Originally Posted by
ComsatAngel2017
The clue is in the title. Readers under the age of 90 who do not hail from the UK may not have understood. ITMA was a wartime radio broadcast.
It was the tommy Handley show dressed up as a sitcom.
ITMA was short for 'It's That Man Again'
It ran for 10 years from 1939 and only ended when Tommy Handley died.
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ITMA was an important contributor to British morale during the war, with its cheerful take on the day-to-day preoccupations of the public, but its detailed topicality – one of its greatest attractions at the time – has prevented it from wearing well on repeated hearing. The show's lasting legacy is its influence on subsequent BBC comedy. ITMA's innovative structure – a half-hour comedy with musical interludes and a cast of regular characters with popular catchphrases – was successfully continued in comedy shows of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Take It from Here, The Goon Show and Round the Horne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_That_Man_Again