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The 18th of the Carry On series and the third of the medical themed adventures, plot finds Jim Dale as Doctor Nookie, who is stitched up by his superiors and sent to a tropical Beautific island to tender medical treatment to the natives. What he actually finds when he gets there is a rainy windswept isle that has no need for his services at all. The compound is run by Gladstone Screwer (Sid James), a crafty old sort who deals in whisky and cigarettes and has a wife for every day of the week. Screwer also has something else of interest that perks up the flagging interest of Nookie, a potion that considerably aids weight loss. Nookie senses an opportunity to make a financial killing back in Blighty whilst simultaneously getting one over the superiors who had him sent to his island misery.

This was the last of 10 Carry On films for Jim Dale before he returned for the ill conceived "modern" reinvention that was Carry On Columbus in 1992. I don't know if the makers knew that Dale would be leaving the series and thus made him the lead character in this jovial farce? But it proves to be a smart move. One of the unsung heroes of the series, Dale's energy and comic reactions to plot situations were always a joy to watch, and here, with James in customary wise cracking support, he lifts the film above the ordinary with a show of endearing buffoonery. He also did his own stunts and broke his arm on this production. Director Gerald Thomas keeps things brisk, with the double location axis of the plot stopping things from stagnating visually, Charles Hawtrey goes undercover in drag to provide the last third of the film with some quality laughs and the likes of Barbara Windsor and Valerie Leron raise the pulses considerably.

Thin of plot but big on charm and laughs, one of the better Carry On movies. 7.5/10

Loaded with funny jokes, and featuring Kenneth Williams at his very finest, this is one of the strongest entries in the Carry On series. Sure, it is rather silly in a number of different ways, and the music and sound effects choices are quite poor, plus there is some fast motion used very ineffectively - but otherwise there is little not to like in it. The characters are simply great, the plot is rather interesting, and there are some good, though briefly shown, tropical locations. It is all rather well shot and definitely well written. Overall, it is surprising that this entry does not have a better reputation.

After suffering one too many indiscretions, the disgraced Doctor Nookey is packed off to a remote island hospital by the go-getting Doctor Frederick Carver. Whilst this is intended as punishment for Doctor Nookey, the doctor soon learns that the orderly at this hospital Gladstone Screwer has created a secret potion which aids weight-loss. Doctor Nookey returns back to England and sets up a weight-loss clinic with Screwer supplying the potion. However, when several parties learn of Nookey's success they decide that they too want a piece of the action...

Whilst it has some similarities to Carry On Doctor (in the sense that Jim Dale's character is ousted through misunderstandings and mistreatment) Carry On Again Doctor just wasn't quite as good....

It was the first half of the picture for me where the film ran in to some problems; whilst Carry On Doctor didn't have the strongest narrative in the franchise it did feel more focussed; several people were feigning illness and each character was doing all they can to stay in hospital for as long as they could. There was also a small story arc connecting each of the patients which gave Carry On Doctor a bit more structure and purpose until we get to what is the crux of the story.

Carry On Again Doctor doesn't have the same structure and focus and honestly it's all a bit too whacky and I didn't find the characters or the jokes were quite as appealing second time around. Whilst it's hard not to laugh at some of the situations Nookey finds himself in, the laughs come a bit more cheaply and I also felt that Nookey wasn't quite as likeable as the character that he portrayed in Carry On Doctor.

Thankfully, the film does greatly improve in the second half when Nookey meets Screwer (Sid James was wonderful in this type of role and really lit the screen up whenever he was in front of the camera). It carries on is this vein when Nookey returns back to England and sets up the "Moore-Nookey" clinic which is an amusing visual gag in and of itself. Carver's slimy character doing everything he can to obtain the ingredients of said potion is really something and it's poor Dr Stoppidge who is the stooge that is used on this occasion. It must be said that what happens at the end when the wrong potion is administered was both hilarious and unexpected.

In summary then Carry On Again Doctor is saved by a strong second half and by the cast who, as usual, work wonderfully together in making this farce perhaps more enjoyable than it could have been (thank god nearly all of the regulars were here as I felt it could have been worse had they not have been).

It's funny enough to be worth seeing, but it's a tad more unfocussed and not quite as sharp as Carry On Doctor.

I never really took to Jim Dale in these films, and here he isn't really any better. He is the disgraced "Dr. Nookey" who after an assignation that went a bit wrong, is despatched to a distant hospital where he encounters "Screwer" (Sid James) - the procurer of a miraculous slimming formula. Determined to capitalise on this, he returns to Britain and with Hattie Jacques again donning her matron's uniform is soon making a mint. His good fortune attracts the attention of his erstwhile boss "Dr. Carver" (Kenneth Williams) and soon he has to fend of those not just envious of his success, but also those who want to see him six feet under (theatrically speaking!). I think the clue here is in the title: "Again". This is really just a rehash of old jokes and old scenarios just topped and tailed with a different front page. The jokes have been versioned several times before and to be honest, I felt the cast looked a little battle-weary. Barbara Windsor is growing in confidence and owning the screen more now, Joan Sims still has some of the best one-liners (along with James) and the film certainly doesn't hang about - but there are only just so many times Williams can flare his nostrils before you actually want some smoke to come out.

