Editing It's That Man Again (section)

====Series 5 and 6: September 1942 to July 1943====
Series 5 started in September 1942 and ran for twenty weeks. One of the programmes in November was broadcast on the [[BBC Forces Programme]] to the soldiers in North Africa, the first time the show had been transmitted to the troops.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|pp=37–38}} The shows became increasingly topical and up-to-the-minute.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}} Worsley began experimenting with the size of the audience to see which worked best. He tried in the theatres and cinemas of Bangor and [[Llandudno]] to get an audience of 2000, and in the studio in Bangor with 200; he also tried with no audience, and settled on 200 as the right number.{{sfn|Took|1981|pp=23–24}}{{efn|Took notes that for decades afterwards, radio and television audiences in the UK all had 200–300 people, based on Worsley's research.{{sfn|Took|1981|p=24}}}} The premise of the show changed again with Handley ejected as the mayor of Foaming-in-the-Mouth, and now the manager of a munitions factory. Several new characters were introduced, including Colonel Chinstrap, a dipsomaniac retired army officer voiced by Train.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}}

Before the sixth series began recording, a film version, ''[[It's That Man Again (film)|It's That Man Again]]'', was released. Starring Handley and including many of the radio programme regulars, it was written by Kavanagh and [[Howard Irving Young]] and directed by [[Walter Forde]].{{sfn|"It's That Man Again (1943)". ''British Film Institute''}}{{sfn|"Non-Stop Revue". ''The Times''}} ''[[The Times]]'' considered it difficult to transpose a radio show format onto a cinema screen, but thought Forde "manages his difficult task extremely well". As a consequence, the reviewer thought the film "achieves at least a partial success through the extravagance of its own craziness".{{sfn|"The Tivoli To Reopen". ''The Times''}}

The scenario of the programme changed again for series six, when, following a decision to move the munitions factory underground, a [[sulphur]] spring was tapped and Foaming-in-the-Mouth became a [[spa]].{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=37}}