GRAEME

Cabby was Talbot Rothwell's first Carry On script. It is rather closer to the formula established by Hudis than his later scripts.

I like the early ones too - but some of the period romps are just priceless, especially Khyber, Jungle and Cleo.

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Azanti

I like Khyber the best.

It even has a quite exciting battle scene at the end.

'Any time is tiffin time!'

GRAEME

I notice in the new Radio Times that Peter Rogers is claiming that he wrote the Carry On plots - any truth in this?

Lots of Carry On stuff on TV on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of Sergeant.

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smudge

I suspect he's thinking of outlines for the writer rather than plots per se.

It is a shame, given the significance of a 50th anniversary, that something new could not be constructed; CARRY ON NIGHT consists of two films (CAMPING and MATRON, the latter not being the series' finest hour) and two repeated dramas (COR BLIMEY! and FANTABULOSA).

A proper critique would have been nice - there are still some people left who can speak on the subject.

Smudge

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Wee Sonny MacGregor

Absolutely right, Smudge. More work seems to have gone into the article in the Radio Times than the actual celebration.

dremble wedge

I see the wonderful Liz Fraser blames the Carry Ons for ruining her career in that RT article.

tanith65

I'm of an age where I was brought up on Carry on Films, along with seaside holidays and the 70's saucy postcard humour....... loved just about all the Carry on films, although by the time they got around to England and Emmanuelle I thought they had lost their way.

My favourites were the historical one's, "Don't lose your head", "Henry", "Dick", and then of course I loved "Screaming" and "Up the Khyber". Of the black and white Carry on's I think my favourites were "Cabby", "Constable" and "Teacher".

Favourite quotes...... probably too many to list. In don't lose your head I though Joan Sims was brilliant and got some great lines, and although not one of her quotesfrom the film .... loved the one at the ball, when Sir Rodney is asked what the ball is in aid of and he replies, "SFA", the response ..... "oh come Sir Rodney, it must be in aid of something", "SFA, stranded French Aristocrats !!!!!!"......... In screaming, I love the scene where Joan Sims thinks Harry H Corbett has been out drinking...... and lays into the "monster", "Look at the state of your teeth..... when did you last get your hair cut" etc.

In Camping I love the line where Joan's mum says she has sore misgivings, and Sid suggests she use talcum powder, and in up the Khyber, love the scene where the embassy is being attacked, and Joan's line "I seem to have got a little plastered"......... as I said, so many great lines........ perhaps the last one I'll mention is Carry on Abroad, with June Whitfield and Sid James, where he offers her a drink, and she says she doesn't drink she tried it once and didn't like it, he offers her a cigarette, and she says she doesn't smoke, she tried it once and didn't like it. He says that's a little unusual, she responds with, no, her daughter is just the same....... where Sid ends with "your only daughter I presume !!!!" may not be quite accurate, but the sentiment is hopefully accurate.

Of the Carry on cast, I think the key team worked well in their own way's. I loved Joan Sims (she was so good at taking on a full range of characters), Sid James and Kenneth Williams were also keen favourites. I thought Hattie Jaques, Terry Thomas, Bernard were all great. Think there were a few "guests" that did not work well, Phil Silvers was one, but on the whole I thought the regulars were a winning combination.

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harryfielder

Phil Silvers..''Follow That Camel'' was out of place in this and it was the first Carry On film I worked on...
But it was great to see Mr Silvers at work....

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rbrooks2008

I think it was in Emmanuelle when Suzanne Danielle arrives at the British Customs desk and is confronted by (IIRC) Albert Moses who played Ranjit Singh in the tv comedy series Mind Your Language, who is cast as the Customs Officer.

Perusing her passport he asks "Are you here for business or pleasure?" to which she gives a reply. He then continues proudly "Because we don't want any foreigner coming to our country!"

That would never be allowed now for fear of offending our own great British family, whatever our hue.

GRAEME

Possibly you meant Leslie Phillips or Terry Scott instead of Terry Thomas? TT was never in any of the Carry Ons.

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MB

I recorded both of the programmes on Saturday night and watched 'Cor Blimey' yesterday. I thought it was quite endearing and I really liked the way they melded 'realistic' and 'Carry on' styling together. It made it seem more believable, somehow.. and certainly, more watchable..It can seem a bit stark, usually, when comedians 'real lives' are explored.

orpheum

Given that there seems to be so much material in the BBC archive regarding the shooting of the films it is a great pity that tjhey did not do a proper documentary about the series.The kenneth Williams programme was on BBC4 only a few weeks ago.Definately a missed opportunity.

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smudge

There was one linking sequence between COR BLIMEY! and FANTABULOSA - some archive interviews cut together? Did anybody record that, and were there any other such sequences between items? If so, I'd love to get copies...

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MB

I thought the linking monologues from the cast were very entertaining.

For a moment I thought it was scripted..

Pompeydave

One of the best lines I remember was from Charles Hawtrey as Chief Big Heap in Carry on Cowboy lamenting the failure of peace talks between the Indians and the white man:

"Oh well, one day peace on, the next day peace off....!"

Also, another vote for 'Carry on Jack' which hardly ever seems to be shown these days, as well as 'Carry on Screaming' ("Frying tonight!") and 'Carry on up the Khyber' ("Felicitacous greetings to your Queen Waterloo").

In fact probably the funniest thing I'd ever seen was Terry Scotts reaction on winding the machine gun into action against the Burpahs, only to hear music instead of bullets firing. He opens the magazine and pulls out an old 78 record. I laughed so much at this I actually wet myself. Well I was only 10......

I actually saw Terry Scott drinking with Eric Sykes in the bar at Waterloo 15 odd years ago after seeing them both in 'Run for your wife' at the Aldwych. I wanted to go over and tell him he owed me a pair of underpants, and then go on to explain why, but I couldn't pluck up the courage. Shame. Too late now I suppose......