Carry on Again Doctor fits a lot of different plot features into a short amount of time, there's also a lot of regulars here, in fact too many regulars to give enough screen time to each of them. One odd fact here is that Jim Dale broke his arm on set whilst doing one of his own stunts.

The plot is very odd, involving a magic (?) formula found in a jungle that gives everyone who drinks it incredible weight loss. And then they open a clinic to sell the stuff.

6/10: Jim Dale is lovable but the plot is just too bizarre for words. It's like three films put into one

The Carry On troupe takes on the medical profession in Carry On Again Doctor. Of course Carry On is exactly what at least one doctor is doing.

In fact Jim Dale is the bane of the existence of Doctors Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey who run a clinic in London. The Dickensian named Dale as Dr. Nookey has little trouble getting plenty of that at the clinic and he keeps Williams and Hawtrey constantly agitated.

But an accidental and I do mean accidental indiscretion with a female patient brings Dale an assignment to a south seas island clinic run by the cheerfully hedonistic Sid James. James has invented a weight loss remedy and the shapely shape of some of the south sea native female population is proof it works. Funny how everyone seems interested in only seeing how it works on women.

Lots of typical Carry On bawdy humor in Carry On Again Doctor. I do so love seeing Hawtrey in drag on an industrial espionage mission so to speak.

I love a vast majority of the Carry On films such as Screaming, Cleo and Up the Khyber, and this entry is no exception. Sidney James is underused but still has fun as Gladstone Screwer, admittedly an odd name,and the film does feel a little short but Carry on Again Doctor is still very funny and entertaining. Jim Dale does an above decent job taking centre stage as Doctor Nookey, with excellent comic timing. Kenneth Williams is great as always, and Charles Hawtrey has one of his better outings as Dr Stoppidge, allowing to hiss vehemently and bitterly. The locations of the Bautific Islands are very nice, and the script is filled with one liners that are witty and hilarious. Plus the slapstick finale is genuinely funny, quite possibly one of the funnier finales in the franchise. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Fans of the original CARRY ON DOCTOR might well be forgiven for assuming that this rushed-out sequel offers more of exactly the same, and indeed for the first half of the production that's exactly the case. Once more, the setting of the film is a hospital, with Hattie Jacques as Matron and Kenneth Williams as a pompous doctor. It's all very warm and familiar, with most of the Carry On team present and correct. Once again, Jim Dale is the focus of the slapstick comedy, and there's also a meatier role for Charles Hawtrey who gets probably the most screen time of his Carry On career.

So far, so predictable and yet so amusing - fans will be in their element with another assured, confident piece of film-making, packed with seaside postcard-style humour. And then at the halfway point things change; there are exotic locales and a surprisingly densely-plotted narrative involving a magical weight loss elixir. This all builds to an unpredictable climax with multiple factions attempting to get one over on each other; it's the most complex script-writing of the series since the early 1960s, and proved to be a great and welcome surprise for this fan.

Quite weak and silly.

Despite the title and containing at least four actors and actresses from it, not a sequel to Carry on Doctor. A young doctor, Dr Nookey (played by Jim Dale) suffers a professional disgrace and is sent to a remote island. There he discovers a tonic that causes rapid weight-loss, ideal for obese people. He goes back to England and makes a fortune off the treatment...

One of the more silly Carry On movies, and certainly not as good as Carry on Doctor. Carry on Doctor had its fair share of slapstick, but also had some fairly clever jokes and was generally good fun.

Carry on Again Doctor is much more low-brow. Too many nudge-nudge- wink-wink sort of jokes and silly, random scenes.

Overall: not that funny and not worth watching.

Undervalued final slice of the doctors carry on subjects, hilarious scenes with Dale and all the cast is on top form offering laughs a minute, however dated in places, it still manages to tickle my fancy 50 years after its making.

Being the third outing in the series to be set against a medical backdrop, I was fully expecting this to be a tired rehash of old gags and ideas; however, I found it quite an agreeable latter-day entry – if still essentially second-tier material.

The cast sees Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Jim Dale in more or less similar roles as its predecessor CARRY ON DOCTOR (1967); on the other hand, Sid James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey and Barbara Windsor play different characters. Also, the mid-section of the film reverts to a tropical island setting (to which Dale has been assigned as a punishment, and where wily orderly James is stationed – though, even in such remote surroundings, he manages to keep up-to-date with English soccer results via coded drum-playing from the natives!).

