Carry on Cleo - an absolute classic followed closely by Carry on Screaming.

As a family we'd head off to the cinema with each new carry on film. Still love them to this day.

The Carry On tradition continued on television with numerous sit coms such as Are You Being Served, Hi De Hi, It Aint Half Hot Mum and Allo Allo. All of these shows were mini Carry On's. And damn funny they were too.

@thebadtemperedbrit

Жыл бұрын

Hi-De-Hi is an absolute tour-de-force, from hilariously funny to tear-jerking pathos and the cast are just fabulous, I recommend all to watch again.

@sarahedwards8201

7 ай бұрын

Good old days😂✨

@davidhamilton6612

6 күн бұрын

Sadly, these gems can never be made again, not without being watered down so much for the current viewers that all you get is part of the title and "The End".

A dull rainy miserable bank holiday is suddenly brought to life by the appearance of Carry On's on the telly on ITV3 or 4. Snobs may sneer at them but as far as I'm concerned they can take their opinions and shove them up the Khyber! My favourite? Possibly "Sergeant". I wish I had a platoon sergeant like Grimshaw in my day. It's so gentle and without the double entendres and smutty innuendo of future Carry On's. I love them that much I spent two years amassing the autographs of the main cast, framing them together and mounting them on the front room wall. The wife's really impressed.........

i grew up watching Carry On movies here in south africa, best days of our lives!🤣😂

I think that a large format book containing all of the original film posters would be welcomed by Carry On fans around the world.

"Less knowing, less cynical, less judgmental". How do we revive that sort of entertainment ... ?

@alanseward4979

Жыл бұрын

We were very fortunate to be able to view these films as they were intended,a bit of fun ? I fear the ‘do good’brigade have ruined the innocent humour of these films!

@lefuedebout

Жыл бұрын

.... " How do we revive that sort of entertainment ... ? " Answer, get rid of the politically correct mob and the object to anything enjoyable " enrichers "!

@MegaDeansy

Жыл бұрын

Sadly that'll never happen - the PC gang have got 'Humour' by the nuts !

@alanseward4979

Жыл бұрын

When we were kids we would sit down and watch the carry on films as a family,laughing and joking all the way through! Todays “Woke Generation” say that the films are bigoted an,homophobic and racist lol. It’s ridiculous ! They highly Bernie Breslau being “blacked up” in Carry on up the Jungle. Lighten up you bloody idiots and get off social media and living on your mobile phones! Have a laugh at the films as they were intended,COMEDIES !

@highdownmartin

Жыл бұрын

@@alanseward4979 they were of their time. Things move on. Doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them but the saucy postcard humour can’t exist in a more permissive society. Laurel and hardy are still brilliant but they wouldn’t fill cinemas.

I am a fan I got the series when it 1st came to DVD and have my favs. I still get a kick out of a 1700s ship set used for Carry on Cleo. One thing they did forget Jim Dale was also the only one to do Big Budget films which were made for Disney.

Carry on Teacher was filmed at my dad's school in West Ealing, Drayton Green primary school. It was always good to see locations you new when you watched the films, even me with my nan when i was about 4 or 5 in the 60's walking West Ealing railway station going to the shops, brings back lovely memories. I used to visit Pinewood studios for work, there is a Carry on walk of fame in one of the buildings, with photos of the stars. At 61 now I still love them.😂

My favourites….Carry On Cleo and Don’t lose your head.

@davidhamilton6612

6 күн бұрын

Great choices, but my favs are "Carry On Camping" and "Carry On Up The Khyber".

Loved these films when US TV started showing them in the 1970s.

Grew up with these , brilliant in their day , still funny now :)

I (a die-hard Carry On fan) have still never seen "England" all the way through...judging by the bits I have seen, I'm not missing much...

