Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Up The Khyber

The Carry On franchise consists of thirty low-budget British comedy features, produced from 1958 to 1978, whilst a final title (Carry On Columbus) was 
released in 1992. Thames Television later screened four Carry On Christmas
 specials between 1969 and 1973, followed by Carry On Laughing from ATV in 1975. The series also spawned three West End (1973-75) and regional stage plays (1976 and 1992), and even an album in 1971.

Anglo Amalgamated Films produced the first dozen titles (until 1966), and 

the Rank Organisation made the next nineteen. Writer Norman Hudis scripted the first six films, then was replaced by Talbot Rothwell who penned the next 

twenty. Every film was made at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with 

most location filming undertaken nearby.

The films' humour (albeit dated and sexist by modern standards) was in 
the comic tradition of the British music halls and bawdy seaside postcards.
Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas made all thirty-one films, 

and drew on their own repertory company of actors that included Kenneth 

Williams (who made 25 appearances), Joan Sims (24), Charles Hawtrey
 (23), Sid James (19), Kenneth Connor (17), Peter Butterworth (16), Hattie Jacques, Bernard Bresslaw (14 each), Jim Dale, Peter Gilmore (11 each), 
Barbara Windsor (10), Patsy Rowlands (9), Jack Douglas (8), and Terry 
Scott (7).
TV documentary What a Carry On? marked the fortieth anniversary of the 
series in 1998, and BBC Radio 2 broadcast a two-part celebration in 2010. 
ITV screened a three-part retrospective, also titled Carry On Forever, over 
Easter 2015 - shown on ITV3 today as part as a festive Carry On season.

The sixteenth instalment in the 
franchise was released in 1968, 
and is now widely considered 
one of the best entries in the run.

Regular series actors Sid James
(as Sir Sydney Ruff Diamond),
Kenneth Williams (the Khasi of
Kalabar), Joan Sims (Lady Joan), Charles Hawtrey (Private Widdle), Bernard Bresslaw (Bungit Din) and Peter Butterworth (Belcher) were joined by Angela Douglas (Princess Jelhi) in her fourth and final series role. Terry Scott (Sgt. Major MacNutt) returned after a minor role in Carry On Sergeant.

The comedy was a spoof of  the Kiplingesque portrayal of life in the British Raj,
and the Highland infantry (the Third Foot and Mouth Regiment) was inspired
by the epic British war film Zulu (1964). In typical risqué tradition, the film's
title (Khyber Pass) is rhyming-slang for arse.

The film (the second most popular release at the UK box office in 1969) was
shown today for ITV3's Easter Carry On season, and featured Roy Castle
(as romantic lead Captian Keene) and sixteen Doctor Who cast alumni:

• Castle (1932-1994) played Ian Chesterton in Dr. Who and the Daleks
• for Douglas see Carry On Screaming!
• David Spenser (Servant) was Thonmi in The Abominable Snowmen
• Derek Sydney (Major Domo) was Sevcheria in The Romans
• Steven Scott (Guard) was Kebble in The Power of the Daleks
• John Hallam (Burpa) was Light in Ghost Light
• Alan Bennion (Burpa) was Slaar in The Seeds of Death, Izlyr in The Curse of Peladon, and Azaxyr in The Monster of Peladon
• for Wanda Ventham (Wife), Peter Gilmore (Hale) and Walter Henry (Burpa) see Carry On Cleo
• Dinny Powell (Burpa) was a stuntman on (episode 1 of) Terror of the Autons, and Guard in The Curse of Peladon (4) and Genesis of the Daleks (3)
• for Julian Holloway (Shorthouse) and Simon Cain (Soldier) see Carry On At Your Convenience
• for Harry Fielder (Burpa) see Carry On Abroad
• for Aileen Lewis (Spectator) see Carry On Cruising
• Alf Mangan (Burpa here; Townsman in Carry On Cowboy; Assistant in Don't Lose Your Head; Camper in Carry On Camping; Audience in Carry On Girls) was an Extra in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD