Carry On (franchise) Carry On (franchise) The Carry On series primarily consists of 31 British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four Christmas specials, a television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays. The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the Carry On team, that included Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth, Hattie Jacques, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw, Barbara Windsor, Jack Douglas, and Jim Dale. The "Carry On" series contains
Kenneth Williams the news, Kenneth went on stage in the West End. The coroner's court recorded a verdict of accidental death due to corrosive poisoning by carbon tetrachloride. Kenneth believed his father had committed suicide as the circumstances leading to the poisoning seemed unlikely to have happened by bad luck. Williams would later be denied a visa to the United States, when it emerged that Scotland Yard kept a file on him relating to his father's death - the suspicion that he had poisoned his father. Williams insisted that he was celibate and his diaries substantiate his claims—at least from his early