Carry On Cabby her fourth and final appearance. This was the first film in the series to feature "Carry On" regular Jim Dale, and the first not to feature Kenneth Williams in the cast. "Carry On Cabby" was originally planned as a non-Carry On film, called "Call Me A Cab" (after a stage play) but midway through it became part of the "Carry On" series. Charlie Hawkins (Sid James) is the workaholic owner of thriving taxi company "Speedee Taxis", but his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques) feels neglected by him. When Charlie misses their fifteenth wedding anniversary, because he is out cabbing, she decides
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