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Oh, hello!

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They are the most famous comedy gang
in British big screen history.

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Stop messing about.

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Their antics have put smiles on our
faces for nearly sixty years.

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I seem to have got a little
plastered.

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They brought us sauciness, slapstick,
and dollops of double entendres.

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Oh, what a lovely looking pair.

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You took the words right out of my
mouth.

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But how did these classic Carry On
moments come about?

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When you see this "ad lib",

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that was two weeks of practice.

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It looked wonderful.
Oh, shut up!

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Ha, ha, ha!

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This is the story of a brand that
became a British institution.

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Everybody wanted to do one,

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because everybody knew how much fun
it was going to be.

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Good evening.
I should give it a minute.

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With unseen clips of the Carry On
stars at play.

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Marvellous. I never let her kiss me.

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Extraordinary on-set photos.

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Oh, my goodness! What's this?

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And trips back in time for those who
were there.

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You just loved everybody. You were
at home and comfortable.

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Too much in the sun? When I was
asked to do Carry On Abroad,

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I thought,
"I wonder where we will go?"

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But, of course, we went to the
car park at Pinewood.

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They are great!

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We were very, very fortunate to have
a real ace unit

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of lovely, lovely people.

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Ding Dong, carry on!

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SID JAMES: Ha, ha, ha!

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Welcome to the world-famous
Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

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This is where the Carry On magic was
created.

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Today, Shirley Eaton, the glamorous
star of the very first Carry On,

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is returning to where this remarkable
story began.

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Oh, I love Pinewood.

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I love Pinewood, because it's my
second home.

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And I am really looking forward
to it.

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Here we go.

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There it is.

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Oh, gosh, what memories.

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Are you the manageress?
No, I'm Nora.

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My name is Mary.

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Here we are.

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Like the old days.

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We are going under the arches.

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Ha, ha, it's lovely!

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Evidence of our favourite Carry On
capers is everywhere at Pinewood,

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with the mention of the men who made
it all happen.

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KENNETH WILLIAMS: Infamy!
They've all got it in for me!

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JOAN SIMS: He didn't half crack
that one, did he not?

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It's a lovely plaque
of Peter Rogers,

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celebrating him producing films
since 1951.

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Because those films, my goodness,

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people have loved them over the
years, haven't they?

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KENNETH WILLIAMS:
No, stop messing about.

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(SID JAMES LAUGHS)
BARBARA WINDSOR: Saucy!

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Of course, Peter couldn't have made
such funny old films

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without Gerald Thomas, the director.

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Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas made
their first film together in 1956.

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Two years later, at Pinewood,

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they would form a partnership
that must have been created
in comedy heaven.

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Well, Peter Rogers really was
a writer, first and foremost.

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He always saw himself as a writer
throughout his career and life.

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He just became a producer
by default, really.

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He would buy up scripts
of other people's

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and eventually make them into films.

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Gerald Thomas was an editor.

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He'd worked on The Third Man and
great films in the '40s, '50s.

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Doctor in the House at Pinewood.
So they were a perfect team,

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because they knew their business and
they knew what they wanted to do.

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Rogers and Thomas would perfect the
art of churning out films speedily

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and always on budget.

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But they also kept a keen eye on what
was going on in the world outside the
studio walls.

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This was the black and white Britain
of the late 1950s.

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Memories of the Second World War may
still have been strong,

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but a new generation looked forward
to a brighter future

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where we'd never had it so good.

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Rationing and wartime hardship were
finally over

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and National Service was coming
to an end.

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A new, more open Britain was ready
for a laugh.

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It was time to put its privates on
parade.

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All right, you horrible lot.
Get ready.

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After seeing that a comedy called
The Army Game had brought in millions
of viewers to ITV...

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Right flush! Eyes front!

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..Peter Rogers recalled an idea for
a film about a bunch of raw recruits

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thrown into National Service.

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Script writer, Norman Hudis,
was brought into work it up.

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We carried the characters forward

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into my conception of a typically
British situation,

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where a bunch of incompetents,

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resentful of being in the army
at all...

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I mean, where is the war?
Everybody has gone home.

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Halt!

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HALT!

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So sorry. I was miles away.

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The title of the film would spring
from a throwaway line.

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Carry on, Sergeant. By happy
accident, a brand had been born.

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Rogers and Thomas looked to the stars
of the small screen for their cast,

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with a lead role an Opportunity
Knocking for TV personality

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and future game show host,
Bob Monkhouse.

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Did you see? Did you hear?
What? Where?

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She called to me from a laundry van.

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Bob's love interest would be the
first pin-up girl of the Carry Ons,

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21-year-old Shirley Eaton.

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I can't help being sexy.

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(LAUGHS)

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I think it's funny when people call
me a sex symbol.

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I was the girl next door in those
films, really.

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If I happen to appear sexy,
that's not my fault. (LAUGHS)

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I am Sergeant Grimshaw
and this is Corporal Copping. Right?

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Straight from a remarkably similar
role in The Army Game,

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was future Dr Who, William Hartnell.

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I am a quiet, reasonable,
humane man.

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I know, my mother told me.

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NORMAN HUDIS:
Peter was good at casting.

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He had a lot of luck.

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That luck included the first Carry On
outings for Charles Hawtrey...

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The Sergeant doesn't seem
to like us. I wonder why.

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..Kenneth Williams...
Look at this, man.

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You've nothing to complain of.
Look at the suit they gave me.

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..and Hattie Jacques.
And at the heart of the action,

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a 40-year-old fledgling star,

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who would also become
a Carry On stalwart.

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Oooooh, Nora!

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The quiet man of comedy,

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Kenneth Connor was classically
trained

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at the Central School of Speech and
Drama in London.

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He became a regular on BBC Radio,

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before starring on the big screen in
the Ealing classic, The Ladykillers.

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Get it out of here!
Driver,

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I insist that you do something to
stop this vicious brute.

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This is no business of mine.
Keep out of this, I'm warning you!

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Connor's gift for comic voices also
made him a favourite on the Goons.

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This is the BBC Light Programme.

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Oh, my leg!

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It's gone below the waist!

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What's happened? Why aren't you on
the stage?

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I've broken my right leg. Only one?
Get back on the stage, you idiot!

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Ken Connor was so clever.

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I'd worked with Ken on radio,
where he did dozens of voices.

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They only had to hire one person,

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because he would play every voice
that you have ever heard.

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He was quite brilliant.

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Thanks to Kenneth and the gang,
Sergeant was a surprise hit.

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It made its money back in the first
weekend

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and became the third most successful
film at the British box office
in 1958.

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The groundwork was being laid

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for a comedy campaign that was
destined to carry on and on.

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After the success of Carry On
Sergeant,

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producer, Peter Rogers, and director,
Gerald Thomas,

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quickly realised that they were onto
something good.

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If they could keep their eye on the
pennies, surely the pounds would look
after themselves.

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Well, if you are looking at Peter
Rogers as a producer...

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..you would have to say,

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"cautious" would be the first word
that one would summon up.

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He didn't splash money about at all.

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He was conscientious.

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Profit was king, and Rogers would
take a royal pride

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in the Carry On films' low budgets
and short schedules,

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aided by a sharp director who had
started out in the cutting room.

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Gerry Thomas? Clinical.

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He had edited the show before it was
even shot, I am quite sure.

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There was one instance where I go
into a door.

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I said to him, "When I get to the
door, can I just turn round?"

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And he said, "No, as soon as you
touch the door handle,

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I've cut, I'm outside, and you are
coming out."

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He had already cut that shot before
he'd filmed it.

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That was the way they were made.

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That was it.
So I shut up after that.

