Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Henry

Sid James depicted Henry VIII for

the twenty-first chapter in the Carry

On film franchise - he was joined by

Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey,

Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Terry

Scott, Kenneth Connor, and Peter Butterworth. Series producer Peter Rogers had originally planned on casting Harry Secombe as the king.

Released by Rank in early 1971, the production was based on a fictional manuscript by William Cobbler,

which revealed that the monarch

actually had two more wives (Marie

of Normandy and Bettina of Bristol)

before he married Katherine Howerd.

The comedy, shown on ITV3 today,

featured these twenty-two Doctor

Who cast connections:

• for Sims (Marie) see Carry On Nurse
• for Windsor (Bettina) and Gertan Klauber (Bidet) see Carry On Spying
• Alan Curtis (Conte di Pisa here; Police Chief in Carry On Abroad) and [Alfred Harold] John Doye (Lord) both appeared in The War Machines - as Major Green and Interviewer - Doye was also Extra in (episode 1 of) The Romans, and Cowboy in The Gunfighters
• for Derek Francis (Farmer) see Carry On Doctor
• for Julian Holloway, William Mervyn and Harry Fielder see Follow That Camel
• for Peter Gilmore see Carry On Cabby
• for Alan Harris and Aileen Lewis see Carry On Cruising
• for Butterworth and Michael Stevens see Carry On Cowboy
• for Billy Cornelius and Cliff Culley see Carry On Cleo
• David [Charles] Prowse (Torturer) was the Minotaur in The Time Monster
• Bill McGuirk (Flunkey) and Les Clark (Man) both starred in Terror of the Autons (3), as Policeman and Daffodil Man - McGuirk was also Guard in The Enemy of the World, whilst Clark was Daniel in The Smugglers, and Prison Officer in The Mind of Evil (4)
• Otto Friese (Courtier) was an Extra in The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• Mick [Patrick] Dillon (Man here; Rider in Carry On Cowboy) was a Dalek operator on Dr. Who and the Daleks
• Stuart Fell (Rider) was a stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1) and The Ribos Operation (1), then fight arranger on The Talons of Weng-Chiang and State of Decay, and had roles in thirty-three other episodes (from The Claws of Axos to The Invasion of Time)