Carry On - The Complete Collection [DVD] [1958] [30 Film Boxset]

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The Carry On series contains the largest number of films of any British film franchise, and is the second longest running, albeit with a 14-year gap (1978–1992) between the 30th and 31st entries. In The Spitting Image Book, released in 1985, there is a reference to a fictitious made-for-TV film entitled Carry On Up the Rectum, satirising the transparency of the puns used for Carry On Up the Khyber and possibly Carry On Up the Jungle. The production was abandoned when Dallas production company Lorimar Productions demanded a royalty fee of 20 times the total production budget.

The characters and comedy style of the Carry On film series were adapted to a television series titled Carry On Laughing, and several Christmas specials. As of September 2019, three Carry On films were set to be filmed back-to-back, after Brian Baker won the rights to the movies following a legal battle with ITV earlier that year.Carry On Emmannuelle, inspired by the soft-porn Emmanuelle, brought to an end the original Carry On run. A script was written and casting offers made to Williams, Connor, Douglas, Sims, Windsor, Hawtrey and Dale. Baker told the Daily Star Sunday that "we have got two new stories and we are looking to do one of the old ones again to bring it up to modern day quality – probably Carry On Sergeant".

The film was sufficiently successful to inspire a similar venture, again focusing on an established and respected profession in Carry On Nurse.Carry On Down Under was considered when, while on holiday in Australia, Gerald Thomas scouted locations and spoke to the Australian Film Commission about a potential film. However, filming was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and little more was heard about the project until after the death of Barbara Windsor in December 2020, when Baker announced that he would be using old footage of the actress in the film, saying "Barbara will be making an appearance. Carry On Spaceman (1961), scripted by Norman Hudis and planned to be released shortly after Carry On Regardless.

In early 2009, Carry On London or Carry On Bananas was once again 'back on', with Charlie Higson attached as director, and a different, more modern, cast list involving Paul O'Grady (as the acidic Kenneth Williamsesque character), Jynine James, Lenny Henry, Justin Lee Collins, Jennifer Ellison (as the saucy Barbara Windsor type), Liza Tarbuck (paralleling Hattie Jacques), Meera Syal, James Dreyfus, and Frank Skinner (filling in the Sid James role). This initial 'pattern' was broken with the fifth film in 1961, Carry On Regardless, but it still followed a similar plot to that of many of the early films—a small group of misfit newcomers to a job make comic mistakes, but come together to succeed in the end.In 2007, the pun "Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me", spoken by Kenneth Williams (playing Julius Caesar) in Carry on Cleo, was voted the funniest one-line joke in film history. Carry On Don't Lose Your Head' (1966), 'Carry On Follow That Camel' (1967), 'Carry On Doctor' (1967), 'Carry On Up the Khyber' (1968), 'Carry On Camping' (1969), 'Carry On Again Doctor' (1969), 'Carry On Up the Jungle' (1970), 'Carry On Loving' (1970), 'Carry On Henry' (1971), 'Carry On at Your Convenience' (1971), 'Carry On Matron' (1972), 'Carry On Abroad' (1972), 'Carry On Girls' (1973), 'Carry On Dick' (1974), 'Carry On Behind' (1975), 'Carry On England' (1976), 'That's Carry On!