1 Tommy’s parents, Thomas and Gertrude Cooper, circa 1920s. (Private Collection)

      2 Three years old and ready for play. (Private Collection)

      3 Eighteen years old and ready for the world. (Private Collection)

      4 Enjoying a bottle and a glass off duty in Egypt in 1947. (Private Collection)

      5 Gwen (far left), star of her wartime concert party. (Private Collection)

      6 Tommy and Gwen, just prior to their wedding in Cyprus, 1947. (Private Collection)

      7 The early publicity pose that defined an image. (Rimis Ltd)

      8 Miff Ferrie: agent, manager, Svengali. (Rimis Ltd)

      9 Later publicity pose when success was assured. (Robert Harper)

      10 Baby Vicky seems unimpressed. (Chris Ware/Hulton Getty)

      11 11. With baby Thomas in the garden at Chiswick. (Private Collection)

      12 ‘Frankie and Bruce and Tommy’s Christmas Show’, 1966. (Fremantle Media)

      13 ‘Do you like football?’ (Mirrorpix)

      14 ‘Bucket, sand! Sand, bucket!’ (Hulton Getty)

      15 Time to relax with the famous feet up at home. (Private Collection)

      16 A sensation on the Ed Sullivan Show, New York, 1967. (Private Collection)

      17 ‘When autumn leaves start to fall …’ (Fremantle Media)

      18 ‘And ven zey are caught everyone vill be shot …’ (Fremantle Media)

      19 Funny bones: with Anita Harris, promoting Tommy’s Palladium show, 1971. (Private Collection)

      20 A rare private moment backstage. (Hulton Getty)

      1 A modern Mad Hatter. (Fremantle Media)

      2 The caricature by Bill Hall. (© Bill Hall)

      3 ‘Where’s Jerry Lewis when I need him?’: Dean Martin at the Variety Club Lunch held in his honour, with Tommy and Morecambe & Wise. (Mirrorpix)

      4 Master of his terrain: playing the clubs in the Seventies. (John Curtis/Rex Features)

      5 With Mary Kay during the latter years. (Private Collection)

      6 ‘Look into my eyes’: the New London Theatre television series, 1978. (Fremantle Media)

      7 A modern Punch and Judy: ‘That’s the way to do it!’ (Fremantle Media)

      8 ‘On a clear day …’ (Fremantle Media)

      9 ‘Look at the buffalo and speak into the tennis racquet’: with his son, Thomas Henty. (Fremantle Media)

      10 ‘You’ve done some terrible, terrible things in your life!’: with Frank Thornton. (Fremantle Media)

      11 T. C. – Totally Convulsed. (Fremantle Media)

      12 With staunch straight man, Allan Cuthbertson. (Fremantle Media)

      13 ‘And do have a piece of my homemade cake’: with Betty Cooper and Robert Dorning. (Fremantle Media)

      14 Tommy as the public seldom saw him: at rehearsals during the late Seventies. (Fremantle Media)

      15 Our hero sleepwalks for his hero, Arthur Askey. (Fremantle Media)

      16 With Eric Sykes, special champion and dear friend. (Fremantle Media)

      17 Image taken from the final television show, 15 April 1984. (Steve Blogg/Rex Features)

      18 The last photograph, Las Palmas, 1984. (Private Collection)

      19 Tommy’s ‘Dove’ amongst her souvenirs. (Daily Mail)