Doctor Who Vs. Carry On @ 65: Carry On Sergeant

The series of low-budget British comedy features, the iconic Carry

On films, began in 1958 with Carry On Sergeant - shown on Sky

Cinema today.

Based on the play, The Bull Boys, by English novelist RF Delderfield,

Sergeant was not intended to launch a franchise, but due to it's box-

office success, another production, Carry On Nurse, followed a year

later. A further twenty-seven films were released over the next

twenty years, and a final entry, Carry On Columbus was released in

1992.

The cast, led by William Hartnell (pictured as the titular officer,

Grimshawe, and joined here by his co-stars from Granada's The

Army Game, Norman Rossington and Charles Hawtrey), featured

Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Shirley Eaton,

Bob Monkhouse, Bill Owen, Terry Scott, and ten future Doctor Who

guest actors:

• Gerald [Theron] Campion (Calloway) was Wilkin in Shada
• [Albert] Martin Boddey (Specialist here; Perkins in Carry On Nurse) was Robert Walker in The Sea Devils
• Bernard [Frederic Bemrose] Kay (Injured Recruit) was Carl Tyler in The Dalek Invasion of Earth, Saladin in The Crusade, DI Crossland in The Faceless Ones, and Caldwell in Colony in Space, then voiced Major Dickens for Big Finish's Night Thoughts (2006)
• Leon Eagles (Recruit) was Jabel in The Face of Evil
• Derek Martinus [born Buitenhuis] (Recruit) was the director of Galaxy 4, Mission to the Unknown, The Tenth Planet, The Evil of the Daleks, The Ice Warriors and Spearhead from Space
• Ivor Danvers (Recruit) voiced Wendle Marr for Nekromanteia (2003), Dr. John Dee for A Storm of Angels (2005), and Professor Gareth Edmons for Buried Secrets (2006)
• Norman Huntley (Recruit) was Ulf in The Time Meddler, and Sergeant Peters in The Invasion
• Don McCorkindale (Recruit here; Tubby in Carry On Cabby) voiced Don Fabrizio for The Ghosts of N-Space, and Porthintus for The Wreck of the World (2017)
• Rodney Cardiff (Recruit here; Commuter in Carry On Cabby; Guest in Carry On Loving; Outpatient in Carry On Matron) was the Draconian Emperor in (episode 5 of) Frontier in Space
• Reg Thomason (Soldier here; Porter in Carry On Nurse; Operator in Carry On Constable; Passenger in Carry On Cruising; Officer in Carry On Jack; Citizen in Carry On Cleo; Patron in Carry On Cowboy; Guest in Carry On Loving; Councillor in Carry On Girls; Audience in Carry On Behind) was a Resistance Man in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD
• Joan Ellacott (dress designer here & Carry On Nurse, then costume designer on Carry On Regardless; Carry On Cruising; Carry On Cabby; Carry On Jack) was assigned to The Deadly Assassin 

Later Carry On films starred Jon Pertwee (4 appearances), and

series stalwarts also with Doctor Who connections are Joan Sims

(24), Peter Butterworth (16), Bernard Bresslaw (14), Peter Gilmore 

(11), Julian Holloway, Billy Cornelius (8 each), Gertan Klauber (7),

Derek Francis (6), Victor Maddern (5), June Whitfield, Angela

Douglas (4 each), Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Cope (3 each), as 

well as Windsor Davies, Roy Castle, Francis De Wolff, Maureen 

Lipman, Nigel Planer, Alexei Sayle, Beryl Reid, Wanda Ventham, 

Ray Brooks, Jeremy Bulloch, Sheila Hancock, Tutte Lemkow,

William Mervyn, George Layton and many others.