Carry On Dick apparently successful in wiping out crime and lawlessness – using all manner of traps and tricks to round the criminals up. However their main target is the notorious Richard "Big Dick" Turpin (Sid James), a highwayman who has evaded capture and succeeded in even robbing Sir Roger and his prim wife (Margaret Nolan) of their money and clothing. After this humiliation, Turpin becomes the Bow Street Runners' most wanted man, and thus Captain Fancey is assigned to go undercover and catch the famous Dick Turpin and bring him to justice. The Bow Street Runners nearly succeed in apprehending Turpin and
Dick (slang) by the continued use of the word in inoffensive contexts, including as both a given name and a surname, in the popular British dessert spotted dick, in the classic novel "Moby-Dick", and in the "Dick and Jane" series of children's books. Uses such as these have provided a basis for comedy writers to exploit this juxtaposition through double entendre. The word connoted a person of questionable character long before it became a nickname for the penis. For example, in the 1665 satire "The English Rogue" by Richard Head, an unsavory character is referred to as a "dick": An 1869 slang