Editing It's That Man Again (section)

===Funf===
{{Quote box |bgcolor=#e6e6ff|salign=center | quote =<big>'''Funf'''</big><br />Played by Jack Train<br />Series 2–6<br />Catchphrase: ''This is Funf speaking''.{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=49}}||align=right| width=30%}}

Funf,{{efn|Although fünf is the German for "five", the name was not chosen for any association with "fifth column": Worsley, hearing his schoolboy son counting in German, decided that Funf—pronounced ''foonf''—sounded ideal.{{sfn|Partridge|1992|p=95}}}} "the enemy agent with the feet of sauerkraut",{{sfn|Curran|Seaton|2002|p=135}} was the earliest of the show's major supporting characters, making his debut in the second programme of the second series.{{sfn|Foster|Furst|1999|p=32}} He was an incompetent German agent, ''ITMA'''s response to a national scare in 1940 about a supposed "[[fifth column]]" in Britain.{{sfn|Thurlow|1999|p=477}} He would telephone Handley to make dark threats, in a sinister, hollow voice, which Train produced by speaking across the top of an empty glass held next to the microphone. Handley's verbal dexterity continually left Funf in confusion. Funf, described by the media historian [[Denis Gifford]] as "the greatest of all war-time characters",{{sfn|Gifford|1985|p=134}} became what Worsley called "a national craze"{{sfn|Partridge|1992|p=95}} and helped to make the German propaganda machine a source of public ridicule in Britain.{{sfn|Kavanagh|1975|p=17}}