I love most of the Carry On films and I never tire of watching them. I'm glad they weren't censored by todays PC brigade. 🤣🤣Thank you for the video, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Love them to this day

Kenneth Williams was a true comedy Genius. You / somebody should do a ranking of all the movies

Still watch carry on abroad the night before i go on holiday. It's even downloaded on my kindle so i can watch it on the plane.

I had forgotten how many of those films were made. Right, top of the list for movie watching. Thank you for the reminder. 🎉❤🎉😊

Very well done..at 77…these were my times…thank you 👵🇦🇺🇺🇸

I'm an ancient American. On a whim I bought several Carry On Double Features on DVD. The first film that I watched in the series was "Carry On Follow That Camel" (1967), because it featured Phil Silvers in the cast. I need to expand my collection. While I own nearly 500 PAL standard DVD releases (England, Australia, and New Zealand, plus Spain, Italy, Norway, Germany, and Sweden) the Carry On films that I have were released in the U.S. by VCI as part of The Rank Collection. My total DVD, blu-Ray, and 4K UHD collection totals at least 6,000 releases. Over 1,700 LaserDiscs

@briscoethecollie1510

Жыл бұрын

Check out the movie version of Bless This House, you can find that on KZread. Brilliant show and movie, it has Sid James in it and is a close cousin to Carry On family.

@briscoethecollie1510

Жыл бұрын

Hi mate, also check out Dick Emery... this is like a caricature of British culture and attitudes... love 'Honky Tonk'... kzread.info/dash/bejne/gmiomcdtltK5Yto.html

@deboralee1623

Жыл бұрын

many years ago, i saw part of _Camel_ on TV. at the time, i didn't know its heritage, and was a bit shocked by "make water", "punch your ticket", "open your porthole", and other lines i shouldn't have laughed at; fortunately, my parents weren't also watching. not clutch-my-pearls shocked, that-can't-mean-what-i-think-it-means shocked. and as for the baby in his pram... that _really_ can't mean what i think it means.

@dadoctah

Жыл бұрын

Saw Phil on the Dick Cavett Show absolutely *raving* about how he loved working in Britain, how the audience as well as his co-stars really loved his performance and how he had such a great time making the film. That said, I'm a bit on the fence about the effect of bringing in big-name stars from outside the franchise, like Silvers, Juliet Mills in "Carry On Jack", and the new kids in "Carry On Columbus" (Alexei Sayle, Rick Mayall and Charles "Roger Rabbit" Fleischer). Even Frankie Howerd seems a little misplaced in his two outings.

I'm glad I grew up knowing these wonderful films.

Well researched and thoughtful. A wonderful tribute!

Carry on films are part of classic British cinema

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

MUSTAFALEEK! that line from "Follow that camel" sticks with me to this day. It doesn't work like in the movie but it helps take the edge off a crazy situation 😜

Carry on Abroad is very rewatcheable...

These films were pure comedy gold. Khyber has to be my favourite closely followed by Doctor

@robertnewell5057

Жыл бұрын

Nurse. I am one, and although exaggerated, the scenes and attitudes were actually not far off.

@cliffhigson7581

Жыл бұрын

Thankfully some of the movies are on KZread.

Being able to laugh at yourself is a sign of a secureness so sadly missing in today’s society of neurotic whingers taking offence at anything and everything.

@501sqn3

Жыл бұрын

Sir, I find your post offensive in the extreme!. How dare you fail to consider 'My' personal opinion when expressing your own!. Don't you understand?... The essence of 'diversity' is that 'my' thoughts, opinion and feelings are more important than yours !.. .....hang on 🤔...........

As a young kid in the early 70s absolutely loved these, usually watch them again every Easter.

Carry on Cleo and Screaming were my favourites.

My mother saw Carry on Nurse when I was little. I grew up hearing about this English film (we were in Oklahoma). I sent her the dvd and she thoroughly enjoyed it again.

