ minifie-1
This drama features Ken Stott as British comedy legend Tony Hancock, and charts the last two years of his life, culminating in Hancock's suicide in Australia in 1968. Maxine Peake appears as Joan, wife of Hancock's best friend, fellow performer John Le Mesurier, who had an affair with Hancock and attempted to rid him of the destructive aalcoholism that was to ultimately prove his downfall.
