He enhanced his reputation on two series with former Goon Michael Bentine: "After Hours" (ITV, 1958–59) and "It's a Square World" (BBC, 1960–64). His role as Private Chubby Catchpole in the final series of "The Army Game" (ITV 1960) led to an exclusive BBC contract, and the long-running "The Dick Emery Show" (BBC, 1963–81) began. The show involved Emery dressing up as various characters, "a flamboyant cast of comic grotesques". These included the buck-toothed Church of England vicar, sex-starved, menopausal, man-eating spinster Hetty, and Clarence, an outrageously camp man who coined the catchphrase "Hello Honky Tonks". Other roles were gormless denim-clad bovver boy Gaylord (in a double act with his long suffering father, played by several actors including Roy Kinnear) where, each week, he would mess up and utter the catchphrase "Dad, I fink I got it wrong again", the crusty pensioner James Maynard Kitchener Lampwick, College (a genteel tramp whose real name was Lancelot Orpington Penrose) and Mandy, a busty peroxide blonde whose catchphrase, "Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!" (given in response to a seemingly innocent remark made by her interviewer, played by Gordon Clyde, but perceived by her as ribald double entendre), preceded a hefty shove on the shoulder of the interviewer, and a prompt about-turn walk-off with a trip. Michael Grade said of it, "It was clever, pure vaudeville, in a television form." In a sporadic film career he made his debut in the Goons' "The Case of the Mukkinese Battle Horn" (directed by Joseph Sterling, 1954). He also played bungling bank robber Booky Binns in "The Big Job" (directed by Gerald Thomas, 1965) and was known for vocal talents as an array of characters including "The Nowhere Man" Jeremy Hillary Boob, the Mayor of Pepperland and Max, one of the Blue Meanies in the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" (directed by George Dunning, 1968)  Emery appeared in films including as Shingler in "The Fast Lady" (1962), as Peter Sellers's neighbour in "The Wrong Arm Of The Law", as Harry in "Baby Love" (1968), as Mr Bateman in "Loot" (1970) and "Ooh…