Hancock's Half Hour - The Lost TV Episodes will be brought to life on stage at Deepings Community Centre on November 7.

Actor and playwright John Hewer has re-worked three missing television episodes of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's celebrated BBC situation comedy Hancock's Half Hour including The Auction, The Russian Prince and The Bequest and plays the lad himself.

"As a performer, you want to be meticulous," said John. "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.

" 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."