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After the success of Sergeant,

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Rogers and Thomas decided on a
uniform approach for the follow-up.

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Supposing I had been on it?

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In one of his shrewder moments,
the adorable Mr Rogers said,

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"Well, they are all screaming for
another movie.

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Your wife is a nurse, isn't she?"

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He said, "So it's Carry On Nurse,
it's obvious."

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Hudis quickly turned to wife, Rita,
for inspiration.

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Over here, Mr York.

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I did that script in ten days.

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You've given one of these before?

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Oh, good gracious, hundreds!
Get it down now.

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Other end, nurse.

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Plenty of material from Rita,
and exaggerated invention by me.

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Hurry up, nurse. There are other
things for you to do, you know.

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Yes, sister.

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The Carry On creators were
quick to work out

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that the public loved humour from
everyday life,

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sweeping up with a dose of comedy
intended for all.

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What's going on?
Matron's round.

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I don't care if she's triangular.

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To this day, everyone's got
experience of being in hospital.

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So you base the comedy around
familiarity,

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so you don't have to waste any time
explaining what is going on.

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You can go straight
into the bed pan comedy

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and you start getting the laughs.
Ha, ha, ha!

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After his debut in Sergeant,

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Nurse saw Charles Hawtrey tucked up
in bed.

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(PIANO MUSIC)

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The 44-year-old was already
an old pro,

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his first film appearance being at
the age of seven in a silent movie.

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Hawtrey took his stage name
from a Knight of the Realm,

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Sir Charles Hawtrey,

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and encouraged the suggestion
that he was his son,

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distancing himself from his working
class roots.

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He grew up on the stage,

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before venturing into the world of
Ealing Comedies.

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(BAGPIPE MUSIC)
He is up here, all right!

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Sounds like it.

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No matter what I wrote, he would
quietly put it aside,

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and say, "Thank you, Norman" and
then ad lib about half an hour.

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Charles Hawtrey would make
23 Carry On appearances.

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Just one less than an actress who
would become known as the first lady
of Carry On.

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Although a RADA graduate, Joan Sims
found life as a jobbing actor tough,

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and spent years in repertory theatre
before finally breaking into TV.

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She joined the Carry On gang for the
first time on the set of Nurse.

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Yes, sister? I thought I told you
to ring the bell.

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I did, sister. Then why are the
visitors still here?

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I don't know. I...

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(AMBULANCE BELL GETS LOUDER)

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Oh, crikey.

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Joan Sims was a fascinating woman.

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She was gentle, actually,

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a very gentle personality
and genuinely funny off screen.

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And raising more temperatures in her
second Carry On, Shirley Eaton.

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You know, nursing training is right
out of date.

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What do you mean?
They should have taught you

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that there isn't always a medical
reason for a fast pulse.

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Carry On Nurse, for me, was my
favourite role

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and my favourite film
out of all the Carry Ons.

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See that Mr York doesn't fall over
in the bath.

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In Carry On Nurse, I discovered
I was two months pregnant with my
first son.

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Which was terribly exciting, and all
the cast were lovely with me.

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That's when the community feeling
started between us all,

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because, in Carry On Nurse,
nobody was the star.

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Everybody was the star.

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It was really very shared.

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It was a big cast, wasn't it?

239
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And joining that gang was the suave,
sophisticated Leslie Phillips,

240
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whose character, Jack Bell, would
deliver the very first Carry On
catchphrase.

241
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Hello, chaps.
Mr Bell?

242
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Ding Dong, you are not wrong.
This way, please.

243
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NORMAN HUDIS: I wrote it in for him.

244
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He said, "Ding dong!" And it stuck.

245
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Mr Bell.
Ding dong. Carry on.

246
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With a combination of returning cast,
catchphrases and surgical slapstick,

247
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the Carry Ons were starting to take
shape.

248
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Not you, you idiot. Him.

249
00:14:04,730 --> 00:14:06,930
I don't think I will have gas
after all.

250
00:14:06,930 --> 00:14:10,090
The laughing gas scene is
beautifully acted.

251
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Kenneth Williams walks in, who has
just learned how to be a surgeon,

252
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supposedly from a book.
(LAUGHS)

253
00:14:15,130 --> 00:14:18,330
Better give him some more gas. We
can't have him giggling all through.

254
00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:20,210
Most distracting.
I agree.

255
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(LAUGHS)

256
00:14:22,250 --> 00:14:24,370
What's the matter with you?
Nothing.

257
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Let's get the knives. (GIGGLES)

258
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(SNIGGERS)

259
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(LAUGHS)

260
00:14:33,410 --> 00:14:36,930
And you get a real sense they are
enjoying themselves in that scene.

261
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Just blokes running amok, really.

262
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(LAUGHTER)
What happens if anything goes wrong?

263
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(LAUGHS) We will have to amputate
your leg.

264
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(HYSTERICAL LAUGHTER)

265
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But writer, Norman Hudis, had saved
the biggest laugh till last.

266
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We have to carry out
just one final test.

267
00:15:00,290 --> 00:15:02,850
It will only take a few minutes.
That's all right.

268
00:15:02,850 --> 00:15:06,250
A now famous punch line was a late
addition to the script,

269
00:15:06,250 --> 00:15:09,690
thanks to a real-life story told by
Hudis's mother in law.

270
00:15:09,690 --> 00:15:11,730
She told me this joke.

271
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We screamed with laughter.

272
00:15:15,130 --> 00:15:17,050
And I tucked it away.

273
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(KNOCK)
Come in.

274
00:15:20,250 --> 00:15:22,690
Colonel, whatever is going on?

275
00:15:22,690 --> 00:15:26,650
Come, come, matron, surely you have
seen a temperature taken like this
before?

276
00:15:26,650 --> 00:15:30,210
Oh... (LAUGHS)
Yes, Colonel, many times.

277
00:15:30,210 --> 00:15:33,250
But never with a daffodil.

278
00:15:35,210 --> 00:15:37,250
Comedy, often...

279
00:15:38,330 --> 00:15:43,290
..it's a question of remembering
a joke rather than inventing it.

280
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Carry On Nurse hit the funny bone,
with British cinema goers buying over
ten million tickets.

281
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Rogers and Thomas swiftly signed
a five-year contract

282
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to deliver more of the same.

283
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The decade had been dominated by
Ealing comedies like The Ladykillers.

284
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But by 1958, the fun-packed Carry On
films had replaced them

285
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in the public's hearts.

286
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Ealing had had its last laugh.

287
00:16:12,050 --> 00:16:15,010
The way was clear for the new kid on
the block...

288
00:16:15,010 --> 00:16:18,330
(MUFFLED WHISTLE)
..and a third Carry On.

289
00:16:19,170 --> 00:16:21,090
They've taken the pea.

290
00:16:21,090 --> 00:16:24,690
Like all the scripts that Norman
Hudis wrote, there was a social
consciousness.

291
00:16:24,690 --> 00:16:27,610
And Carry On Teacher's main aim

292
00:16:27,610 --> 00:16:29,970
was about the punishment in schools
and the caning.

293
00:16:29,970 --> 00:16:33,170
There is only one thing to do
to save yourself. Whack.

294
00:16:33,170 --> 00:16:38,210
Extraordinary theory. You bend
a child double in order to give it
an upright character.

295
00:16:38,210 --> 00:16:40,290
That's actually a really clever line

296
00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:44,370
in a film which is considered to be
a bit of a knockabout comedy.

297
00:16:48,450 --> 00:16:49,690
(GIGGLING)

298
00:16:49,690 --> 00:16:51,650
After a bit part in Nurse,

299
00:16:51,650 --> 00:16:54,570
actress Rosalind Knight was promoted
to head girl

300
00:16:54,570 --> 00:16:57,730
with a leading role in a new Carry On
classroom comedy.

