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Carry On Doctor

Carry On Doctor

  • Status: Released
  • 02-12-1967
  • Runtime: 94 min
  • Score: 6.5
  • Vote count: 77

Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos.

Frankie Howerd

Mr. Francis Bigger

Sid James

Mr. Charlie Roper

Charles Hawtrey

Mr. Barron

Kenneth Williams

Dr. Kenneth Tinkle

Jim Dale

Dr. Jim Kilmore

Barbara Windsor

Trainee Nurse Sandra May

Joan Sims

Chloe Gibson

Bernard Bresslaw

Mr. Ken Biddle

Hattie Jacques

Lavinia, the Matron

Anita Harris

Nurse Clarke

Peter Butterworth

Mr. Smith

June Jago

Sister Hoggett

Derek Francis

Sir Edmund Burke

Dandy Nichols

Mrs. Roper

Peter Jones

Chaplain

Deryck Guyler

Mr. Hardcastle

Gwendolyn Watts

Mrs. Barron

Dilys Laye

Mavis Winkle

Peter Gilmore

Henry

Harry Locke

Sam

Marianne Stone

Mother

Jean St. Clair

Mrs. Smith

Valerie Van Ost

Nurse Parkin

Julian Orchard

Fred

Brian Wilde

Man from Cox & Carter

Lucy Griffiths

Miss Morris

Gertan Klauber

Wash Orderly

Julian Holloway

Simmons

Jennifer White

Nurse in Bath

Helen Ford

Nurse

Gordon Rollings

Night Porter

Patrick Allen

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Bart Allison

Granddad (uncredited)

Frances Baker

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Simon Cain

Tea Orderly (uncredited)

Valerie Cockx

Patient (uncredited)

Pat Coombs

Anxious Patient (uncredited)

Alexandra Dane

Antenatal Instructor (uncredited)

Hugh Elton

Visitor (uncredited)

Ernest Fennemore

Junior Doctor (uncredited)

Eden Fox

Outpatient (uncredited)

Stephen Garlick

Boy (uncredited)

Jill Goldston

Nurse (uncredited)

Pat Hagan

Patient (uncredited)

Walter Henry

Visitor (uncredited)

Penelope Keith

Plain Nurse (uncredited)

Roy Lansford

Visitor (uncredited)

Jay McGrath

Visitor (uncredited)

Cheryl Molineaux

Women's Ward Nurse (uncredited)

Jane Murdoch

Nurse (uncredited)

Edith Raye

Visitor (uncredited)

Jack Ross

Visitor (uncredited)

Johnny Rossi

Patient (uncredited)

Peggy Scott Sanders

Woman in Audience (uncredited)

Robin Scott

Patient (uncredited)

George Spence

Patient (uncredited)

Guy Standeven

Orderly (uncredited)

Philip Stewart

Man in Audience (uncredited)

Laura Thurlow

Nurse (uncredited)

James Ure

Man in Crowd (uncredited)

Leslie Weeks

Porter (uncredited)

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A largely overpowering Frankie Howerd heads the cast for this slightly revamped version of "Carry On Nurse" (1959) as the crooked preacher who ends up in hospital after a posterior altercation leaves him a bit bruised. When he gets to the hospital - where everything happens under the watchful gaze of the portrait of "Sir Lancelot Spratt" - he alights on "Roper" (Sid James) and "Barron" (Charles Hawtrey) and encounters the ruthless matron (Hattie Jacques). She resurrects her established partnership with Kenneth Williams' doctor - this time he's called "Tinkle" and the scene is now set for some fairly standard fayre of mischief and mayhem. Jim Dale features a little too frequently for me - I found his efforts just too busy and frenetic - as the bumbling "Dr. Kilmore" who is the apple in the eye of the nurses, especially "Miss Clarke" (Anita Harris) and so the seeds of romance are sewn. It's all a bit same old, same old, this comedy - but the last twenty minutes or so give them all a chance to shine as revenge is taken and Williams, in particular, gets a little more than he bargained for. It's quickly paced and there is plenty of innuendo but here I found the script a bit more akin to the traditional films - less smut and more fun. A power struggle with anaesthetics - what's not to like?