Rhubarb (1969 film) three principals, who would pretend to try to sound like a larger group by repeating "rhubarb" very quickly but clearly, with outbreaks of "Custard!" for good measure. Sykes was a close collaborator and friend of the Goons. He remade the piece in 1980 for Thames Television, as "Rhubarb Rhubarb". A Police Inspector and a vicar play a round of golf. The Police Inspector has a Constable help him to cheat by removing his golf ball from awkward situations, and the vicar ultimately requests divine intervention. Allmovie wrote, "sight gags and pantomime dominate this engaging 37 minute feature." Rhubarb (1969 film)
Hattie Jacques on stage, radio, screen and record made her film debut in an uncredited role in "Green for Danger" in 1946, before working in a number of minor roles in a series of Dickens adaptations. From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in fourteen "Carry On" films, where she was "usually cast as formidable hospital matrons (at least four) or man-devouring predators". Jacques had a long professional partnership with Eric Sykes, with whom she co-starred in two long-running television series, "Sykes and a..." and "Sykes". The couple also produced an album and a single in 1962; a stage show followed between 1976 and 1979, "A Hatful of Sykes".