Carry On Laughing which - by contrast - are broadcast regularly on British television. It is also considered much less successful at transferring the established formula to the small screen than the "Carry On Christmas specials". The series was conceived after the departures of two long-serving "Carry On" contributors: writer Talbot Rothwell and actor Charles Hawtrey. Furthermore, Kenneth Williams declined to appear in the series. Other "Carry On" regulars only appeared in a minority of episodes: Sid James in only the first four, Hattie Jacques in only one; and Bernard Bresslaw appeared only in the second series. In the absence of Rothwell, other
Kenneth Crawford 1943. After the War he was made General Officer Commanding British Forces in Greece, then in 1947 he was appointed Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff and in 1949 he became Controller at the Ministry of Supply. In 1952 he was made Chairman of the Royal Ordnance Factories Board of Management; he retired in 1953. He was also Chief Royal Engineer from 1958 to 1961. In retirement he became a Director of Westland Aircraft. Kenneth Crawford General Sir Kenneth Noel Crawford KCB MC (1895–1961) was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1940s. Crawford was commissioned