Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Cabby

Talbot Rothwell wrote Carry On Jack but his first screenplay for

the franachise was called Call Me A Cab which became Carry On

Cabby, the seventh entry in the run and the first not to include

Kenneth Williams. Series stalwarts Sid James, Hattie Jacques,

Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor and Liz Fraser all returned.

Jim Dale and Amanda Barrie both debuted here, whilst Esme

Cannon (1905-1972) made her fourth and final appearance.

James also starred in the contemporary BBC drama Taxi! (with

his Carry On co-star Bill Owen), and the filming of Cabby was

recreated for BBC Four's Hattie (with Jacques depicted by Ruth

Jones).

Released in mid-1963, the comedy was shown again on Film4

today - it starred seven Doctor Who cast alumni:

• [John] Peter Gilmore (Dancy here; Patch in Carry On Jack; Galley Master in Carry On Cleo; Curly in Carry On Cowboy; Robespierre in Don't Lose Your Head; Bagshaw in Follow That Camel; Henry in Carry On Doctor & Carry On Again Doctor; Ginger in Carry On Up the Khyber; King Francis in Carry On Henry; Governor in Carry On Columbus) was Brazen in Frontios
• Norman Mitchell [born Driver] (Businessman here; Policeman/ Algerian in Carry On Spying; Heckler in Carry On Cleo; Cabby in Carry On Screaming!; Husband in Carry On Emmannuelle) was a Policeman in (episode 7 of) The Daleks' Master Plan
• Geoffrey [Francis] Colvile (Printer) was Perry in The Evil of the Daleks
• Penelope [Jane] Lee (Kisser) provided the Computer voice for Revelation of the Daleks (2)
• Juba [Elgar] Kennerley (Man here; Guest in Follow That Camel) was an Old Man in The Massacre (2)
• for Don McCorkindale (Tubby) see Carry On Sergeant
• for costume designer Joan Ellacot see Carry On Cruising

Hattie (originally shown in January 2011) featured

another six Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

• Dan Zeff was director of Love & Monsters too
• Robert [Guy] Bathurst (John Le Mesurier) voiced Cardinal Padrac for Big Finish's Doom Coalition series (2015-17), then appeared as General Farquhar in Survivors of the Flux
• Jeany Spark (Joan) voiced Florence Nightingale for The Angel of Scutari (2009), Jelena for Prisoner of the Sun (2010), Daisy Chapel for Operation: Hellfire (2020), Ifor Tragaacanth and Cham Yal for The Doomsday Contract, Gonch and Piir Mother for The Melting Pot (both 2021), and Carol Protraxus for Bad Day in Tinseltown (2022)
• Stephen Critchlow (Gerald Thomas) voiced Anthony Newley for Blue Veils and Golden Sands (2002), O'Keefe for The Nowhere Place (2006), Extra for The Eternity Clock (2012), the Earl of Wessex and Professor Fester for The Lady of Mercia (2013), Billy Flint for An Ordinary Life (2014), the titular alien for The Yes Men, Marvo for The Haunting (both 2015), Noni for Gallery of Ghouls, Narrator of Sound the Siren and I'll Come to You Comrade (both 2016), The Young Lions and Intuition, Leonard for Ruler of the Universe (all 2017), Sir Humphrey Eagleton and Charlie Lucas for Jago & Litefoot Forever (2018), Malcolm Wishart for The Creeping Death, and Teddy Baxter and Michael Hart for The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (both 2019)
• John Bell (Robin) was Creet in Utopia
• Fay Selby was also first assistant director on Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan, Nightmare in Silver and The Day of the Doctor