Doctor Who Vs. Carry On Follow That Camel

When the Rank Organisation 
adopted the Carry On franchise

in 1966, they sought to improve

the low-brow image of the brand

by removing the famous prefix.

Released in 1967, the fourteenth

production from the comedy

stable was a parody of PC Wren's

much-filmed 1924 adventure

novel, Beau Geste, and other

French Foreign Legion movies.

The title was producer Peter

Roger's attempt to break into the

American market, so Phil Silvers

was cast as Sergeant Nocker

(originally written for Sid James),

his sole appearance in the series.

Stalwarts Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Charles

Hawtrey, Jim Dale, and Peter Butterworth were joined here by Angela

Douglas (in her third of four roles) and newcomer Anita Harris. Shown

on ITV3 today, the comedy featured eighteen Doctor Who cast

connections:

• for Douglas and Butterworth see Carry On Screaming!
• for Sims and Bresslaw see Carry On Nurse
• for Julian Holloway and Simon Cain see Carry On At Your Convenience
• for Peter Gilmore and Gertan Klauber see Carry On Cleo
• William Mervyn [born Pickwoad] (Ponsonby here; Paragon in Carry On Again Doctor; Physician in Carry On Henry) was Sir Charles Summer in The War Machines
• Jo Rowbottom (Harem) was Mollie Dawson in The Evil of the Daleks
• William Hurndell (Raff here & What a Carry On) was Ike Clanton in The Gunfighters
• Elizabeth Counsell (Harem girl) voiced Abigail Woburn for Big Finish's The Hourglass Killers (2012)
• Edmund [Cyril Colbeck] Pegge (Bowler) was Meeker in (part 1 of) The Invisible Enemy
• Harry Fielder (Legionnaire here; Burpa in Up the Khyber; Guard in Carry On Henry; Monk in Carry On Abroad; Man in Carry On Dick) was Guard (in seven stories), Crewman (The Wheel in Space & The Invisible Enemy), Vogan in Revenge of the Cybermen, Assassin in The Face of Evil, Tigellan in Meglos, and Krarg in Shada
• stunt double Roy Scammell was UNIT Soldier and Technician in The Ambassadors of Death, RSF Soldier in Inferno, stuntman on Terror of the Autons (1), Prison Officer and UNIT Motorcyclist in The Mind of Evil, and stunt arranger on Delta and the Bannermen (1)
• for Juba Kennerley see Carry On Cabby