Carry On

[Abdulmajid]

Great voices on BBC2 now.

I never knew Peggy Mitchell actually sh4gged Syd James!!!!!

And what a horrible man Kenneth Williams was.

Am I alone in not knowing these revelations???

[chappie]

Ethel, that sounds like one hell of a read!

[Ethel]

Get it from the library, Chappie.

Stick with it, and tell me what you think. :)

[chappie]

I'll look for it in my local library Ethel, but I now live in a village with a teeny tiny library - I reckon I've got nearly as many books as they have!

I'll definitely try to find it though. :o )

[Ethel]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/00063 80905/ref=sr_1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=gateway&qid=121 5902286&sr=8-1

[Sir Alec]

You can put in a request for it and your library will borrow it from another library for the duration of your read.

[chappie]

Thanks Ethel and Sir Alec.

I'll have a word with my local library.

[tigerlily11]

Loved them all right up to the late 60's. Anything after that was just silly.
Carry on England was the worst.
Carry Cruising was my fave.
Cleo was fantastic.
Screaming, Cabby, Teacher,Constable, regaurdless, Sargent, Doctor, all just brilliant.

[Sir Alec]

Yes, and Columbus was appalling! My favourites are Camping and Screaming. Khyber is great but it's played more than the others put together. Any in which Joan Simms got "drunk" were fantastic.

[Velvetee]

Yes known about it for years. So maybe you are alone.

[Marijn]

I like Kenneth Williams. I think he's a genius. He was especially good on Just a Minute.

[Sir Alec]

Mmm....Matron!

[bubbles4920]

carry on abroad was my favourite, great when the hotel started sinking and everyone around them was oblivious, screaming with laughter due to the spiked punch!

[beejaybee]

I saw both these progs when they were on BBC3 or 4. Michael Sheen is a very talented actor.

[saxy_jag]

I really enjoyed Columbus - getting back to the double-entendre smut of the traditional Carry On films.

The one film that stands out as truly appalling to me is Carry On England. I love Patrick Mower, but that film did him no justice whatsoever. Moreover, whereas all the other 'history' films did at least attempt to give us a credible setting, this was just a bunch of actors pratting around in army uniforms in some commandeered youth camp in Wales.

[Whickerman]

there was a film on a few years back that was biographical, can't remember the name - but yes, they did the deed, and he was madly obsessed with her.

[Postdog]

er, whickerman, that was what was on....

[tonymclark]

Sid James and Diana Coupland played husband and wife in "Bless this House", not "Man about the House".

[Whickerman]

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