Bless This House (UK TV series) and more pre-occupied with protests than finding a job; and trendy schoolgirl Sally. Sally is 16 at the series' start, and Mike is 18. Sid and Jean constantly battle to comprehend the new generation's permissive ways and are usually out-of-touch. Their neighbours and best friends are Trevor and his wife Betty. A film version of the TV series was made in 1972. While it still starred Diana Coupland and Sid James as the Abbotts, Robin Askwith, who had previously appeared in the TV series, played Mike instead of TV series regular Robin Stewart due to the latter being unable to
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