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Carry On (franchise)

Carry On
Carry On logo illustration.jpg
Directed by Gerald Thomas
Produced by Peter Rogers
Written by Norman Hudis (1958–62)
Talbot Rothwell (1963–74)
Starring Kenneth Williams
Joan Sims
Charles Hawtrey
Sid James
Kenneth Connor
Peter Butterworth
Bernard Bresslaw
Hattie Jacques
Jim Dale
Marianne Stone
Barbara Windsor
Patsy Rowlands
Jack Douglas
Terry Scott
Bill Owen
Leslie Phillips
And The Other Cast...
Music by Bruce Montgomery (1958–62)
Eric Rogers (1963–75, 1978)
Max Harris (1976)
Kenneth Williams (1977)
Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated
Rank Organisation
Release date
1958–1978, 1992, 2017
Running time
2776 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Carry On franchise primarily consists of a sequence of 31 low-budget British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays. The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the Carry On team, that included Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas and Jim Dale.

The Carry On series contains the largest number of films of any British series; and it is the longest continually running UK film series although with a fourteen-year break (1978–92). Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors Ltd produced twelve films (1958–66), and the Rank Organisation made the remaining nineteen (1967–92).

Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas made all 31 films, usually on time and to a strict budget, and often employed the same crew. Between 1958 and 1992, the series employed seven writers, most often Norman Hudis (1958–62) and Talbot Rothwell (1963–74). In between the films, Rogers and Thomas produced four Christmas specials in 1969, 1970, 1972 and 1973, a thirteen episode television series in 1975 and various West End stage shows which later toured the regions.


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