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
Comedy-drama the series "Moonlighting". It generated critical acclaim and was a highly rated series worldwide. Another example of a successful comedy-drama was the television series "Eight Is Enough". The show was distinct, because it was not a comedy-drama in the traditional sense. It was an hour-long series that used a laugh track, which was very unusual, but is considered a comedy-drama for the fact that it alternated between drama and comedy. In the United Kingdom, the format first appeared successfully in 1979 with the long-running series "Minder", along with other notable comedy-dramas such as "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" and "Big Deal." In