![]() At other times he would try and recreate scenarios from his military days which also confused and bored passing strangers. ![]() A regular skit from this period included Foggy crossing paths with a stranger and then rambling about his supposed military career, typically boring each stranger to death. Returning in 1990 after the sudden departure of Michael Aldridge, he claimed he had tired of egg painting, and wanted to return to his old life. When Wilde left the series in 1985 to star in his own sitcom and to pursue other TV work, it was explained that Foggy had moved to Bridlington to take over his family's egg-painting business. In earlier years, Foggy wore a scarf with regimental colours on it. Foggy was infamous for trying to figure out a solution to the trio's everyday problems, only to make them much worse. Like the previous third man – and all subsequent third men – he considered himself the leader of the trio, and frequently took charge of Compo and Clegg. In fact, he had been a signwriter and unlike Blamire, many of his old military stories were untrue.Īlthough he considered himself very regimental and heroic, when confronted, Foggy was generally meek and incompetent. "Foggy" Dewhurst was the successor to Blamire, a former soldier who liked to boast of his military exploits in Burma during the Second World War. After Foggy's first episode, Cyril is never mentioned again. The last we hear of him is a very organised letter, instructing Clegg and Compo to meet their old classmate, Foggy Dewhurst. Blamire was written out of the series it was said that he had left to get married. Bates left the cast in 1975 due to cancer and concentrated on his role in It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Despite his snobby nature Blamire had more commonsense than most of his successors. In spite of this, Compo and Blamire were close, as shown by Compo's misery in the episodes immediately after he left. Out of all of the third men, Blamire tolerated Compo's antics the least (though sometimes when he got caught up in them he would join in, such as backchatting Miss Probert on one occasion) and treated him the worst such as occasionally telling Compo he should kill himself by "read the tailgate of a reversing lorry". Blamire" and would say that Compo had to touch his "tatty cap" whenever he did so. ![]() Cyril would often reprimand Compo whenever he addressed him by his given name, as he preferred the "more rounded tone of Mr. Because of his sophisticated interests and insistence on table manners, Compo liked to refer to him as a "poof" (in turn, Cyril would often use insults such as "grotty little herbert" to Compo). He was a Tory and a self-important know-it-all with upper-class aspirations, who often dissociated himself from the other two, especially Compo, as he considered himself superior to them. He served as a corporal in the British Army in the Royal Signals regiment during "The Great Fight for Freedom" as a "supply wallah" (a storeman) in India and retains his military bearing. Blamire was fired up by displays of youthful enthusiasm, energetic gusto, or any sign of the British spirit. ( Michael Bates 1973–1975) The first "third man", and the most childishly argumentative and snobbish, Blamire was the contrast to Compo. Main article: Compo Simmonite Cyril Blamire
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