301
00:16:57,730 --> 00:17:01,770
They offered me this glorious part
of Felicity Wheeler,

302
00:17:01,770 --> 00:17:07,130
this very humourless, intense OFSTED
education inspector.

303
00:17:07,130 --> 00:17:10,370
Would you care to leave now, Miss
Wheeler? Mr Grigg can join us later.

304
00:17:10,370 --> 00:17:12,770
No, thank you.

305
00:17:12,770 --> 00:17:15,930
On the very first day of shooting,

306
00:17:15,930 --> 00:17:18,930
they came up and they said,

307
00:17:18,930 --> 00:17:23,730
"We are ahead of schedule, so we are
going to film the scene

308
00:17:23,730 --> 00:17:28,370
with you and Kenneth in the physics
laboratory this afternoon,

309
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where you see him and fall in love
with him."

310
00:17:30,890 --> 00:17:35,930
I said, "But I've never met him
before! We've never rehearsed!"

311
00:17:35,930 --> 00:17:39,250
They said "Never mind, that's what
we are going to do."

312
00:17:39,250 --> 00:17:41,610
Please don't stop, Mr Adams.
Thank you, sir.

313
00:17:42,450 --> 00:17:47,090
I was aghast, and went away and had
to learn the words, you see.

314
00:17:47,090 --> 00:17:50,170
They hadn't thought of that,
that one hadn't prepared it,

315
00:17:50,170 --> 00:17:52,850
because it wasn't on the schedule.
As I told you...

316
00:17:52,850 --> 00:17:56,450
The camera was on Kenneth first.
And I watched him.

317
00:17:56,450 --> 00:17:59,570
I hope to arrange an outing
to a suitable...

318
00:17:59,570 --> 00:18:05,530
And I thought, "Oh, look, his hair
is rather nice and curly.

319
00:18:08,690 --> 00:18:13,210
He's got actually very nice
big brown eyes."

320
00:18:13,210 --> 00:18:14,730
Gulp!

321
00:18:14,730 --> 00:18:19,530
"And his nose. Look at his nose,
it's a wonderful shape."

322
00:18:19,530 --> 00:18:21,770
(HIGH-PITCHED) Settle down now,
please.

323
00:18:23,450 --> 00:18:27,930
And I think that's when I learned
to act, properly.

324
00:18:27,930 --> 00:18:30,810
To hell with this posh drama school
I'd been to.

325
00:18:30,810 --> 00:18:32,970
Hmm, yes, my latest.

326
00:18:32,970 --> 00:18:36,690
But it wasn't just Rosalind Knight
keeping a close eye on proceedings.

327
00:18:36,690 --> 00:18:40,890
In innocent times, the British Film
Board had the script under strict
supervision.

328
00:18:40,890 --> 00:18:44,330
I don't believe in repressing
natural instincts. Very unhealthy.

329
00:18:44,330 --> 00:18:46,570
Even the very first one,
Carry On Sergeant,

330
00:18:46,570 --> 00:18:48,770
there were issues with the censors.

331
00:18:48,770 --> 00:18:50,690
The main problem with Teacher

332
00:18:50,690 --> 00:18:53,890
was the pronunciation of Joan Sims's
character, Miss Allcock.

333
00:18:53,890 --> 00:18:56,650
My theory on music teaching is...
Allcock.

334
00:18:58,130 --> 00:19:01,130
The censors were not happy, but they

335
00:19:01,130 --> 00:19:03,330
Miss Allcock.

336
00:19:08,530 --> 00:19:10,130
Ding dong.

337
00:19:12,290 --> 00:19:16,250
The interior sets for Carry On
Teacher were created at
Pinewood Studios.

338
00:19:16,250 --> 00:19:20,730
But the outside shots were filmed
at Drayton Green Primary in Ealing.

339
00:19:20,730 --> 00:19:25,090
55 years later, Rosalind Knight is
going back to school.

340
00:19:27,650 --> 00:19:30,890
Well, it feels extraordinary to be
back here.

341
00:19:30,890 --> 00:19:35,810
This is where the beginning of Carry
On Teacher was filmed.

342
00:19:43,010 --> 00:19:44,970
(SCHOOL BELL)

343
00:19:49,250 --> 00:19:54,530
I do remember striding forward in an
officious way with Leslie Phillips,

344
00:19:54,530 --> 00:19:59,010
sniffing out the building as an
inspector of education.

345
00:20:00,130 --> 00:20:02,370
How do you do?
Welcome, Mr Grigg.

346
00:20:02,370 --> 00:20:06,290
None of us had the remotest idea

347
00:20:06,290 --> 00:20:08,970
that it would be watched for years.

348
00:20:11,050 --> 00:20:15,250
It's absolutely amazing. Amazing.

349
00:20:15,250 --> 00:20:19,570
But here it still is. Even that it's
still here is amazing.

350
00:20:19,570 --> 00:20:22,450
Yes. Let alone that I am still here!

351
00:20:24,810 --> 00:20:27,970
As Britain said goodbye to the 1950s,

352
00:20:27,970 --> 00:20:31,450
fans were entranced by this new
comedy kid in town.

353
00:20:31,450 --> 00:20:34,650
With another film already set to go
into production,

354
00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:38,050
Carry On was ready to swing into an
exciting new decade.

355
00:20:51,490 --> 00:20:56,330
By 1960, Britain was entering a
colourful new era of hope and change.

356
00:20:59,170 --> 00:21:03,130
After three box office hits,
the Carry Ons had become comedy
favourites.

357
00:21:03,130 --> 00:21:06,170
But a new member of the gang was
about to take their appeal

358
00:21:06,170 --> 00:21:08,170
to a new level.

359
00:21:12,130 --> 00:21:15,330
For many, the man born
Solomon Joel Cohen

360
00:21:15,330 --> 00:21:17,930
would be the nation's favourite
Carry On star.

361
00:21:20,650 --> 00:21:25,290
Although he would become known as the
archetypal cheeky cockney in film and
on TV,

362
00:21:25,290 --> 00:21:29,730
Sid James was born in Johannesburg,
South Africa in 1913.

363
00:21:29,730 --> 00:21:31,930
A hairdresser in his homeland,

364
00:21:31,930 --> 00:21:35,290
he arrived in England on Christmas
Day 1946,

365
00:21:35,290 --> 00:21:37,570
determined to make his mark
as an actor.

366
00:21:38,810 --> 00:21:41,010
After years in the theatre and revue,

367
00:21:41,010 --> 00:21:43,290
Sid James' on-screen talents

368
00:21:43,290 --> 00:21:46,130
finally came to the fore
in The Lavender Hill Mob.

369
00:21:46,130 --> 00:21:49,010
Who are you? Take those things away.
I am not hungry.

370
00:21:49,010 --> 00:21:52,850
Name of Lackery Wood, otherwise
known as Sawdust Steve, the
Wandsworth boy.

371
00:21:54,210 --> 00:21:58,290
James had become known to millions in
television's Hancock's Half Hour.

372
00:21:59,850 --> 00:22:02,290
But it was his casting
in Carry On Constable

373
00:22:02,290 --> 00:22:04,450
that would earn him his comedy
stripes.

374
00:22:04,450 --> 00:22:07,290
Welcome. Welcome!

375
00:22:08,570 --> 00:22:11,170
What a lovely sight, eh, Thurston?
Not half, Sergeant.

376
00:22:11,170 --> 00:22:14,890
Looking at that performance,
it's very atypical Sid.

