Carry On Again Doctor

At the Long Hampton Hospital, Dr Jimmy Nookey seems to attract trouble, beginning with an incident where he enters the women's washroom by mistake, frightening the highly-strung Miss Armitage out of her senses. Nookey's carefree manner is not to everyone's liking, with Dr. Stoppidge wanting Nookey sacked for the washroom incident. Accident-prone Nookey then quickly falls in love with a film star patient named Goldie Locks. During some misadventures with the X-ray machine, Nookey triggers a massive short circuit in the hospital's electrical system, resulting in more mayhem. With the sympathetic Matron and his moody boss Dr. Frederick Carver now watching his every move, Dr. Nookey drinks, at a staff party, a fruit punch spiked by jealous Dr. Stoppidge. The drunk Nookey, after almost getting into bed with a patient, ends up on a hospital trolley which crashes through a window. Goldie leaves him because he is not interested in marriage. Meanwhile, Carver and his rich patient Ellen Moore, dispatch the disgraced Nookey to Moore's medical mission in the Beatific Islands, where it rains for nine months of the year. Nookey discovers Gladstone Screwer, the local medicine man, who has a weight-loss serum. Nookey soon returns to England and opens a new surgery with Mrs. Moore, angering Carver. While Matron joins Dr. Nookey's clinic, Carver and Stoppidge plot to try to steal the serum. Stoppidge dresses as a female patient to effect the theft, but his luck runs out when Nookey catches him in the act. Goldie returns to take the serum, much to Nookey's chagrin. Gladstone quickly discovers that Nookey is making a fortune from his serum, and cuts off his supply to deliver the product in person and get in on the action. Nookey prevaricates, so Gladstone gives him a dose, which seems to cause sex changes. The movie ends with Nookey and Goldie getting married at the Moore-Nookey-Gladstone-Carver facility, and the rest of the staff of the Long Hampton Hospital becoming friends again.

The original script for Carry On Again Doctor raised problems with Rank's legal adviser, who felt it was too similar to an unfilmed 'Doctor' script that Talbot Rothwell, writer of Carry On Again Doctor, had previously submitted to producer Betty Box. Most notably, both scenarios featured the medical mission/slimming potion idea. As Box had not taken up the option on Rothwell's 'Doctor' script, however, it was felt there were no legal problems with the use of those ideas in this film.

The opening bars of the title music are the same used for Carry On Camping. During the party scene, Eric Rogers plays "Magic of Love" (from Carry On Spying), "Call Me a Cab" (from Carry On Cabby) and a rumba score which was used in Carry On Abroad.

Eric Rogers arranges the theme from Steptoe and Son when Wilfrid Brambell appears, as he did with Harry H. Corbett in Carry On Screaming.

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• Sid James as Gladstone Screwer
• Jim Dale as Doctor Jimmy Nookey
• Kenneth Williams as Doctor Frederick Carver
• Charles Hawtrey as Doctor Ernest Stoppidge/Lady Puddleton
• Joan Sims as Ellen Moore
• Barbara Windsor as Goldie Locks (real name Maud Boggins)
• Hattie Jacques as Miss Soaper, the Matron
• Patsy Rowlands as Miss Fosdick
• Peter Butterworth as Shuffling patient
• Wilfrid Brambell as Mr Pullen
• Elizabeth Knight as Nurse Willing
• Peter Gilmore as Henry
• Alexandra Dane as Stout woman
• Pat Coombs as New Matron
• William Mervyn as Lord Paragon
• Patricia Hayes as Mrs Beasley
• Lucy Griffiths as Old lady in headphones
• Harry Locke as Porter
• Gwendolyn Watts as Night sister
• Valerie Leon as Deirdre Filkington-Battermore
• Frank Singuineau as Porter
• Valerie Van Ost as Out-Patients Sister
• Simon Cain as X-ray man
• Elspeth March as Hospital board member

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Wilfred Brambell's character was a non-speaking cameo in an early scene. When he appeared, the theme from Steptoe and Son was played over his scene.

• Screenplay – Talbot Rothwell
• Music – Eric Rogers
• Production manager – Jack Swinburne
• Art director – John Blezard
• Editor – Alfred Roome
• Director of photography – Ernest Steward
• Camera operator – James Bawden
• Assistant editor – Jack Gardner
• Continuity – Susanna Merry
• Make-up – Geoffrey Rodway
• Assistant director – Ivor Powell
• Sound recordists – Bill Daniels & Ken Barker
• Hairdresser – Stella Rivers
• Costume designer – Anna Duse
• Dubbing editor – Colin Miller
• Producer – Peter Rogers
• Director – Gerald Thomas

• Filming dates – 17 March – 2 May 1969

Interiors:

• Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire{{Cite web|url=https://www.pinewoodgroup.com/pinewood-today/credits/carry-on-again-doctor|title=Carry On Again Doctor|website=Pinewood Studios}}

Exteriors:

• Maidenhead, where the town hall doubled for the hospital as it previously did in Carry On Doctor.
• Pinewood Studios. Heatherden Hall, the studio management block was used as the exterior for the Moore-Nookey Clinic
• Windsor, Berkshire. Location of Dr Nookey's consulting rooms (the same location featured in Carry On Regardless as the Helping Hands Agency and in Carry On Loving as the Wedded Bliss agency).{{Cite web|url=https://www.reelstreets.com/films/carry-on-again-doctor/|title=Reelstreets | Carry On Again, Doctor|website=www.reelstreets.com}}

When the film was released by American International Pictures in New York in February 1973, they released it under the title Carry on Doctor.{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|date=7 February 1973|title=New York Sound Track|page=22}}

The sequence where Dr Nookie short circuits the hospital's electrical system and the ensuing mayhem formed introduction to the 1980s compilation show Carry On Laughing.

Empire wrote "The fast moving plot and changing locations keep the show moving, and makes this one of the more successful entries in the series."

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Category:Films with screenplays by Talbot Rothwell

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Category:British sex comedy films

Category:English-language sex comedy films