The Bowmans The Bowmans "The Bowmans" is an episode of the BBC television situation comedy programme "Hancock", the final BBC series featuring Tony Hancock, first broadcast on 2 June 1961. It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The title is a retronym; the episodes were not originally identified separately. Hancock plays an actor in a fictional radio serial called "The Bowmans", a parody of the real BBC radio programme "The Archers". The theme tune to "The Bowmans" is a close variation by series composer Wally Stott of the real "Archers" theme tune "Barwick Green". Hancock plays Joshua Merriweather, a character
One Song to the Tune of Another Boy" and vice versa). Also in recent popular culture bootlegging and bastard pop have taken is a step further, employing the practice of laying down vocals from one track over the music from another. Both "The Star Spangled Banner" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" are both examples of taking a song and writing new lyrics for the tune. One Song to the Tune of Another "One Song to the Tune of Another" was the first game played on the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" and is still almost always played every other