377
00:22:14,890 --> 00:22:18,770
It's quite an authority figure, it's
quite stern and it's quite grounded.

378
00:22:18,770 --> 00:22:22,930
He's a professional man.
It's just a routine police patrol.

379
00:22:22,930 --> 00:22:24,850
Yes, Sergeant.

380
00:22:26,570 --> 00:22:29,690
Just stay here, you lot, and
remember you are still on parade.

381
00:22:32,290 --> 00:22:34,450
Flu epidemic at peak!

382
00:22:34,450 --> 00:22:36,690
Searching for inspiration for the
plot,

383
00:22:36,690 --> 00:22:40,890
writer, Norman Hudis, drew on the flu
pandemic of 1958,

384
00:22:40,890 --> 00:22:43,770
with Leslie Phillips and Kenneths
Williams and Connor

385
00:22:43,770 --> 00:22:46,370
drafted in as emergency special
constables.

386
00:22:46,370 --> 00:22:48,250
At ease.

387
00:22:48,250 --> 00:22:51,890
I am Benson, Sergeant. This is
Constable Potter and this is
Constable Constable.

388
00:22:53,330 --> 00:22:56,370
Who?
Charlie Constable.

389
00:22:56,370 --> 00:22:59,130
Oh, I get it. That's your name.

390
00:22:59,130 --> 00:23:03,050
Yeah. And I am fed up with it.
Everybody keeps taking the mickey.

391
00:23:03,050 --> 00:23:05,570
Nobody will do that here,
Constable Constable.

392
00:23:05,570 --> 00:23:07,930
I am very pleased to hear it,
Sergeant Sergeant.

393
00:23:09,490 --> 00:23:11,410
Yes.

394
00:23:11,410 --> 00:23:14,930
The film saw a welcome return for
Charles Hawtrey,

395
00:23:14,930 --> 00:23:19,050
whose comic delivery was beginning
to register with director,
Gerald Thomas.

396
00:23:19,050 --> 00:23:21,970
Charles Hawtrey, from the very first
film, Carry On Sergeant,

397
00:23:21,970 --> 00:23:24,410
when he's missing from the barrack
room and runs in,

398
00:23:24,410 --> 00:23:26,650
having been locked in a toilet
somewhere.

399
00:23:26,650 --> 00:23:28,570
I am so sorry. Hello.

400
00:23:28,570 --> 00:23:30,530
Gerry Thomas was very quick to
notice

401
00:23:30,530 --> 00:23:32,410
that was a really good moment.

402
00:23:32,410 --> 00:23:34,570
By 1960, Carry On Constable,

403
00:23:34,570 --> 00:23:37,450
they really began to milk that
"Oh, hello!" moment.

404
00:23:37,450 --> 00:23:39,530
(SHOUTING AND ARGUING)

405
00:23:39,530 --> 00:23:41,570
Hello.
Hello, Gorse.

406
00:23:41,570 --> 00:23:44,770
Sorry I'm late, Sergeant.
But I just couldn't leave home

407
00:23:44,770 --> 00:23:48,170
without bringing something bright
and gay for the poor constables.

408
00:23:50,210 --> 00:23:53,170
Sid James joined his Constable
colleagues on set

409
00:23:53,170 --> 00:23:56,690
for the first time on 11th November,
1959,

410
00:23:56,690 --> 00:24:00,490
filming outside the Carnegie Public
Library in West Ealing.

411
00:24:00,490 --> 00:24:03,890
Potter, you have got to try and pull
yourself together. Yes, sergeant.

412
00:24:03,890 --> 00:24:06,530
Every thing you have done has been
a mess. Yes, sergeant.

413
00:24:08,130 --> 00:24:11,490
One actress who would form a close
relationship with Sid

414
00:24:11,490 --> 00:24:14,450
was his co-star from TV series,
Bless This House.

415
00:24:14,450 --> 00:24:17,370
A similar age to Sid's own daughter,

416
00:24:17,370 --> 00:24:21,930
Sally Geeson would also appear
alongside him in later
Carry On films.

417
00:24:23,770 --> 00:24:26,530
It feels very special to be here
today.

418
00:24:26,530 --> 00:24:30,690
To think this is where Sid started
his career in the Carry On films.

419
00:24:30,690 --> 00:24:32,650
Carry On Constable.

420
00:24:33,730 --> 00:24:35,970
You are late, Constable.
Yes, Sergeant.

421
00:24:35,970 --> 00:24:38,170
Why? We had a bit of trouble with
the shower.

422
00:24:38,170 --> 00:24:40,690
Looks like I'LL have a bit of
trouble with the shower.

423
00:24:40,690 --> 00:24:43,570
Oh, priceless innuendo. How witty.
Quiet, Gorse!

424
00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:46,130
Do you know that originally they
wanted Ted Wray

425
00:24:46,130 --> 00:24:48,290
for this part
of the sergeant?

426
00:24:48,290 --> 00:24:50,570
Ted Wray wasn't available.

427
00:24:50,570 --> 00:24:53,050
So, luckily, Sid was,
and Sid did it.

428
00:24:53,050 --> 00:24:55,130
And that was the start of
everything.

429
00:24:55,130 --> 00:24:57,650
I think the public, the audience,

430
00:24:57,650 --> 00:24:59,610
liked Sid right from the start,

431
00:24:59,610 --> 00:25:02,130
because he had this natural way
about him.

432
00:25:02,130 --> 00:25:04,330
There was nothing pretentious
about him.

433
00:25:04,330 --> 00:25:07,170
I think every bloke in the street
would say, "Good old Sid".

434
00:25:07,170 --> 00:25:10,010
They could identify with him.
And women would say,

435
00:25:10,010 --> 00:25:12,010
"He's just like my husband."

436
00:25:12,010 --> 00:25:14,770
I said, "Right, I am off duty now.

437
00:25:14,770 --> 00:25:19,410
Anybody cares to come outside,
I will take you on, one at a time."

438
00:25:19,410 --> 00:25:22,170
What happened, Sergeant?
They knocked my head off.

439
00:25:23,050 --> 00:25:25,170
(LAUGHS)
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)

440
00:25:25,170 --> 00:25:27,010
Sid was a fantastic actor.

441
00:25:27,010 --> 00:25:29,130
And he had this wonderful gift

442
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:32,250
of being able to look as if he was
just strolling through it.

443
00:25:32,250 --> 00:25:34,290
And, of course, he wasn't, really.

444
00:25:34,290 --> 00:25:38,770
He came onto that set, and it just
looked like a doddle to him.
But it wasn't.

445
00:25:38,770 --> 00:25:40,770
I have been in the force
a long time.

446
00:25:40,770 --> 00:25:43,770
I still remember the bloomers I made
when I was green as grass.

447
00:25:43,770 --> 00:25:47,170
What's that got to do with it?
It's got everything to do with it.

448
00:25:48,650 --> 00:25:49,890
Sir.

449
00:25:49,890 --> 00:25:53,530
I think Sid's performance in
Carry On Constable was so great.

450
00:25:53,530 --> 00:25:55,410
He just fitted in like a glove.

451
00:25:55,410 --> 00:25:58,050
Straight away, Gerry Thomas and
Peter Rogers said,

452
00:25:58,050 --> 00:26:00,250
"He's the man that we need,
definitely."

453
00:26:05,370 --> 00:26:07,450
With four hits in three years,

454
00:26:07,450 --> 00:26:10,250
Carry On had become a firm favourite
at the pictures.

455
00:26:10,250 --> 00:26:13,170
Soon, fans were writing in with their
own ideas.

456
00:26:13,170 --> 00:26:16,730
From Carry On Pig Farming to Carry On
Stamp Collecting.

