Carry On Laughing Season 1
Carry on Laughing is a British television comedy series produced in 1975 for ATV. Based on the Carry On films, it was an attempt to address the films' declining cinema attendance by transferring the franchise to television. Many of the original cast members were featured in the series. Carry on Laughing ran for two seasons, the first for six half-hour episodes and the second for seven episodes. The episode Orgy and Bess featured the final Carry On performances of both Sid James and Hattie Jacques. The TV series is not as widely known as the original films, which - by contrast - are broadcast regularly on British television. It is also considered much less successful at transferring the established formula to the small screen than the Carry On Christmas specials. The series was conceived after the departures of two long-serving Carry On contributors: writer Talbot Rothwell and actor Charles Hawtrey. Furthermore, Kenneth Williams declined to appear in the series. Other Carry On regulars only appeared in a minority of episodes: Sid James in only the first four, Hattie Jacques in only one; and Bernard Bresslaw appeared only in the second series. In the absence of Rothwell, other writers were brought in. Lew Schwarz and experienced Carry On writer Dave Freeman each wrote six, while Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh penned Orgy and Bess.
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Carry On Laughing
1975
Carry on Laughing is a British television comedy series produced in 1975 for ATV. Based on the Carry On films, it was an attempt to address the films' declining cinema attendance by transferring the franchise to television. Many of the original cast members were featured in the series. Carry on Laughing ran for two seasons, the first for six half-hour episodes and the second for seven episodes. The episode Orgy and Bess featured the final Carry On performances of both Sid James and Hattie Jacques. The TV series is not as widely known as the original films, which - by contrast - are broadcast regularly on British television. It is also considered much less successful at transferring the established formula to the small screen than the Carry On Christmas specials. The series was conceived after the departures of two long-serving Carry On contributors: writer Talbot Rothwell and actor Charles Hawtrey. Furthermore, Kenneth Williams declined to appear in the series. Other Carry On regulars only appeared in a minority of episodes: Sid James in only the first four, Hattie Jacques in only one; and Bernard Bresslaw appeared only in the second series. In the absence of Rothwell, other writers were brought in. Lew Schwarz and experienced Carry On writer Dave Freeman each wrote six, while Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh penned Orgy and Bess.
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Carry On Laughing Season 1 Full Episode Guide
When Lord Peter Flimsy receives a telegram from his friend, Amelia Forbush, which indicates that there is trouble brewing, he heads off with his trusty sidekick, Punter, to offer his help.
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Worthy knight Ethelred accompanies the inventor of a new secret weapon, a monk by the name of Athelstan, to the battlefields at Hastings to deliver the device to King Harold himself.
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Queen Elizabeth I seeks advice from her good friend, Sir Francis Drake, following a surprise proposal from Philip of Spain.
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Dedicated Royalists Sir Jethro and Lady Kate Houndsbotham are dismayed when they receive a visit from Oliver Cromwell.
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Baron Hubert and Lady Isobel, the keepers of possibly the most decrepit castle ever, are caught on the hop when a new castle inspector pays a visit.
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Newly-weds Arnold and Vera Basket find themselves mixed up with a sinister case of sabotage when they honeymoon in Pluritania.
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