Patrick Ryan (author and journalist) then transferred to The Fourth Regiment of the Reconnaissance Corps of the Royal Armoured Corps. He served in North Africa, Italy, and Greece. He moved to Leeds in the 1950s as Assistant Head Postmaster, and his "apprenticeship" in adapting to Yorkshire life is related in his humorous memoir "How I Became A Yorkshireman", published in the late 1960s. He later became Head Postmaster at Harrogate and was a regular contributor for "Punch" and The New Scientist in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as writing several television plays and some episodes of "The Army Game" and "Bootsie and Snudge" both
Marty Feldman "Bootsie and Snudge" (1960–62), both situation comedies made by Granada Television for the ITV network. For BBC radio they wrote "Round the Horne" (1964–67), their best-remembered comedy series, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams. (The last season of "Round the Horne" in 1968 was written by others.) This work placed Feldman and Took "in the front rank of comedy writers," according to Denis Norden. Feldman then became the chief writer and script editor on "The Frost Report" (1966–67). He co-wrote the much-shown "Class" sketch with John Law, in which John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett faced the audience,