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Obviously they are great in principle - but which ones are great in practice?

I think these are the good ones:

Carry On Up The Khyber Carry On Cleo Carry On Cabbie Carry On Screaming Carry On Doctor (or whatever the first Hospital one is) (and maybe) Carry On At Your Convenience

what do you think?

― DV, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Matrrrron! New Answers.

― DV, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is not a thread -- you've got it spot on. destroy emanuelle.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FUCKFUCKFUCK I completely forgot about the Paramount Carry On weekend last week.

― Graham, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is the dinner scene in Carry On Up The Khyber one of the greatest and most iconic scenes ever in British cinema?

― DV, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes it is.

― Tom, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also like 'Carry On Up The Jungle' (although the addition of Frankie Howerd slightly unbalances the 'regular' cast mix); 'Carry On Abroad' (poss. Hattie Jacques and Peter Butterworth's series-best performances); 'Carry On Again Doctor' (if only because the Sid James character is called Dr. Gladstone Screwer!); 'Carry On Camping' (I loved the parody on 'Shooting Stars' the other evening - Will Self's Bernard Bresslaw impersonation was the best thing he's ever done - and I also love the film's opening parody of Brit nudist camp exploitation pics); and 'Carry On Spying', which is better than any James Bond film.

All of the Carry Ons past 1972 - Girls/Dick/Behind/England/Emmannuelle - are pretty awful sadly.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

First hospital one = "Matron"

Add "Spying", as Andrew L says, and we're done.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Carry On Abroad for the moment where Sid James walks through what he thinks is a glazed window. also cause the spanish holiday resort is called 'ells bells'. Hattie Jacques good in this, as well, as Spanish mother. Carry On Don't Lose Your Head was alright. plus all those others already mentioned.

― Bill, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love the way later Carry On films are set in a weird alternate universe where Barbara Windsor is young and attractive.

― DV, Tuesday, 19 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

carry on follow that camel cos phil silver rools

― misterjones, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, the dinner scene in Khyber is fantastic, very funny indeed. In fact that may be my favourite, along with At your Convenience and Matron, which was on just the other night and still had me chuckling despite it probably being about the hundrdth viewing of it.

― chris, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Girls/Dick/Behind/England/Emmannuelle

Is this a word game?

― N., Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the terry johnson play - classic or dud? I loved it - the play was great, and the TV adaptation was well suited. Bonus points for actually having Peggy Mitchell appear as herself at the end.

― Alan T, Wednesday, 20 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine months pass...

England is easily the worst of the series and Columbus was just a real stinker.

Aside from Spying (which is great), does anyone else find the early black-and-white films disappointly twee and insubstantial?

I rather like the 70's films - At Your Convenience, Up The Jungle, Girls, Abroad, Dick, Behind etc. Many say that like the Hammer films the classic period was the 60's but the early 70's movies were always reliable fare.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Sunday, 12 January 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

how are your doings?
elke sommer walses over kenneth williams

http://www.londonpostcard.co.uk/images/rank/rk1765.jpg

― erik, Sunday, 12 January 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Carry on in India

To me they're like James Bond, born in the 50's and best in the 60's i.e 64-69. Some were ok afterwards but they backed themselves into a stylistic dead end even more quickly than Bond.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

They started in a stylistic dead end surely? No backing in necessary.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 January 2003 20:26 (twenty-three years ago)

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