Richard Webber - The Complete A–Z of Everything Carry On

BOGGS: Goodbye, Mr Allcock.

(As ALLCOCK and VIC go out.)

SID: Well, all I can say is, whoever named him knew what he was doing!

CARRY ON AGAIN DOCTOR

Alternative titles … Where There’s A Pill There’s A Way, The Bowels Are Ringing, If You Say It’s Your Thermometer I’ll Have To Believe You, But It’s A Funny Place To Put It

A Peter Rogers production

Distributed through Rank Organisation Released as an A certificate in 1969 in colour

Running time: 89 mins

CAST

PRODUCTION TEAM

Screenplay by Talbot Rothwell

Music composed and conducted by Eric Rogers

Production Manager: Jack Swinburne

Art Director: John Blezard

Editor: Alfred Roome

Director of Photography: Ernest Steward BSC

Camera Operator: James Bawden

Assistant Editor: Jack Gardner

Continuity: Susanna Merry

Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway

Assistant Director: Ivor Powell

Sound Recordists: Bill Daniels and Ken Barker

Hairdresser: Stella Rivers

Costume Designer: Anna Duse

Dubbing Editor: Colin Miller

Producer: Peter Rogers

Director: Gerald Thomas

Applying the final touches to Ernest Stoppidge (Charles Hawtrey)

Down to the bare facts for Barbara Windsor

At the Long Hampton Hospital, Dr Nookey seems to attract trouble, beginning with an incident in the women’s washroom, which he’d mistakenly entered, frightening the highly-strung Miss Armitage out of her senses. Nookey’s carefree manner isn’t to everyone’s liking at the hospital, with Dr Stoppidge wanting Nookey sacked for the washroom incident; there isn’t any love lost between Nookey and Dr Carver either, but Carver ignores Stoppidge’s request for Nookey’s sacking.

Carver, meanwhile, has his sights set on his own private clinic where he can treat affluent private patients, like Ellen Moore, a lonely widow who’s longing for a little romance in her life again; in Carver she sees a man who might provide that, but all he’s interested in is finding a way not to her heart, but her purse; he wants her to turn his dream into reality by financing the Frederick Carver Foundation and tries to woo her, courtesy of a few chat-up lines borrowed from Dr Nookey, at the hospital’s grand buffet and dance. His plans fail dismally.

When she asks Carver to find a replacement for the doctor’s post in a medical mission she established on the far-off Beatific Islands, he thinks it’s impossible to find someone daft enough to work in such an outpost, but then his mind focuses on Dr Nookey. When the young doctor, who has his drinks spiked by Dr Stoppidge, causes more mayhem at the hospital, he faces the hospital’s disciplinary committee. Spotting an opportunity to fill Mrs Moore’s vacancy at her mission, Dr Carver appeases the committee’s concerns over Nookey by offering him a last chance to save his career. Within hours he’s flying off to the Beatific Islands, tiny specks of land battered by rain and hurricanes; he soon realises his life is in the doldrums, that is until he discovers something which will make his fortune in England. Courtesy of an unsuspecting Gladstone Screwer, a serum causing drastic weight loss within days makes Nookey a millionaire when he finally returns to home shores and forms his own private clinic in partnership with none other than Ellen Moore.

Carver, meanwhile, who’d travelled to the islands to check on Dr Nookey, is lucky to escape with his life when the schooner he was travelling in, the Bella Vista, founders off the coast in a terrible storm. He faces more bad luck when he eventually returns home to find his dreams of a private clinic shattered by Nookey. Desperate to find out the constituent parts of the magic weight-losing serum, he hatches a plan to send his colleague, Dr Stoppidge, into the clinic disguised as a woman, but his scheme backfires. Dr Nookey’s good luck is challenged, too, when Gladstone Screwer, realising Nookey is on to a winner exchanging the serum for 200 cigarettes, turns up for a slice of the profits.

A quick chat before the cameras roll

ALLCOCK, SARAH

Played by Joan Sims

Miss Allcock teaches PE at Maudlin Street Secondary Modern School. Seen in Teacher , this judo expert isn’t to be messed around, as Alistair Grigg, the child psychiatrist, discovers. Before the end of term, though, she ends up falling for Grigg.

ALLEN, ANDREA

Role: Minnie in Cowboy

Born in Glasgow in 1946, Andrea Allen made sporadic appearances on the screen during the late 1960s and ’70s, including brief roles in films such as The Wrong Box, For Men Only, She’ll Follow You Anywhere, Invasion: UFO, Vampira and Spanish Fly. On television, she was seen in, among others, Jason King.

Allen, who’s no longer in the profession, lives abroad.

ALLEN, PATRICK

Narrator on Don’t Lose Your Head , Doctor and Up The Khyber

Actor Patrick Allen, born in Malawi in 1927, has one of the most recognisable voices in the business, thanks to years spent narrating films, adverts and documentaries.