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Brief Film List
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 No   Year   Film
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  1   1958   Sergeant
  2   1958   Nurse
  3   1959   Teacher
  4   1960   Constable
  5   1961   Regardless
  6   1962   Cruising
  7   1963   Cabby
  8   1964   Jack
  9   1964   Spying             
 10   1965   Cleo
 11   1965   Cowboy
 12   1966   Screaming
 13   1967   Don't Lose Your Head
 14   1967   Follow That Camel
 15   1967   Doctor             
 16   1968   Up The Khyber
 17   1969   Camping
 18   1969   Again Doctor       
 19   1970   Up The Jungle
 20   1970   Loving             
 21   1971   Henry
 22   1971   At Your Convenience 
 23   1972   Matron
 24   1973   Abroad
 25   1973   Girls
 26   1974   Dick
 27   1975   Behind
 28   1976   England
 29   1978   Emmanuelle
 30   1992   Columbus           

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Film Descriptions
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  1  Carry On Sergeant              (B/W, 1958)

     Retiring army officer Sergeant Grimshawe vows to
     win the Star Squad Award with his last batch of
     recruits...until he's landed with a bunch of
     comical misfits!

  2  Carry On Nurse                 (B/W, 1958)

     Accident-prone trainee Nurse Dawson bumbles and
     stumbles through her duties under the watchful
     eye of Matron. Oh, and there's this daffodil...

  3  Carry On Teacher               (B/W, 1959)

     Headmaster Ted Ray wants a promotion to a
     prestigious new school, but the schoolkids don't.
     There's two school inspectors playing good cop,
     bad cop, and he's starting to crack...

  4  Carry On Constable             (B/W, 1960)

     Sergeant Wilkins is looking for the quiet life,
     but his newest lot of recruits are determined to
     cause a rumpus...wherever they go!

  5  Carry On Regardless            (B/W, 1961)

     Out of work for some time, the team set up their
     own employment agency with a difference - if you
     want a job done, you should have done it yourself!

  6  Carry On Cruising              (Col, 1962)

     The team take to the sea in this, the first
     colour film. Cruise captain Sid James is hoping
     for promotion, but a crew of incapable sailors
     threaten to wreck his chances.
   
  7  Carry On Cabby                 (B/W, 1963)

     Peggy James, wife of workaholic taxi driver Sid,
     sets up a rival firm, staffed by buxom female
     drivers, to beat her obsessed husband at his
     own game.

  8  Carry On Jack                  (B/W, 1964)

     Timid Captain Fearless (the doctor said I should
     take a relaxing sea voyage) and (less than) Able
     Seaman Albert Poop-Decker have to face pirates,
     mutiny and the Spanish Armada!

  9  Carry On Spying                (B/W, 1964)

     Secret agent James Bind, double-O Oh!, is on the
    ail of The Fat Man, an enemy agent who stole a
     top secret formula. His assistant, Barbara
     Windsor, has a photographic memory and two other
     assets...

 10  Carry On Cleo                  (Col, 1965)

     A hilarious send-up of Taylor & Burton's
     "Cleopatra" with Caeser, Mark Antony, Queen
     Cleo...and Hengist Pod, the inventor of the
     square wheel!

 11  Carry On Cowboy                (Col, 1965)

     Hapless English plumber Marshall P Nutt is
     mistakenly sent to clean up a very Dodgy City.
     He has to face The Rumpo Kid, who has to face
     saloon owner Belle, Annie Oakley and Chief
     Big Heap (all for different reasons...)

 12  Carry On Screaming             (Col, 1966)

     Superintendent Bung and his hapless assistant
     are on the lookout for monsters in this
     brilliant spoof of classic Hammer horror films.

 13  Carry On Don't Lose Your Head  (Col, 1967)

     That damned elusive Black Fingernail is ruining
     the French revolution...if only he wasn't such
     a master of disguise, he could find himself in
     the clutches of Citizens Camembert and Bidet!

 14  Carry On Follow That Camel     (Col, 1967)

     When society cricketer Jim Dale is blackballed
     after false accusations of cheating, there is
     only one course of action - join the French
     Foreign Legion. But his servant must come too...