Believe it or not, these films were pretty well-known to some American audiences as well. I grew up close to the Canadian border, so my local Public Television channel (which had a large Canadian audience) had a lot of the Carry On movies that they would show on Saturday nights. I fell in love with Babs at an early age! 🙂

@TomGallagherSuperboyBeyond

Жыл бұрын

Carry On Nurse actually did very well theatrically in america. Though i only know this from the dvd commentary.

@grahampenthouse6037

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that...

You're right about these movies causing uproar if they were released today. I can just imagine the response to Carry on Cowboy from the usual suspects... "What is this WOKE nonsense!??!! Typical of the Carry On Movies to try and suggest a WOMAN would be a better gunslinger than a MAN!! And then SHE has to teach HIM how to shoot!???!! Didn't the writers already try and force this stuff down our throats when Carry On Cabby showed a MARRIED woman running a more successful business than her husband?!!"

Very nicely done! Good luck with BEH. I shall definitely have the main theme tune for the films played at my funeral.

Very good 👍. I've always loved the carry on films.

Loved Carry on up the Khyber

These films are always funny. I love abroad, screaming and at your convenience. xx

60's child here, I grew up on these films plus hammer horror with Peter cushing and Christopher Lee. My favourite carry-on film was, unsurprisingly, carry-on screaming, with the hypnotic fenella fielding, my dad knew her.

I'm an American and I've seen every Carry On movie except Emmanuelle, I just can't force myself to watch that one. I love them all despite the language difference lol.

@tonywilkinson6895

Жыл бұрын

Ooh matron!!😄✌

@papershark

Жыл бұрын

I'm a British person and I've seen every Police Academy film except Mission to Moscow.

@davids8449

Жыл бұрын

@@papershark im a British person is first stage PR be careful..... I'm a British chap or woman would sound better...,.... Regards

@biggusdickus5986

Жыл бұрын

Steve, do yourself a favour and NEVER EVER watch carry on Emmanuelle it will break your heart to see such a tragic end to such a great series, Carry on England was the 2nd worst too, l wish I'd seen neither, Carry On Dick was the last best. But my favourite line from all of them was Kenneth Williams Ceasars, " infamy!..infamy..! They've all got it in for me" brilliant.

@stevehoch9528

Жыл бұрын

@@biggusdickus5986 Carry on Cleo was very good, one of their best. I didn't hate Carry on England but it seems if both Kenneth Williams and Sid James were missing, I didn't enjoy it as much personally. I've seen clips of Emmanuelle and don't worry, I don't think there is any danger of me watching it. Ironically since they don't show any of these classics normally here, my introduction to the series was the very last one, Carry on Columbus. I also wish Jim Dale had been in more of them.

Double entendres are the best.😁

I've got all the carry on films on d v d s and I watch them when they are on telly every time I don't care when there on I go upstairs if he watches something else😊❤

Carry on screaming and carry on Cleo for me. Though carry on sergeant and carry on spying are classics

Thanks for this summary.

Talbot Rothwell what a legend, he also wrote Up Pompei.

Cleo and Behind were my favourites.

What an excellent summing up of a top series (with only one or three duds!)

Love the carry on films the very first one I watched being Carry on Loving still my favourite

I have seen some of them, believe it or not (well for a Texan),. Id love to see them again....

I love most Carry On films but can't say I love them all. My favourite is Convenience but I haven't been able to sit through Emmannuelle and haven't bothered with Columbus.

Carry on at Your Convenience is just a brilliant snapshot of Britain at that time and still makes me laugh especially when they go to the cinema and watch the nudist film.

Political correctness had no place when these films were made - look what brilliant masterpieces came out ! Love all carry on films and watch then regularly to switch off against all the crap that is going on all around Britain and wokeness going on !!

I found these a bit tacky and common, but funny enough as a child. I understood their intended audience. But now I think they're F'n hilarious. A time gone by. You couldn't possibly make them today, imagine the screeching and apoplectic rage of the "more offended than thou" people.

Watched them all great film's also loved all the Hammer horror films .

