Doctor Who Vs. Carry On at 65: Behind

The twenty-seventh entry in

the Carry On franchise was

released in 1975, and was the
first feature not scripted by
Talbot Rothwell since Carry
On Cruising.

Remaining stalwarts Kenneth
Williams, Joan Sims, Kenneth
Connor, and Peter Butterworth

were joined by Liz Frazer, Jack

 Douglas, Windsor Davies, Ian

Lavender, and German actress

Elke Sommer. Sid James was again absent, whilst Bernard Bresslaw and Patsy Rowlands made their

final series appearances here.

The comedy (which utilised the same exteriors at Pinewood as Carry

On Camping) was shown on ITV3 tonight - it featured seventeen

Doctor Who cast connections:

• Davies (Ramsden here; Bloomer in Carry On England) was Toby in The Evil of the Daleks
• George [Michael William] Layton (Doctor) was Technician Penn in The Seeds of Death, and depicted the Doctor in (the unaired French & Saunders sketch) The Silurian Disruption - he then voiced Stefan Lehne for Big Finish's Unto the Breach (2014), Louis Markel/Guard for The Havoc of Empires (2015), and Regis Tel for The Quest of the Engineer (2020)
• Donald [Marland] Hewlett (the Dean) was Sir George Hardiman in The Claws of Axos
• Sidney [Charles] Johnson (Man) was Old Man in (episode 3 of) The Mutants
• Stanley McGeagh (Man) was Allen in Colony in Space (3), and Drew in The Sea Devils
• Kenneth Waller (Barman) and Roderick Smith (Student) both appeared in The Invisible Enemy as Hedges (2) and Cruikshank
• for Sims (Daphne) and Bresslaw (Upmore) see Carry On Nurse
• for Butterworth (Barnes) see Carry On Cowboy
• Derek Chafer (Audience) appeared in forty episodes (from The Time Meddler to Warriors' Gate)
• Steve Ismay (Man) was TV Crewman in The Daemons (2), Guerilla in Day of the Daleks (3), titular reptile in The Sea Devils, Body- guard in The Mutants (1), Guard in Frontier in Space (2), The Monster of Peladon (1), Planet of the Spiders, The Deadly Assassin and The Androids of Tara, Soldier in The Time Warrior (1) and Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Exxilon in Death to the Daleks, Citizen in Full Circle, and Cyberman in Earthshock
• Peter Roy (Man) was Soldier in The Myth Makers and The Highlanders (1), Sergeant [Erskine] and Chauffeur in The Faceless Ones (1), UNIT Soldier in The Invasion (1), Guard in The Seeds of Death (1), The Space Pirates (1), The Face of Evil (1), The Invasion of Time (1), The Androids of Tara (1), The Armageddon Factor (1) and The Horns of Nimon, Extra in The Silurians (6), The Sun Makers (1) and Resurrection of the Daleks (1), Policeman in The Mind of Evil and Logopolis (1), Technic Obarl in The Hand of Fear (1), Ambulance Man in Castrovalva (1), and Market Man in Snakedance (1)
• for Sam Kelly see Carry On Dick
• for Billy Cornelius see Carry On Screaming
• for Hugh Futcher see Carry On Spying
• for Reg Thomason see Carry On Sergeant
• for Alan Meacham see Carry On Abroad
• for Paul Barton see Carry On Loving