 15  Carry On Doctor                (Col, 1967)

     Faith healer Francis Bigger has no need for
     doctors or medicine...until he falls off the
     stage during a performance and finds himself
     in hospital at the mercy of Doctor Tinkle and
     Matron.

 16  Carry On Up The Khyber         (Col, 1968)

     At the height of the British Raj, the Burpas
     are revolting, and the Devils in Skirts are
     wearing lace knickers...can Sir Sidney
     Ruff-Diamond defeat the Khasi of Khalibar and
     save Queen Victoria's Third Foot and Mouth?

 17  Carry On Camping               (Col, 1969)

     Sid and Bernie aren't getting anywhere with
     their girlfriends, when they hit on the idea of
     taking them to a nudist camp - but when they
     get there, they can't take their eyes off the
     young ladies of Chayste Place Finishing School!

 18  Carry On Again Doctor          (Col, 1969)

     Doctor Nookey is kicked out of Long Hampton
     hospital and sent on a medical mission to a
     remote paradise island where Sid James has
     discovered an overnight cure for obesity.

 19  Carry On Up The Jungle         (Col, 1970)

     Noted ornithologist Professor Inigo Tinkle
     is in search of a rare bird...but he gets more
     than he bargained for!

 20  Carry On Loving                (Col, 1970)

     Sid and Sophie Bliss are out to play
     matchmakers with the Wedded Bliss Agency and
     the most sophisticated computer dating service
     ever invented...but shouldn't they get married
     as well?

 21  Carry On Henry                 (Col, 1971)

     HRH Sid James wants to get married again...and
     again...and again. But the Pope wants a cut,
     the King of France wants a war, and the Royal
     Mint has a hole in it!

 22  Carry On At Your Convenience   (Col, 1971)

     The largest compendium of toilet humour ever
     produced sees the staff of WC Boggs at the mercy
     of incompetent management and bolshy unions.
     Only a works outing can save the day.

 23  Carry On Matron                (Col, 1972)

     Hattie Jacques reprises her most famous role
     in this hilarious comedy set in Finisham
     Maternity Hospital. Can she stop Sid James
     and his gang of unprofessional crooks from
     breaking in and stealing a huge hoard of
     birth control pills?

 24  Carry On Abroad                (Col, 1973)

     A package holiday to the paradise island of
     Elsbels turns into a disaster...the hotel isn't
     built yet! Never mind, a night in prison will
     cheer them up.

 25  Carry On Girls                 (Col, 1973)

     Councillor Sidney Fiddler wants to hold a
     beauty contest in a quiet seaside town, but
     will Councillor Prodworthy and the local
     Women's Lib manage to stop him in time?

 26  Carry On Dick                  (Col, 1974)

     Outlaw Dick Turpin (known as "Big Dick" owing
     to the unusual size of his weapon) is streets
     ahead of Captain Fancey's Bow Street Runners.
     Can they catch him?

 27  Carry On Behind                (Col, 1975)

     Eminent archeologist professor Crump is
     excavating a Roman Town in the middle of a
     caravan site at the height of the summer
     season while glamorous assistant Elke Sommer's
     pidgin English is giving him a reputation!

 28  Carry On England               (Col, 1976)

     Hapless army corporal S Melly is sent to run
     an experimental mixed-sex battery during WW2.
     Can he whip privates Ready, Willing and Able
     into shape?

 29  Carry On Emmanuelle            (Col, 1978)

     The wife of a prominent foreign diplomat is
     playing away from home - with anybody and
     anybody. Is there no time for her husband?

 30  Carry On Columbus              (Col, 1992) DF

     The Sultan of Turkey dispatches a spy to stop
     Columbus reaching the new world and bringing
     back countlesseasures for the King and Queen
     of Spain. Sadly, the last every Carry On film.

All films directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers.
Screenplays: 1-6 by Norman Hudis
             7-26 by Talbot Rothwell (Sid Colin co-wrote Spying)
             27-30 by Dave Freeman

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On the way...
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A list of the actors and actresses in each film
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Which parts they played
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What (if anything) they are doing now
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This FAQ was conceived and written by me, Andy Raffle.

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creep in, please email me at missus@raffle.demon.co.uk
and I will stand corrected.

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