Peter Rogers, the series' producer, acknowledged: "Kenneth was worth taking care of, because while he cost very little [.

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The script was signed off by the production company in late March 2008, and "centred on a limousine company ferrying celebrities to an awards show". A second attempt at Carry On Again Nurse came in 1979, after the series left Rank Films and moved to Hemdale.The head of a temp agency ( Sid James) finds that all the people on his books are incapable of performing the odd jobs they are hired for. An intended sub-sequel to the successful Carry On Nurse was renamed and made as Carry On Doctor in 1967.

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Carry On Down Under was considered when, while on holiday in Australia, Gerald Thomas scouted locations and spoke to the Australian Film Commission about a potential film. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Carry On is a British comedy franchise comprising 31 films, four Christmas specials, a television series and stage shows produced between 1958 and 1992. It was to revolve around a hospital set for closure, and set to star original actors Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims, with Sims filling in the role of Matron that was previously held by Hattie Jacques.

Although the films were very often panned by critics, they mostly proved very popular with audiences. Image shows from L to R: Stuart Farquhar (Kenneth Williams), Sadie Tomkins (Barbara Windsor), Vic Flange (Sid James), Cora Flange (Joan Sims), Stanley Blunt (Kenneth Connor).

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Carry On Emmannuelle, inspired by the soft-porn Emmanuelle, brought to an end the original Carry On run.They are, without doubt, the most enduring and possibly the most endearing offspring of British cinema. Carry On Don't Lose Your Head' (1966), 'Carry On Follow That Camel' (1967), 'Carry On Doctor' (1967), 'Carry On Up the Khyber' (1968), 'Carry On Camping' (1969), 'Carry On Again Doctor' (1969), 'Carry On Up the Jungle' (1970), 'Carry On Loving' (1970), 'Carry On Henry' (1971), 'Carry On at Your Convenience' (1971), 'Carry On Matron' (1972), 'Carry On Abroad' (1972), 'Carry On Girls' (1973), 'Carry On Dick' (1974), 'Carry On Behind' (1975), 'Carry On England' (1976), 'That's Carry On! Budgetary constraints meant that a large proportion of the location filming was undertaken close to the studios in and around south Buckinghamshire, including areas of Berkshire and Middlesex. The production was abandoned when finance fell through, and a complete script written by Vince Powell is included in the book Fifty Years of Carry On. Because of a flu epidemic, three police constables straight from college are sent to a local constabularly as temporary replacements.

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The humour of Carry On was in the British comic tradition of music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. However, by the late 1960s, at the height of the series' success, more ambitious plots occasionally necessitated locations further afield, which included Snowdonia National Park, Wales (with the foot of Snowdon standing in for the Khyber Pass in Carry On Up the Khyber), and the beaches of the Sussex coast doubling as Saharan sand dunes in Follow That Camel. Since 2013, StudioCanal has released a number of the Carry On films on Blu-ray, beginning with Carry On Screaming! Carry On Sergeant (1958) is about a group of recruits doing National Service; its title, a command commonly issued by army officers to their sergeants in the course of their routine duties, was in keeping with its setting. He accepts a bet from another sergeant that in the next intake, his last before retirement, his squad will pass out top.In The Spitting Image Book, released in 1985, there is a reference to a fictitious made-for-TV film entitled Carry On Up the Rectum, satirising the transparency of the puns used for Carry On Up the Khyber and possibly Carry On Up the Jungle.