Carry On series on screen and stage

The Carry On series is a long-running British sequence of comedy films, stage shows and television programmes produced between 1958 and 1992.

[2] There were thirty-one films, four TV Christmas specials, one television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays,[3] all made on time and to a strict budget.

The main cast predominantly featured Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas and Jim Dale.

The writer Penelope Gilliatt wrote: "The usual charge to make against the Carry On films is to say that they could be so much better done.

They look dreadful, they seem to be edited with a bacon slicer, the effects are perfunctory, and the comic rhythm jerks along like a cat on a cold morning.