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Carry On Camping (1968)

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There are three periods to Carry On. Early on, they were typical British light comedy capers, hardly risqué. By the 1970s, the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness, culminating in 1977's Carry On Emanuelle. 1969's Carry On Camping, thankfully, belongs to the Golden Years. Pretty much everybody is present and correct, if not politically. Sid James is a likely-ish, if slightly elderly lad, persuading Joan Sims to join him at what he secretly expects to be a nudist colony. Terry Scott is a put-upon suburbian, coerced into outdoor vacations by his ghastly, horsey-laughed wife, while Charles Hawtrey is the campest of campers who befriends them. Kenneth Williams, who alone makes this worth watching, is gloriously ridiculous as head of a girl's school, Chayste Place, with Hattie Jacques as Matron and Barbara Windsor as one of the 30 year old fifth formers in their charge. Technically it's terrible stuff, with Barbara Windsor's flying bra, laboured puns galore, peeping tomfoolery, punchlines visible two miles off, "comedy" incidental music and a reactionary denouement in which they chase off a bunch of hippies. Yet if you don't chuckle at least half a dozen times during this, however many times you've seen it, there's probably something wrong with you.

All our characters arrive at a holiday camping site for different motives, but nothing goes according to plan.

Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, et al.
Director: Gerald Thomas

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• Colour, PAL

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Wombles, The - Camping And Cloudberries And Other Stories [1997]

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Four brand new Womble adventures celebrating twenty-five years since their first TV appearance: 'Camping And Cloudberries', 'Madame Cholet's Day Off', 'Shansi's Surprise' and 'MacWomble Is Coming'.

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Starring: The Wombles, et al

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