Carry On Christmas Specials Christmas special, "Carry On Christmas". Talbot Rothwell made a return as the writer, as did Sid James. This was the only special to have a modern-day setting, featuring Sid James as a department store Father Christmas, although it did feature historical sketches. It would be ten years before the next Christmas special. "Carry On Laughing's Christmas Classics" saw Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor introduce some of the funniest moments from the later Carry On films, in a format very similar to the film "That's Carry On!". In 2005, the first four specials were released on DVD, featuring interviews with film
Carry On (franchise) "Carry On Cleo" (1964), after the Burton and Taylor epic "Cleopatra" (1963), where the budget-conscious "Carry On" team made full use of some impressive sets which had been intended for that film. "Carry On Emmannuelle", inspired by the soft-porn "Emmanuelle", brought to an end the original 'run'. The stock-in-trade of "Carry On" humour was innuendo and the sending-up of British institutions and customs, such as the National Health Service ("Nurse", "Doctor", "Again Doctor", "Matron" and the proposed "Again Nurse"), the monarchy ("Henry"), the Empire ("Up the Khyber"), the armed forces ("Sergeant", "England", "Jack" and the proposed "Flying" and "Escaping"), the