Carry On Laughing to play leading characters. ATV had already helped to bring the "Carry On"s to the small screen in 1973, when it broadcast "What A Carry On", a one-off show hosted by Shaw Taylor featuring clips from the stage play "Carry On London" and interviews with its stars - Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth and Jack Douglas. It is believed that this footage is missing from the archives. "What A Carry On" was also the title of a BBC series of classic clips from the films. The title "Carry On Laughing" was also used for: The
Carry On (franchise) (and even featured Joan Sims in the cast) it has no connection to the "Carry On" series itself. The much earlier 1937 film "Carry On London" is also unrelated (though it coincidentally starred future "Carry On" performer Eric Barker). The cast were poorly paid—around £5,000 per film for a principal performer. In his diaries, Kenneth Williams lamented this, and criticised several of the movies despite his declared fondness for the series as a whole. Peter Rogers, the series' producer, acknowledged: "Kenneth was worth taking care of, because while he cost very little <nowiki>[...]</nowiki> he made a very great deal of