Carry On England
- 1976 film
Captain S Melly is put in charge of a troublesome mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery during World War II, tasked with getting the troops into shape. Stars Kenneth Connor, Windsor Davies, Judy Geeson, Patrick Mower, Jack Douglas and more.
Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1976
- Stars
- Kenneth Connor, Windsor Davies, Judy Geeson, Patrick Mower, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims, Melvyn Hayes, Peter Butterworth and more
- Writers
- David Pursall and Jack Seddon
- Director
- Gerald Thomas
- Producer
- Peter Rogers
- Company
It is 1940 and the height of the Second World War. Somewhere in the south of England, Captain S. Melly has been sent to an experimental mixed-sex anti-aircraft battery. His mission? To instil a sense of order in the troops, who are more concerned with capturing the opposite sex than the enemy.
Melly's unforgiving attempts to whip his men and women into shape are met with a brick wall of in-cooperation, however. It seems the recruits of 1313 battery are more than happy with their cushy life just as it is, thank you very much: the only action they're concerned with engaging in is in the bedroom!
Despite the best endeavours of Melly's second-in-command, Sergeant Major Bloomer, the two groups - lead by Sgt. Tilly Willing and Sgt. Leonard Able - prove as unbending for him as they have been for his predecessors and attempt every trick in the book, from feigning illness to sabotaging their new commander's clothing.
Meanwhile, German planes are coming into view - not the best of news for an anti-aircraft installation that has yet to receive an anti-aircraft gun!
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Additional details
- Tagline
- It's the biggest BANG of the war!
- Part of
- UK certificate
- A
- Duration
- 88 minutes
- UK release
- Wednesday 24th November 1976
- Distributors
- Also known as
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- Carry On Banging (Mistaken name in some contemporary press)
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Colour
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Broadcast details
- All previous repeats
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- Sunday 30th December 2012 at 1:20am on BBC2
- Sunday 13th May 2012 at 12:35am on BBC2
- Sunday 28th August 2011 at 12:45am on BBC2