Carry on Laughing was a television sitcom produced for ATV which featured several stars of the famous Carry On comedy film series. Two series of six and seven episodes respectively were broadcast in 1975. All the episodes had historical settings, and several episodes used the same scenarios. The series marked an important landmark in Carry On history as the episode Orgy and Bess featured the final Carry On performances of both Sid James and Hattie Jacques. The acronym ATV can refer to: all-terrain vehicle - the land equivalent of a personal watercraft or jet ski amateur television - a broadcast-quality television service for amateur radio operators analog television América Televisión - a Peruvian television network Atlantic Television - a CTV-affiliated regional television service for the... Carry On was a straight edge hardcore punk band from California. ... Sid James (8 May 1913 - 26 April 1976) was a film and television actor. ... Josephine Edwina Jacques (February 7, 1922 - October 6, 1980), better known by the stage name Hattie Jacques, was a British comedy actress born in Sandgate, Kent. ...

The series is hardly considered vintage Carry On, coming as it did after the departures from the film series of long-serving Carry On writer Talbot Rothwell and popular actor Charles Hawtrey. Furthermore, Kenneth Williams declined to appear, and of the Carry On regulars who did appear, Bernard Bresslaw did not feature in the first series, Sid James only appeared in four episodes and Hattie Jacques only appeared in one. The series is thought to be a far less successful attempt at transferring the Carry On formula to the small screen than the Carry On Christmas specials. There have been two notable actors named Charles Hawtrey: Sir Charles Hawtrey (1858-1923), stage and silent film actor; Charles Hawtrey (1914-1988), who named himself after the earlier actor, and is best known for the Carry On films. ... Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 - 15 April 1988) was a British comic actor, star of over twenty films and notable radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as a witty raconteur on a wide range of subjects. ... Bernard Bresslaw (February 25, 1934 - June 11, 1993) was an English actor who was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. ... The Carry On Christmas Specials were five one-off sitcoms produced for Thames Television between the 1960s and 1980s, and were an attempt to bring the formula of the long running Carry On film series to the small screen. ...

In the absence of Rothwell, other writers were brought in to script the episodes. Len Schwarz and experienced Carry On scribe Dave Freeman wrote six apiece, and Barry Cryer and Dick Vosburgh penned Orgy and Bess. courtesy of KSN.com Dave Freeman is the Chief Meteorologist for KSNW-TV in Wichita, KS, and is perhaps one of the best known television personalities in the state of Kansas. ... Barry Cryer (born March 23, 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a writer and comedian. ...

The series provided an opportunity for David Lodge, little more than a bit-part player in some of the later Carry On films, to play leading characters.

Confusingly, Carry On Laughing was also the name of a Carry On stage play performed in Scarborough in 1976 and featuring series regulars Jack Douglas, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth and Liz Fraser. Jack Douglas in an influential American record producer. ... Kenneth Connor, MBE (6 June 1916 – 28 November 1993) was a British comedy film and TV actor, best known for the Carry On films. ... Peter Butterworth Peter Butterworth (February 4, 1919 - January 16, 1979) was an English comic actor who appeared in many of the Carry On films. ... Liz Fraser (born August 14, 1933) is a British actress, from London. ...

Carry On Laughing was also the title of a series of television programmes shown by Thames Television from 1981 to 1983, featuring classic clips from the Carry On film series. In 1983 a Christmas speical of this series was made, entitled Carry On Laughing's Christmas Classics. This episode, as well as featuring classic film clips, also featured newly filmed introductions featuring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor. The classic Thames Television logo (1969 - 1989), featuring a geographically incorrect montage of London landmarks. ... Barbara Windsor MBE (born Barbara-Ann Deeks on August 6, 1937, in Shoreditch, London) is a British actress. ...

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ATV had already helped to bring the Carry Ons to the small screen in 1973, when it broadcast What A Carry On, a one-off show hosted by Shaw Taylor and featuring clips from the stage play Carry On London and interviews with its stars - Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw, Kenneth Connor, Peter Butterworth and Jack Douglas. What A Carry On was also the title of a BBC series of classic clips from the films. The acronym ATV can refer to: all-terrain vehicle - the land equivalent of a personal watercraft or jet ski amateur television - a broadcast-quality television service for amateur radio operators analog television América Televisión - a Peruvian television network Atlantic Television - a CTV-affiliated regional television service for the... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...