Editing It's That Man Again (section)

==Other characters==
Kavanagh and the ''ITMA'' team caricatured people of all ages, both sexes, and many nationalities, classes and professions. There were spoofs of national and regional types, including Johann Bull, a conspicuously Teutonic German agent trying to pass himself off as English;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}} Chief Bigga Banga of Tomtopia, who spoke no English and Wamba M'Boojah who spoke with the grandest of [[Oxford accent]]s, having been a BBC announcer;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=113}} the American publicity agent, Luke Slippy;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=43}} Hari Kari, a Japanese caller whose gibberish only Handley could understand,{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=35}} and his compatriots Bowing and Scraping.{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=116}} From the British regions there were the Scottish Tattie Mackintosh (and her mother); the Welsh Sam Fairfechan ("Hello, how are you? As if I cared") and his family;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|pp=42, 44}} and the [[Liverpool|Liverpudlian]] Frisby Dyke, with a strong [[Scouse]] accent, puzzled by some of Handley's longer words ("What's a concentrated cacophony?"),{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=151}} but usually winning their weekly battle of wits.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=46}}{{efn|Frisby Dyke was the name of a Liverpool department store; ''ITMA''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s use of the name escaped the BBC's strict ban on advertising because the store had gone out of business in 1936.{{sfn|Took|1981|p=27}}}}

Leading female characters included three secretaries to Handley in his various capacities: Cilly,{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=31}} Dotty (her sister),{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=32}} and the formidable but soft-hearted Miss Hotchkiss;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=41}} Mrs Lola Tickle, Handley's first charlady;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=33}} the shy Lady Sonely;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=113}} Banjeleo, Bigga Banga's daughter and translator;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=113}} Nurse Riff-Rafferty, Handley's old nanny, with a fund of embarrassing stories of his early years;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=113}} Naieve, Major Mundy's old-fashioned daughter;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=42}} the "pert poppet" Poppy Poopah;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=39}}{{sfn|"The master of the rapid-fire radio pun show". ''Sydney Morning Herald''}} Ruby Rockcake who ran the railway buffet: "No cups outside!";{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=113}} the generously proportioned Ella Phant;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=136}} and the two unnamed Posh Ladies, whose conversations were strewn with "dahlings" and always ended with the cry, "Taxi!"{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=38}}

Military figures in addition to Colonel Chinstrap included his puritanical nephew Brigadier Dear, mortified by his uncle's excesses;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=134}} and Major Mundy, a British expatriate on Tomtopia with an unreconstructed 19th-century mindset.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=42}}

Among the mock authority figures were Sir Short Supply, a strangulated-voiced bureaucrat;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=134}} the Town Clerk, a north-country official who would offer "have a cher, Mr Mer", later Mer himself;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|pp=93–94}} Fusspot, an official whose name was self-explanatory;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=32}} two characters with a habit of repeating the ends of their sentences: the Man from the Ministry{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}} and Inspector Squirt: "I'm Inspector Squirt—I said Squirt";{{sfn|Worsley|1949|p=102}} and Percy Palaver, appointed governor of Tomtopia in Handley's absence, and notable for his generally unintelligible speech punctuated with "oomyahs" and "harrumphs".{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=43}}

Professions and occupations were represented by, among others, the announcer at Radio Fakenburg;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=33}} Atlas, the hypochondriac strongman;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=46}} Bookham, a variety agent;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}} Curly Kale, a chef who hated food and loved dreadful old jokes;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=112}} Dan Dungeon, the jocose tour guide at Castle Weehouse;{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=134}} Farmer Jollop;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=34}} Lemuel the office boy;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=33}} Norman the Doorman;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}} and Vodkin and Vladivostooge, two mad scientists.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|pp=31, 33}}

Eccentrics included Basil Backwards ("Sir, morning good! Coffee of cup. Strong too not. Milk have rather I'd");{{sfn|Kynaston|2010|p=306}} George Gorge, a champion glutton;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=42}} Comical Chris, a persistent would-be joker;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=38}} Mark Time, a nonagenarian whose response to anything was, "I'll have to ask me dad";{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=41}} Mr Sninch-of-Puff, a man who spoke in [[spoonerism]]s;{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=44}}{{sfn|"ITMA". ''The Sketch''}} and Whats'isname, a man who struggled to recall the simplest nouns, and had the same effect on Handley.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=38}}{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=102}}