457
00:26:18,690 --> 00:26:20,890
But, keen to push his own envelope,

458
00:26:20,890 --> 00:26:24,810
writer, Norman Hudis, would find the
inspiration for the fifth film
himself.

459
00:26:24,810 --> 00:26:27,050
Hello, hello. Isn't it a lovely
morning?

460
00:26:27,050 --> 00:26:29,570
Anything on the cards?
Nothing!

461
00:26:29,570 --> 00:26:34,530
There was an organisation completely
like the Carry On Regardless office.

462
00:26:34,530 --> 00:26:37,210
It was called Universal Aunts.

463
00:26:37,210 --> 00:26:39,490
If you wanted something done

464
00:26:39,490 --> 00:26:43,890
that was inconvenient for you to do,
but not illegal or anything,

465
00:26:43,890 --> 00:26:48,690
you went to this organisation...
Helping Hands Limited.

466
00:26:48,690 --> 00:26:52,130
Helping Hands employment agency had
a variety of jobs

467
00:26:52,130 --> 00:26:54,490
to keep the cast of Carry On
Regardless busy.

468
00:26:54,490 --> 00:27:00,210
So we all had our own scenes, which
was lovely, where we were disparate.

469
00:27:00,210 --> 00:27:02,490
Each one had something.

470
00:27:02,490 --> 00:27:05,010
(IMPERSONATES FLY) Buzzzzz!

471
00:27:12,090 --> 00:27:13,610
(LAUGHTER)

472
00:27:14,770 --> 00:27:18,570
Over the years, the Carry Ons would
bring us many a bubbly blonde.

473
00:27:18,570 --> 00:27:21,930
But Liz Fraser was the first to take
on the role.

474
00:27:21,930 --> 00:27:24,010
Well, she didn't have much on
at the time.

475
00:27:24,850 --> 00:27:27,050
It feels so good.

476
00:27:27,050 --> 00:27:28,770
I was very slim then.

477
00:27:28,770 --> 00:27:31,210
Yes, doesn't look bad, either.

478
00:27:31,210 --> 00:27:33,170
That was a very funny one.

479
00:27:33,170 --> 00:27:36,610
I hid myself in a wardrobe or
something, and his wife came in.

480
00:27:36,610 --> 00:27:39,170
Precisely.
Can we just explain?

481
00:27:39,170 --> 00:27:42,530
Helen, what on earth are you doing
here?

482
00:27:42,530 --> 00:27:46,690
Regardless had all the riotous high
jinks of the earlier films...

483
00:27:46,690 --> 00:27:48,930
I can explain... My braces!

484
00:27:48,930 --> 00:27:52,530
..but was also the first to have
what was to become a Carry On staple,

485
00:27:52,530 --> 00:27:54,530
a slapstick ending.

486
00:27:56,410 --> 00:27:59,690
I loved the end, where we all hosed
each other down,

487
00:27:59,690 --> 00:28:03,010
and it didn't matter whether your
hair was all right or your make-up.

488
00:28:04,850 --> 00:28:08,570
That was the last scene.
So we had a ball with that.

489
00:28:08,570 --> 00:28:12,370
They just said, "Go on, fall over,
hose each other."

490
00:28:12,370 --> 00:28:14,890
So we were quite vicious
with the hoses.

491
00:28:14,890 --> 00:28:17,970
We would do it right in the face of
one person, and then another.

492
00:28:17,970 --> 00:28:20,810
We all were slipping over.
That's my favourite scene.

493
00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:30,010
By the early '60s, Carry On capers
had become big draws

494
00:28:30,010 --> 00:28:32,170
and all on small budgets.

495
00:28:32,170 --> 00:28:35,330
Regardless had been made for just
£100,000.

496
00:28:35,330 --> 00:28:37,210
But for the next film,

497
00:28:37,210 --> 00:28:39,370
the producers really pushed
the boat out...

498
00:28:41,370 --> 00:28:43,570
..for the launch of a Carry On
in colour.

499
00:28:44,730 --> 00:28:48,010
We're moving. Oh, Glad!

500
00:28:48,010 --> 00:28:50,730
Oh, Flo! We're moving!

501
00:28:50,730 --> 00:28:54,010
Following in the wake of a trend for
cruise liner holidays,

502
00:28:54,010 --> 00:28:57,770
Carry On Cruising set sail with some
familiar faces on board.

503
00:28:57,770 --> 00:29:02,210
Well, gentlemen, here we are just
about to set sail on another cruise.

504
00:29:02,210 --> 00:29:04,890
It's a lovely, colourful
in-more-ways-than-one film.

505
00:29:04,890 --> 00:29:07,170
Who are you?
Your first officer, sir.

506
00:29:07,170 --> 00:29:11,090
Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and
Sid James are your three principles.

507
00:29:11,090 --> 00:29:13,290
(LAUGHS)
What are you laughing at?

508
00:29:14,650 --> 00:29:16,650
Nothing. (SNIGGERS)

509
00:29:19,490 --> 00:29:22,530
But one member of the gang had been
left at home.

510
00:29:22,530 --> 00:29:25,250
Charles Hawtrey had demanded
top billing

511
00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:27,330
and a star on his dressing room door.

512
00:29:27,330 --> 00:29:30,090
So he was promptly dropped by
producer, Peter Rogers,

513
00:29:30,090 --> 00:29:32,330
who replaced him
by throwing into the mix

514
00:29:32,330 --> 00:29:35,610
comedian, Lance Percival, at a
fraction of the cost.

515
00:29:35,610 --> 00:29:38,490
(SNIFFS) Hmm! Blimey.

516
00:29:38,490 --> 00:29:40,850
Smells like a Babylonian boozer's
bedroom.

517
00:29:42,010 --> 00:29:44,330
The film might have lacked Hawtrey's
hellos,

518
00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:47,570
but Sid James was still at the helm
and in command.

519
00:29:47,570 --> 00:29:49,050
Couch.

520
00:29:49,050 --> 00:29:51,610
Couch, not crouch, you fool!
Get over there.

521
00:29:51,610 --> 00:29:54,690
Like every Norman Hudis script,
there is a figure of authority.

522
00:29:54,690 --> 00:29:57,810
And it's Sid James again, playing
quite a serious role, really,

523
00:29:57,810 --> 00:30:00,170
with the goons around him.

524
00:30:00,170 --> 00:30:02,810
To me, you look like disaster
on six legs.

525
00:30:02,810 --> 00:30:06,770
Prove I am wrong.
That's all I ask. Clear?

526
00:30:06,770 --> 00:30:08,930
As day.
As an X-Ray.

527
00:30:08,930 --> 00:30:10,890
As soup.

528
00:30:10,890 --> 00:30:14,370
Playing first officer, Leonard March
Banks, was Kenneth Williams.

529
00:30:16,650 --> 00:30:18,650
The son of an East End barber,

530
00:30:18,650 --> 00:30:22,090
Williams discovered a love of music
and poetry at an early age.

531
00:30:22,090 --> 00:30:26,210
Demobbed after serving in Singapore
during the Second World War,

532
00:30:26,210 --> 00:30:30,050
he joined a touring theatre company
before winning bit parts in films.

533
00:30:30,050 --> 00:30:33,250
I suppose I shouldn't have gone on
holiday. (LAUGHS) No...

534
00:30:33,250 --> 00:30:37,650
Acting alongside Laurence Olivier in
The Beggars' Opera in 1953.

535
00:30:37,650 --> 00:30:39,450
Yes, Captain.

536
00:30:42,210 --> 00:30:44,890
Williams' comedy potential first
popped up

537
00:30:44,890 --> 00:30:47,170
when he joined the cast of Hancock's
Half Hour.

