Synopsis
Being the first in
the TV series to have less of the regulars in it, this show had a lot to
live up to and bearing in mind the people who were missing (Sid James,
Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques and Peter Butterworth) it didn’t do too
badly. The comedy was more heavy-handed and the show’s double act of
Jack Douglas and Kenneth Connor infuse a large dose of Carry On innuendo
playing it out in a love-hate cross-talking banter that works very well.
The only problem is if you are tuning in to watch this
you want it full of Carry Oners - you can see the parts were written for
Carry On Regulars in mind (Nellie's character is obviously written for
Barbara Windsor).
Again, not much story to the script, with Jack Douglas and Kenneth
Connor bravely lugging a secret weapon across the country to King
Harold’s troops. The secret weapon is milked for comic reference as the
‘You Know What’ with Jack relishing his ‘Alf’ twitters and jitterings.
Kenneth starts the show as a calm man of God and progressively
transforms into his bumbling ‘Mr Bumble’ character from ‘Girls’ with a
bit of ‘Hengist Pod’ vocals from ‘Cleo’ mixed in. He alternates between
the bumbling fool, naïve religious authority figure and clever fighter.
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