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Carry On Doctor. Image shows from L to R: Matron (Hattie Jacques), Francis Bigger (Frankie Howerd), Dr. Tinkle (Kenneth Williams). Copyright: Peter Rogers Productions
Carry On Doctor

Carry On Doctor

  • 1968 film

Frankie Howerd joins the Carry On regulars in a hospital-based adventure. With Sid James, Jim Dale and Kenneth Williams. Also features Charles Hawtrey, Barbara Windsor, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques and Anita Harris

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Carry On Doctor trivia

A portrait above the hospital lifts depicts James Robertson Justice, who played the formidable Sir Lancelot Spratt in the Carry Ons rival Doctor series of films. The painting bears the legend "Sir James R. Justice - Founder".

Carry On producer Peter Rogers' wife Betty Box was behind the Doctor films, whilst Carry On director Gerald Thomas's brother Ralph was their director.

Joan Sims was originally offered the part of Matron, whilst Kenneth Williams was initially disinterested in the role of Dr. Tinkle.

Some sources give the release of Carry On Doctor as December 1967, whilst others have a specific date in March 1968.

Sid James took to his bed in the untaxing role of Charlie Roper after having suffered a major heart attack just a few months before filming began (September 1967).

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