538
00:30:47,170 --> 00:30:49,010
Good evening.

539
00:30:50,330 --> 00:30:53,050
The series would give him
his life-long catchphrase.

540
00:30:53,050 --> 00:30:56,090
They will think I've got another
woman up here or something.

541
00:30:56,090 --> 00:30:58,090
No, stop messing about.

542
00:30:59,170 --> 00:31:01,650
Carry On Cruising would be the sixth

543
00:31:01,650 --> 00:31:04,570
of his 26 Carry On appearances.

544
00:31:04,570 --> 00:31:07,770
But filming, like many a part of
Williams' life,

545
00:31:07,770 --> 00:31:09,890
would prove a disappointment.

546
00:31:09,890 --> 00:31:13,570
Williams' believed the film would be
shot on location in the
Mediterranean.

547
00:31:13,570 --> 00:31:18,210
Instead, producer, Peter Rogers, with
his hand firmly on the purse strings,

548
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:21,050
had a life-size model of the SS Happy
Wanderer

549
00:31:21,050 --> 00:31:23,850
built on the back lot
of a not-so-sunny Pinewood.

550
00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:28,930
Filming here would prove a challenge
for leading lady, Liz Fraser.

551
00:31:29,770 --> 00:31:32,330
That was quite funny, because I
can't swim.

552
00:31:32,330 --> 00:31:35,410
When we were supposed to be swimming
in the pool,

553
00:31:35,410 --> 00:31:39,050
I said to Gerald, "I can't swim."

554
00:31:39,050 --> 00:31:41,850
And he said, "Well, you've got to do
something in the pool."

555
00:31:43,730 --> 00:31:47,570
So I did some sort of back stroke.

556
00:31:50,650 --> 00:31:54,090
I could never do that.
Oh, it's easy. Watch.

557
00:32:00,050 --> 00:32:02,130
52 years have passed

558
00:32:02,130 --> 00:32:04,050
since things went less than
swimmingly

559
00:32:04,050 --> 00:32:06,010
for Carry On's bathing belle.

560
00:32:06,810 --> 00:32:09,890
Oh, this brings back a few memories.

561
00:32:09,890 --> 00:32:14,810
G Block. That's where we did
most of our filming.

562
00:32:14,810 --> 00:32:17,210
All the dressing rooms
were down there.

563
00:32:17,210 --> 00:32:21,370
I tried always not to be next to
Kenneth Williams,

564
00:32:21,370 --> 00:32:23,570
because he liked it too quiet.

565
00:32:25,450 --> 00:32:27,490
I loved this studio.

566
00:32:27,490 --> 00:32:30,450
I always had to be here
very punctual.

567
00:32:30,450 --> 00:32:34,370
So you could get here as early as
six to have all your make-up done.

568
00:32:44,570 --> 00:32:46,570
I'll see you later, OK?

569
00:32:48,850 --> 00:32:53,370
Now, this is one of the stages where
we used to put all the sets.

570
00:32:54,650 --> 00:32:56,930
Carry On Cruising was done here.

571
00:32:56,930 --> 00:33:00,210
You always leave that lying around.
It's worse than a pair of gloves.

572
00:33:00,210 --> 00:33:02,170
Why don't you leave it in the cabin?

573
00:33:02,170 --> 00:33:05,050
So the ship was here and we were
leaning over.

574
00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:07,530
Whilst we were saying, "Look, there
is Gibraltar,"

575
00:33:07,530 --> 00:33:09,850
it would have been over that side.

576
00:33:11,130 --> 00:33:12,930
Who are we waving to?
I don't know.

577
00:33:14,050 --> 00:33:15,570
Oh!

578
00:33:15,570 --> 00:33:18,010
Good evening, Miss Trimble.
Enjoying yourself?

579
00:33:18,010 --> 00:33:19,850
Very much, thank you.

580
00:33:21,090 --> 00:33:23,490
'That's life, and that's love.

581
00:33:23,490 --> 00:33:26,210
Woman fall for the most unlikely
creatures.'

582
00:33:28,930 --> 00:33:31,290
Quite an energetic game, what?

583
00:33:32,890 --> 00:33:35,570
But it's great being back at
Pinewood

584
00:33:35,570 --> 00:33:38,210
and to hear the noise - fantastic.

585
00:33:40,570 --> 00:33:42,530
But when filming finished on
Cruising,

586
00:33:42,530 --> 00:33:44,610
the journey was far from over.

587
00:33:44,610 --> 00:33:48,130
With a new lead script writer at the
helm, the Carry On cast and crew

588
00:33:48,130 --> 00:33:50,450
were about to make an even bigger
splash,

589
00:33:50,450 --> 00:33:53,850
and exciting new territories
lay ahead.

590
00:34:02,730 --> 00:34:05,770
By 1963, a new Britain was
on a roll -

591
00:34:05,770 --> 00:34:07,690
Rock and roll, to be exact -

592
00:34:07,690 --> 00:34:09,810
as an emerging generation let down
its hair

593
00:34:09,810 --> 00:34:12,130
and went in search of a good time.

594
00:34:12,130 --> 00:34:16,810
Meanwhile, over at Pinewood, the
Carry Ons were busy carrying on.

595
00:34:17,770 --> 00:34:19,770
Gentlemen, really!

596
00:34:19,770 --> 00:34:22,650
The first six films had been written
by Norman Hudis.

597
00:34:22,650 --> 00:34:25,730
But his era of community-based comedy
was coming to an end

598
00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:29,010
as producer, Peter Rogers, seeing a
new road ahead,

599
00:34:29,010 --> 00:34:31,450
roped in writer, Talbot Rothwell.

600
00:34:33,770 --> 00:34:37,450
Tal Rothwell was well-known for
writing comedy scripts

601
00:34:37,450 --> 00:34:40,570
for people like Arthur Askey, the
Crazy Gang, those sort of people.

602
00:34:40,570 --> 00:34:43,970
So Tal Rothwell and Carry On fit
like a tailor-made suit.

603
00:34:43,970 --> 00:34:45,930
They were perfect.

604
00:34:45,930 --> 00:34:48,050
(TYRES SCREECH)

605
00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:51,970
What's the matter with you?
Can't you give a hand signal?

606
00:34:53,050 --> 00:34:55,090
Oh, veteran driver.

607
00:34:56,570 --> 00:34:59,010
Leaving the colourful antics of
Cruising behind,

608
00:34:59,010 --> 00:35:01,850
Carry On Cabby went back
to black and white,

609
00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:04,890
echoing the popular working-class
dramas of the early '60s.

610
00:35:06,290 --> 00:35:09,410
We'll raid their yard and put the
whole lot out of action. What?

611
00:35:09,410 --> 00:35:13,690
With sexual equality now on the
cards, Sid and Hattie locked horns.

612
00:35:13,690 --> 00:35:17,170
Do you call it fair to have a lot of
starry-eyed bints driving cabs?

613
00:35:17,170 --> 00:35:19,210
Pinching our fares
by showing their legs

614
00:35:19,210 --> 00:35:22,490
and sticking out their big ends?
Will you just shut up!

615
00:35:22,490 --> 00:35:24,450
Whose side are you on?
Theirs.

616
00:35:24,450 --> 00:35:27,290
Carry Ons - if you talked to the
person in the street,

617
00:35:27,290 --> 00:35:31,010
they would say, "It's tits and bums
comedy, and it's knockabout and
slapstick."

618
00:35:31,010 --> 00:35:34,090
It is that, of course, but Carry On
Cabby is a feminist film, really.

