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-a-Dick the 1880s. Additionally, in "Cricket Walkabout", their book on the 1868 tour, Rex Harcourt and John Mulvaney state that he "probably died about the mid-1890s." A book based on Dick-a-Dick's rescue of the Duff children, "Lost in the Bush", was published and remained on the Victorian school curriculum for many years. A plaque commemorating the role Dick-a-Dick played in the rescue of the children was erected near Mitre Rock, Nhill, Victoria. Dick-a-Dick's great-grandson William John Kennedy was a leading activist for Australian Aboriginal causes who was named "Male Elder of the Year" at the 2003 National NAIDOC Week Awards. Dick-a-Dick