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Richard Linford 2008 Talbot R Pigeon Post Page 2 a street Aver y Avenue for no FULK ING other reason than giving Sergeant Bung the line in Screaming, "Then we mus t explore Aver y Avenue". Hattie J acques in CARRY ON MATRON tells Dr Cutting (Kenneth Police Force and an RAF pilot It was not intended as a Car r y Williams), "I'm a simple woman gave little indication of a On but its storyline and with s imple tas tes , I want to be glittering showbiz future and it characters were so similar to wooed". To which Williams was becoming a pr isoner of the Carry On style that it was replies, "You can be as wude war in Stalag Luft 3 camp released as CARRY ON CABBY as you like with me!" during World War II, and mar ked an impor tant It was Rothwell who was [immor talised in THE GREAT tur ning point for the series responsible for the ESCAPE] that provided Tolly taking the genre in a more introduction of another Carry with an unorthodox entr y into lewd direction from their first On tradition, the secondary the enter tainment indus tr y. screenwr iter , Nor man Hudis , titles , like LET SLEEPING BAGS Car r y on Fulking! Now that’s Out of boredom, and also to where the r isqué jokes were LIE [Car r y On Camping], LIFE’S a title Carry On producer mask the digging noises fr om no more than a decoration but A FOUR LETTER WARD [Car r y Peter Rogers would have the escape tunnels Tom, Dick in Rothwell's scripts they On Doctor ], MIND MY CHOPPER died to have used! Talbot and Har r y, Tolly wr ote, MC'd became the ver y fabr ic of the [Car r y On Henr y] and FROM Rothwell, who wrote 20 of and per formed in the camp films as he viewed the series HERE TO MATERNITY [ Car r y On the 31 Car r y On films, lived in theatr e in shows with fellow as a continuation of Music Hall Matr on]. Fulking for some years and prisoners Ruper t Davies , tr aditions epitomised by his Apart from being the series built what is now the Malby [later TV’s MAIGRET] and Peter hero Max Miller. He was staff writer including Mansion—surely J ill and Ian Butter wor th, who was to quoted as saying, "I have what Chr is tmas TV s pecials Tolly will have kept the magnificent become a lifelong fr iend as you might call self-imposed also wr ote the s tage play, comedy wallpaper above! well as a Carr y On s talwar t. rules. Nobody ever actually CARRY ON LONDON which ran Tolly, as he was known to his After the war Rothwell took up swears and nobody actually at London’s Vic tor ia Palace friends was a regular at the wr iting pr ofessionally finding succeeds in getting in to bed from 1973- 75 with his [and Sid Shepherd and Dog and a success in the West End with with anyone else." J ames’s] final film being familiar presence around our the s tage plays, Three Spare Tolly was the master of the CARRY ON DICK in 1974. village. Wives , Queen Elizabeth Slept double entendre and delighted Tolly’s deft pen was also According to a profile of Her e, Once Upon A Crime and in creating fast paced gags r esponsible for the firs t series himself he once wr ote, Meet The Wife and wrote for and r idiculous characters with of UP POMPEII! starring "Rothwell, was born at an the Cr azy Gang and radio and even more r idiculous names : Fr ankie Howerd as well as early age to mixed TV shows for Terry Thomas, The Khasi Of Kalabar, Citizen working on the DICK EMERY parentage, one father, one Arthur Askey and Ted Ray. In Bidet, Senna Pod, Emmannuelle SHOW. He was given the THIS mother ", on the 12th 1963 he offered Carry On Prevert and J ock Strapp to IS YOUR LIFE treatment on ITV November 1916 in Br omley, producer Peter Rogers his name but a few, which adds to in 1970 and after an OBE in Kent. He claims to have script called Follow That Cab. the overall fun of the series. 1977 for his services to the dropped his first ghastly pun "By this time tomorr ow," says cinema indus tr y he r etir ed and at the age of 9 after a Citizen Camember t, s tanding left Fulking to live in Wor thing unsuccess ful newt-fishing gleefully by the guillotine in where he died on 28 th tr ip, "No newts , is good Don't Lose Your Head, "the Duc February 1981 after a long newts !" which s till made him Of Pomfrit will have had his illness. He had two children. smile enough to be included chips!" In Cleo we have the Does anyone have any stories in CARRY ON MATRON many slave sellers Mar kus and about his time in Fulking? And year s later , but his ear ly Spencius and Kenneth Williams what dates did he live here? working life as a clerk at shouting the immor tal “Infamy! Please email me: Brighton Town Hall, a Infamy! They’ve all got it in for member of the Pales tine me!” and who else but r ichar d.linfor d@vir gin.net Rothwell would think of calling .
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