619
00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:35,970
Kitchen sink Carry On, if you like.

620
00:35:38,250 --> 00:35:41,130
But this was feminism with its face
firmly on.

621
00:35:41,130 --> 00:35:44,090
The first appearance for a future
Carry On leading lady -

622
00:35:44,090 --> 00:35:46,050
27-year-old Amanda Barrie.

623
00:35:48,450 --> 00:35:51,490
Well, actually, darling, do you
think we really stand a chance?

624
00:35:51,490 --> 00:35:54,490
There are far more men drivers,
actually.

625
00:35:54,490 --> 00:35:58,330
I know, but the men haven't got
your advantages, dear.

626
00:35:58,330 --> 00:36:00,850
Just flash your head lamps at them.

627
00:36:00,850 --> 00:36:04,610
I am ashamed to think of it now
when I see those pictures of me.

628
00:36:04,610 --> 00:36:08,130
Because we had these costumes, which
really suited some of the girls

629
00:36:08,130 --> 00:36:10,450
who were sort of well-endowed.

630
00:36:10,450 --> 00:36:14,610
I don't know what I had down
the front of my costume.

631
00:36:14,610 --> 00:36:19,490
I really don't, because I've never
been that shape ever in my life.

632
00:36:19,490 --> 00:36:21,450
Into your cabs, girls!

633
00:36:24,610 --> 00:36:27,250
One thing I failed to tell everybody

634
00:36:27,250 --> 00:36:30,370
until the actual shot when they
said, "You drive off,"

635
00:36:30,370 --> 00:36:33,130
and I went, "I can't drive,
I don't drive."

636
00:36:33,130 --> 00:36:38,450
They were sort of...
that look of "Oh...her".

637
00:36:38,450 --> 00:36:42,530
Then various people said,
"Tow her out of shot."

638
00:36:42,530 --> 00:36:45,930
So I am afraid the crew had to tie
a great big piece of rope

639
00:36:45,930 --> 00:36:48,490
onto the front of my cab,
and I went...

640
00:36:48,490 --> 00:36:51,610
And pick up a gentleman, all right?
Of course, darling.

641
00:36:51,610 --> 00:36:54,050
I've been picking up gentlemen
since I was 17.

642
00:36:57,330 --> 00:37:00,890
What's that bloke playing at? What's
he trying to do, kill himself?

643
00:37:00,890 --> 00:37:03,450
Are you a taxi?
No.

644
00:37:03,450 --> 00:37:06,250
Stopping the traffic in the first of
his eleven Carry Ons,

645
00:37:06,250 --> 00:37:08,210
a young singer called Jim.

646
00:37:08,210 --> 00:37:10,570
No, no, you must help me.
It's my wife.

647
00:37:10,570 --> 00:37:12,610
She's going to have a baby.

648
00:37:12,610 --> 00:37:15,010
# My baby, I need you #

649
00:37:15,010 --> 00:37:18,370
At 22, Jim Dale was the first pop
recording artist

650
00:37:18,370 --> 00:37:21,610
to be taken on by legendary Beatles
producer, George Martin.

651
00:37:23,970 --> 00:37:26,610
Aren't we anywhere near it yet?
It's not far now.

652
00:37:26,610 --> 00:37:29,410
You have been saying that for the
last ten miles. Jeremy!

653
00:37:29,410 --> 00:37:32,050
It's all right. I'm here, dear.
We're all here, dear.

654
00:37:32,050 --> 00:37:34,890
I had a great admiration
for Sid James.

655
00:37:34,890 --> 00:37:38,250
And I had great admiration for all
the other regulars.

656
00:37:38,250 --> 00:37:42,690
And it was Sid and I who had a few
words together on screen.

657
00:37:42,690 --> 00:37:47,450
It wasn't a very big role. It was
just fun to be part of that.

658
00:37:47,450 --> 00:37:51,010
Are you absolutely certain she is
going to have a baby? Oh, yes.

659
00:37:51,010 --> 00:37:54,330
This isn't really very surprising
because it isn't due till next week.

660
00:37:56,410 --> 00:37:59,010
The British public hailed Cabby a
success.

661
00:37:59,010 --> 00:38:02,330
And a year later, Carry On saw
a return to colour production

662
00:38:02,330 --> 00:38:04,890
and another change of direction.

663
00:38:04,890 --> 00:38:08,490
Watch your course, damn your eyes!
You're all over the cursed sea!

664
00:38:08,490 --> 00:38:11,930
With cinema goers lapping up period
swashbucklers

665
00:38:11,930 --> 00:38:14,570
like Mutiny on the Bounty and HMS
Defiant,

666
00:38:14,570 --> 00:38:17,890
1964 saw cast and crew drop anchor

667
00:38:17,890 --> 00:38:21,610
for the first of their hysterical
historicals.

668
00:38:21,610 --> 00:38:24,570
My name is Poop-Decker, sir.
I have a hyphen.

669
00:38:24,570 --> 00:38:27,010
According to this report, you have
more than that.

670
00:38:27,010 --> 00:38:31,050
It was the first costume drama,
as such, and in colour.

671
00:38:32,650 --> 00:38:37,690
I think they spent another £12
on that one, at least.

672
00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:39,610
Absolute daylight robbery.

673
00:38:39,610 --> 00:38:42,250
I enjoyed it, I must say.
Being my first one,

674
00:38:42,250 --> 00:38:44,570
I didn't know quite what was going
to happen.

675
00:38:44,570 --> 00:38:47,370
Keep your eyes tightly closed,
Albert.

676
00:38:52,930 --> 00:38:54,850
I'm sorry, Albert.

677
00:38:54,850 --> 00:38:57,850
Keen to give their period piece
some gravitas,

678
00:38:57,850 --> 00:39:00,690
director Gerald Thomas recruited
classical actors,

679
00:39:00,690 --> 00:39:03,970
Bernard Cribbins and Juliet Mills,
for the leading roles.

680
00:39:03,970 --> 00:39:08,490
I was very honoured to be asked to
be in a Carry On, I can tell you.

681
00:39:08,490 --> 00:39:11,210
Shoot him down!
Everybody wanted to do one,

682
00:39:11,210 --> 00:39:15,210
because everybody knew how much fun
it was going to be.

683
00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:18,170
I remember getting the script

684
00:39:18,170 --> 00:39:24,090
and then getting to the midshipman
outfit.

685
00:39:24,090 --> 00:39:28,130
And I thought, "Oh, my goodness,
this is going to be hilarious,

686
00:39:28,130 --> 00:39:30,530
with me dressed up as a boy."

687
00:39:30,530 --> 00:39:32,370
Who is that up there, then?

688
00:39:35,770 --> 00:39:39,090
Is it Nelson? No, he's got
too many arms. (LAUGHS)

689
00:39:39,090 --> 00:39:41,650
The uniform, it was very authentic.

690
00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:47,930
Tight white britches, which got
tighter as the film progressed,

691
00:39:47,930 --> 00:39:53,050
because I was actually three months
pregnant when I started the film.

692
00:39:53,050 --> 00:39:56,370
I didn't tell anybody
in case it frightened them

693
00:39:56,370 --> 00:39:58,290
and they fired me or something.

694
00:39:58,290 --> 00:40:00,330
I am terribly sorry about all this.

695
00:40:00,330 --> 00:40:03,210
It's all right. It's not your fault.

696
00:40:03,210 --> 00:40:07,170
Fortunately, Juliet Mills would
escape the film's most testing
stunts.

697
00:40:10,690 --> 00:40:12,530
But Cribbins wasn't quite so lucky.

698
00:40:16,130 --> 00:40:19,410
Up the mast, it was like thirty
or forty feet up. It was ridiculous.