I grew up watching the Carry On films. Absolute British institution and a vibrant snapshot of societal changes in the mid 20th century. The Carry Ons were produced on minimal budget but some of the historic ones really pulled it off, managing to look well produced and authentic. I think the cast are what made them the success they were. It’d be nice to see a similar franchise take off today. The closest I can think that could pull it off would be the cast of Ghosts and Horrible Histories. I think they have a similar energy.

@andrewholliday251

Жыл бұрын

I don't think the HH/Yonderland/Ghosts cast/writers would go anywhere near the Carry Ons type of humour. Their closest predecessors were probably The Goodies...

@MienKraft4u

Жыл бұрын

​@@andrewholliday251 I don't know about that - there are a few Carry On like jokes in Ghosts ....

I always thought Kenneth Williams would have make a really good villain in a serious movie, like a psycho or a serial killer. He was actually an extraordinarily talented actor, whatever else you might think of him, and he never really came near his full potential on screen.

Love Carry On films. Even the bad ones.

Kenneth was a comedy genius. Such a shame.

Similar but different franchise, it is one of my favourite movie facts that Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The Confessions Of A Taxi Driver movie both came out in 1976...and in the UK the Confessions Of A Taxi Driver sold more tickets (in the UK) 😊

Carry on Camping for me…..Brilliant !

@carolowen6242

Жыл бұрын

That's my favourite too!

@alanseward4979

Жыл бұрын

@@carolowen6242 When films were just humour!

I love all the Carry On films. Totally agree that Carry On Columbus is the worst one that they made though. The early black and white films are Carry on Sergeant, Carry on Constable and Carry on nurse are among my favourites.

It's worth pointing out that "Don't Lose Your Head" and "Follow that Camel" were not Carry-On films originally. The Producer and Director switched studios and did not use "Carry On" in the title of their first two comedies for Rank. "Carry-On" was only added to their titles in I think the late 1980s.

@501sqn3

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm, I don't think that can be right? , I saw "don't loose your head" and "at your convenience" in a cinema in the mid 70's and they were both billed as- "Carry on"........

I really wish I was around when they came out on the cinema. I only got associated with them through my dad. He was and still is a big fan. I’m glad that I got the chance to watch them.

@thebadtemperedbrit

Жыл бұрын

They were on TV regularly from the 70's until the early 90's I think, especially weekends, Bank Holidays & Christmas. There's many a happy memory of Babs Windor's botty gracing the Sunday afternoon TV screen.

cor, only jim dale left now ! carry on screaming... that scared me as a child !

@andrewholliday251

Жыл бұрын

Wait until you see The Addams Family TV series. Every joke Screaming had in it - but made two years earlier.

Ludicrous ...but loveable characters 😅 definitely ludicrous , Sid James and Charles hawtrey in particular we're mad cap !!!

We saw them here in Denmark, too. The sexual revolution brought every saucie bit of humor to Denmark in the late sixties and then on. They kinda influenced some of the movies they made here, too. But those films were definitely for the adults..

I remember as a young lad I was a member of the theatre Royal and I remember seeing Babs in Sparrows can’t sing

Carry On Abroad my favourite, so is this enjoyable post.

Absolutely amazing upload mate, as much about social and cultural attitude as it is about comedy. Loved Carry On films all my life, the latter ones always seemed a bit wasted to be honest, Camping, Convenience and Kyber are my favourites. 😆😆😆

Nicely made video, enjoyed it, thank you!

As a child, I laughed like a drain at the Carry On… films. I didn’t understand all of the jokes but they were fun to watch. Rewatching them in my teens, the jokes were more overt and I still laughed as much in different places. Of their era, they were comedy gold. They wouldn’t be made today.

Thanks, very enjoyable.......Abroad is my favourite.

Thanks really enjoyed watching this 👍

The problem I have with the carry on films is when they show them now, they are cut to ribbons. 😊

@paulconway384

Жыл бұрын

Buy the DVDs. No woke censorship.

