The Bowmans
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The Bowmans is a 1961 episode of the TV comedy programme Hancock (previously known as Hancock's Half Hour).
In it Tony Hancock plays an actor in a radio programme called The Bowmans, a parody of The Archers. Hancock plays Joshua Merriweather, an over-the-top parody of country bumpkin Walter Gabriel. He annoys the actors and producers so much they kill off his character, only to have to resurrect him by discovering a long-lost twin brother, after protests from listeners.
It includes Patrick Cargill as the producer, and Peter Glaze as an animal impersonator.
The programme is clearly a parody of the killing of Grace Archer. It bears a few similarities to The Killing of Sister George, a better-known parody of this incident.
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