699
00:40:19,410 --> 00:40:21,530
"Where's the stunt man?"
"You are. Get up."

700
00:40:22,370 --> 00:40:24,090
Aaaargh!

701
00:40:25,730 --> 00:40:28,050
I enjoyed swinging about on the webs
and all that,

702
00:40:28,050 --> 00:40:30,250
because I was quite physical in
those days.

703
00:40:30,250 --> 00:40:32,530
I enjoyed an awful lot of it,
actually.

704
00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:36,850
As usual, sets were created at
Pinewood Studios.

705
00:40:36,850 --> 00:40:41,330
But Carry On's new co-stars also
found a friendship developing
out on location,

706
00:40:41,330 --> 00:40:45,210
with Frensham Ponds in Surrey
standing in for the Atlantic Ocean.

707
00:40:45,210 --> 00:40:47,290
I can't just lie here
and watch you die.

708
00:40:47,290 --> 00:40:50,170
Juliet was lovely.
I hadn't met her before,

709
00:40:50,170 --> 00:40:52,570
and we just got on very well.

710
00:40:52,570 --> 00:40:55,570
We had a giggle and all that silly
stuff we had to do.

711
00:40:55,570 --> 00:41:00,130
You would do it for me
after all I've done to you?

712
00:41:00,130 --> 00:41:02,970
Bernie is a sweet, darling man.

713
00:41:02,970 --> 00:41:06,610
And he was just very easy
to work with

714
00:41:06,610 --> 00:41:08,770
and very easy to be
in love with him.

715
00:41:08,770 --> 00:41:12,890
It's just my luck the tide's out.
And he's a marvellous actor.

716
00:41:12,890 --> 00:41:17,170
So it was a very happy experience
working with him, yes.

717
00:41:20,930 --> 00:41:23,730
Keen to publicise
their now thriving brand,

718
00:41:23,730 --> 00:41:27,170
the studios sent photographers
to capture life on set.

719
00:41:27,170 --> 00:41:32,210
These pictures, for the press, have
become known as "the blue books".

720
00:41:32,210 --> 00:41:35,570
Laying in a vault and unseen for
decades,

721
00:41:35,570 --> 00:41:39,170
they now form a remarkable archive of
life behind the scenes

722
00:41:39,170 --> 00:41:41,250
on the Carry Ons.

723
00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:44,170
Today, Bernard Cribbins
and Juliet Mills

724
00:41:44,170 --> 00:41:46,650
will meet for the first time
in five decades

725
00:41:46,650 --> 00:41:49,130
and get their very first look
at photographs

726
00:41:49,130 --> 00:41:51,210
taken during Carry On Jack.

727
00:41:56,050 --> 00:41:58,130
Well, here we are,

728
00:41:58,130 --> 00:42:00,770
this is Bernard Cribbins reporting
from Frensham Ponds

729
00:42:00,770 --> 00:42:02,730
on a fine, blustery day.

730
00:42:02,730 --> 00:42:05,570
We did a scene here on Carry On Jack
fifty years ago.

731
00:42:05,570 --> 00:42:07,810
I think that was the beach where we
landed.

732
00:42:07,810 --> 00:42:11,850
Land! We're saved!
It's land over there! Land?

733
00:42:11,850 --> 00:42:13,810
Land! Come on, it's land!

734
00:42:14,970 --> 00:42:17,530
There was Kenneth Williams,
Charlie Hawtrey,

735
00:42:17,530 --> 00:42:20,290
Juliet Mills and myself, of course.

736
00:42:21,570 --> 00:42:24,130
We landed there after the shipwreck
or whatever it was

737
00:42:24,130 --> 00:42:26,650
and shot off up the beach here.

738
00:42:26,650 --> 00:42:30,250
Come on, let's find some water.
Water? We've had enough of that.

739
00:42:35,890 --> 00:42:40,170
I am so excited. I haven't seen
Bernie for fifty years.

740
00:42:42,570 --> 00:42:45,730
Now I am going to see him.
He's right over there. I can't wait.

741
00:42:47,290 --> 00:42:49,290
Once the film had finished,

742
00:42:49,290 --> 00:42:52,690
I went onto something else and
she probably did exactly the same.

743
00:42:52,690 --> 00:42:55,210
And that was it. End of story.

744
00:42:55,210 --> 00:42:57,330
Yeah, amazing.

745
00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:01,970
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.

746
00:43:01,970 --> 00:43:04,050
Take your clothes off. I love you.

747
00:43:04,050 --> 00:43:07,170
How are you?
I am good, darling.

748
00:43:07,170 --> 00:43:09,090
How lovely to see you.
It is 50 years.

749
00:43:09,090 --> 00:43:12,210
Isn't it shocking?
No, it's not. It's lovely.

750
00:43:12,210 --> 00:43:14,530
We are both still standing up
and taking notice.

751
00:43:14,530 --> 00:43:16,770
I know we are.
Come on. We'll go over here.

752
00:43:16,770 --> 00:43:19,810
It's so good to see you.
I am really thrilled to see you.

753
00:43:22,570 --> 00:43:25,490
Oh, Albert, do I have to hit you
over the head again? No.

754
00:43:25,490 --> 00:43:27,450
I love you.

755
00:43:28,450 --> 00:43:30,490
You love me?

756
00:43:30,490 --> 00:43:32,810
Oh, that's wonderful,
because I love me, too.

757
00:43:32,810 --> 00:43:34,850
I mean, I love you, too.

758
00:43:37,170 --> 00:43:40,650
It's a sort of a record of the films
that were made...

759
00:43:40,650 --> 00:43:42,770
The Carry Ons at Pinewood.

760
00:43:42,770 --> 00:43:46,130
Oh, my God! Look at that.
Bernie, you were so physical.

761
00:43:46,130 --> 00:43:48,170
Look at that.
My pistol's falling out.

762
00:43:48,170 --> 00:43:50,330
That's how excited I was.
(LAUGHS)

763
00:43:52,050 --> 00:43:55,530
I might steal this. I think it's got
some lovely pictures. It has.

764
00:43:55,530 --> 00:43:59,130
I never knew they made records
of all the movies.

765
00:43:59,130 --> 00:44:01,330
There were a lot of sailors.

766
00:44:01,330 --> 00:44:03,930
Yeah, well, you would know that
better than me, dear.

767
00:44:03,930 --> 00:44:06,250
Yes, I would. (LAUGHS)

768
00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:08,210
Oh, God...

769
00:44:09,370 --> 00:44:13,010
I am amazed to see what long hair
I had. I never knew...

770
00:44:14,210 --> 00:44:16,930
Kill them! Kill them all!
Attack! Attack!

771
00:44:16,930 --> 00:44:18,370
Next time...

772
00:44:18,370 --> 00:44:20,450
Oh, dear. (LAUGHS)

773
00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:22,610
I seem to have got
a little plastered.

774
00:44:23,610 --> 00:44:26,610
How the Carry Ons left them screaming
with laughter...

775
00:44:26,610 --> 00:44:29,010
This film is always with me,

776
00:44:29,010 --> 00:44:32,450
because there are always people who
are seeing it for the first time,

777
00:44:32,450 --> 00:44:36,610
and it's become a very big part
of my life because of that.

778
00:44:36,610 --> 00:44:40,930
..as the gang burst forward
towards a golden era of comedy.

779
00:44:43,170 --> 00:44:46,370
At the count of three, it was
whipped off, and they were out.

780
00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:49,690
Infamy! Infamy!

781
00:44:49,690 --> 00:44:51,690
They've all got it in for me!

782
00:44:52,250 --> 00:44:54,210
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