@peteryoung4957

Жыл бұрын

I'd never watch them on TV. I have all the DVD's.

@MrGroganmeister

Жыл бұрын

@@peteryoung4957 me too.

Carry on Columbus wasn't a bad film at all. It was very funny. I loved it!

Infamy! Infamy! All together now!

I love all of them ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Thanks so much for this. Unbelievably informative even to a fan. I also admire your analysis of the 'political correctness' matter. Nobody tells me what's funny, but everyone tries to nowadays. It is true that we could laugh at outselves and still have a sense of our heritage. 58-78 you say, but then later recall the 1992 Carry on Columbus, as though it was a tack on. Poor film but worthy of a place in the canon and includes Jim Dale. Double entendres, not deeble, by the way, not even in Carry On land! Thanks again.

@andersdottir1111

Жыл бұрын

Double entendre - double is pronounced ‘doo-bla’.

Can you imagine that if any of the cast won an award they would make an acceptance speech criticising the government and spout political nonsense.

Very good, broadcast quality

Fantastic analysis.

Brilliantly put .❤

Loved this little bit of Carry On..I believe Barbara Windsor Father was a bus conductor, This was mentioned in Ms Windsor book..All of Me., with each generation comes new Carry on's fans...

How can you have only 570 subscribers and nearly 80,000 views for the video? I subscribed anyway

1:54 (pause) & 1:57 (pause)- Yes, that IS Doctor Who...!!

Saucy, seaside post-card humour - on film !. Loved em all with Sid being my hero - RIP all the wonderful people involved with the 'Carry On' films .......... with the exception of.Gerald Thomas who treated them all appallingly !

The making of Cleopatra was in itself ridiculous

Not forgetting the linked though completely seperate (and first) 1957 "Carry on Admiral" on which it is alleged the title for "Carry on Sergeant" and therefore the series was "... pilfered willy-nilly".

Gotta be Up the Khyber for me

@501sqn3

Жыл бұрын

......Ooooh err Matron!! 😂

@troyagane8220

Жыл бұрын

@@501sqn3 stop messin' about!

Top 3. Up the Khyber, Screaming, Cleo.

Great video. Just to satisfy my OCD brain for detail..... can anyone confirm the video's claim that Khyber's outdoor shots were Snowdonia? I had it in my mind that they were shot in Borrowdale in the Lake district.

Love carry on

Carry on screaming and follow that camel 😂

In the Carry on England there is a good scene with a button and a big bust. Hilarious.

@CailenCambeul

Жыл бұрын

Almost a repeat of the same joke with Babs in Camping.

Still never been on holiday to Elsbels

Many of the cast were household names well before the Carry Ons - Sid James, with Hancock, Kenneth Williams, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques at least.

I am still allowed to watch what I want without PR....... Here's how my television and radio has been turned off for 39 years and replaced with films I want to watch THE END

£80,000 in 1962 would have bought 15 posh houses. Today, 15 posh houses would cost a minimum of £8 million. That's about $12 million dollars, and, although not a huge amount for a movie, it's not chicken feed either. So, €80,000 doesn't sound a lot, but it was enough to retire on, in luxury, in 1962.

Infamy, infamy.

Loved the Carry On films until I saw a documentary detailing just how badly the actors were treated when making the films...can never watch them with the same lighthearted enthusiasm now...

I actually liked "Carry on Columbus". My favourites were Camping and Abroad. My least favourite was Emmanuel. I have all of them including the TV series and Christmas Specials. The only thing I've not seen is the stage shows. I also have a copy of the TV series, "Bless this House". I know it has nothing to do with the Carry On franchise but it's Sid James.

@andrewholliday251

Жыл бұрын

You should chase up an earlier series - 'George and the Dragon' - another Sid James show but much better than Bless This House. Time hasn't been kind to that one....

@michealbohmer2871

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewholliday251 Will do, thanks.