Word: blimpcompoops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acts divide into surrealistic vaudeville episodes in the life of an anti-hero at ages 22, 32 and 42. In Act I, Lieut. Frank More (James Bolam) reports at a demobilization center sans troops or trousers. The colonel (Peter Bayliss) doesn't notice, since he is a total Blimpcompoop. He does notice that the peanuts are missing at the officers' bar, and he raises unprintable hell. World regularly mocks British dead-face understatement about things that count v. British redneck rage over trifles. Bayliss does a kind of tonsillectomy of his part. He wheezes, bleeps, snorts, and plays...
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