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Carry On stalwart, Barbara Windsor
Carry On stalwart, Barbara Windsor

The Carry On series consisted of thirty-one films, three Christmas specials, one television series of thirteen episodes, and three West End and provincial stage plays as part of a wider franchise. Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas were the series' sole producer and director respectively who mostly employed the same crew and group of actors. Much of the series' humour came from the use of innuendo and double entendre, provided by seven writers, who produced the material for all the output, between 1958 and 1992. The Carry On films were distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated (1958 – 66), and the Rank Organisation (1967 – 78); they were all made at Pinewood Studios. The series comprises the largest number of films of any British film series and, next to the James Bond films, are the second-longest continually-running UK film series. (Full list...)