Some of the best gags involve Dale's accident-prone antics at the hospital early on (including his examination of scantily-clad starlet Windsor) and the latter stages set in Dale's private clinic (James has devised a concoction which turns out to be an effective slimming treatment – subsequently exploited by Dale under the patronage of wealthy Sims), which also sees Hawtrey once again in drag (he's a doctor who's jealous of Dale and has infiltrated the clinic on a mission for Dale's ex-superior/now-rival Williams). Series regular Peter Butterworth only has one wacky scene; other bits highlight Wilfrid Brambell (uncredited as an eccentric patient), lovely Valerie Leon (as Dale's sultry secretary) and future Mrs. Michael Caine Shakira Baksh (as a native-girl who successfully undertakes James' miraculous cure).

Carrying On Inappropriately with Carry on Again Doctor (1969).

A series of films carried on, with perpetual double entendre, loved to finger an organ, unleash melons to gorge on, baps, flaps, jugs, bazookas went ding dong.

Though it's not quite so funny today, Fanny plays with her balls in new ways, Dick's choppers been cut, Kitty's curtains are shut, the clams gone from splayed to being spayed.

What an awful sequence of films these were, revisited today, they demonstrate just how out of touch and offensive the so-called humour of yesteryear was, and how a generation of inappropriate behaviour was considered acceptable.

Carrying On Inappropriately with Carry on Again Doctor (1969).

Jim Dale is the focus of this funny medical comedy.

Carry On Doctor had Dale as a clumsy doctor in a disastrous interaction with Barbara Windsor. Kenneth Williams' supercilious higher-level doctor and Hattie Jacques' scheming matron use Dale's highly public accidents to oust him.

This one starts out like that but Williams and Jacques here play warmer, funnier characters. The relatively complex story has Williams eager to open a fancy clinic funded by Joan Sims' wealthy widow. This involves Dale, who created some explosive disasters at the hospital while trying to woo scantily clad patient Windsor, being packed off to a clinic on a monsoonal island. There he meets Sid James' character, the orderly of the non-functioning medical outpost, who has developed a slimming potion.

Dale is the focus throughout, and he is great fun. This puts Sid James into a reduced role, though he, and Jacques, Windsor, Sims, and Williams, get enough good scenes scattered through the story to keep fans happy. Charles Hawtrey here plays a devious doctor and has many good scenes - in some Carry Ons he is more a recurring comedy bit but here he is more crucial to the story.

Patsy Rowlands makes her debut in a small role with a fun twist. Peter Butterworth has a cool cameo.

Carry On Again Doctor returns to the well-tilled field of bedpans, undressed patients, and discussions about symptoms, from wind to bowels being regular dialogue fodder. The third of the medical-themed adventures tackled by the team, this time the focus is on the hospital staff rather than the patients who are mostly just cameos; it features a rare, slightly nasty and cynical streak for the series, essentially a film about people being selfish, lying, manipulating and cheating to get ahead in the profession. I was at first concerned this was where the series stopped being fun but the fast-moving plot and changing locations keep the show moving and, like so many others in the series has great performances, a wonderful script, and some genuinely funny lines. Offset by Jim Dale's accident-prone pratfalls, Carry On Again Doctor is an assured and confident piece of filmmaking even if the focus has waned, it doesn't hang about and provides a lot of visual dynamism to any otherwise crazy film.

With the Carry On gang returning to the medical arena for a third time, it was almost inevitable that the laughs would feel more strained. The script is certainly weaker, with more obvious gags and an over-reliance on puerile slapstick and pratfalls, but the real problem here as far as I am concerned is with the casting, the performers seemingly far less comfortable in their roles this time around.

Jim Dale, who played such a likable physician in Carry On Doctor, struggles as a womanising doctor who takes advantage of others for profit; Charles Hawtrey, so believable as a highly strung patient, is unconvincing as senior house surgeon Doctor Ernest Stoppidge; Babs Windsor is there simply to flash some flesh; and Sid James is wasted as tropical island doctor Gladstone Screwer, a role that feels like an extended cameo.

Meanwhile, Wilfrid Brambell appears in a pointless scene where he gropes a nurse, 70s sexpot Valerie Leon briefly flaunts her cleavage, and Peter Butterworth is demoted to the part of 'Shuffling Patient'. Worst of all, there's no Frankie Howerd or Bernard Bresslaw!

6/10, which is a poor rating from such an avid Carry On fan.

After a coupla classics director Gerald Thomas & especially writer Talbot Rothwell goofed up with 1969's "Carry On Again Doctor" that started as a sorta sequel to 1967's "Carry On Doctor" but got warped along the way. Expelled from the hospital of Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques & Charles Hawtrey for shenanigans with Babs Windsor, Dr Jim Dale goes to Joan Sims' remote island mission where witch-doctor Sid James shows him a miracle potion to make his fortune back in Blighty with. Its as hodge-podged as it sounds, and despite cameos from the likes of Peter Butterworth & Wilfrid Brambell, proper film #17 in the iconic Brit-com series is a disappointment.

I have to give the makers of this film credit from the outset. They could have made Carry On Doctor volume 2, retreading the gags. Although it is a sequel (sort of), this film ventures farther afield, often out of the hospital, where the first Carry On Doctor was set. Most of the crew from the original is here, and they try. Kenneth Williams is, of course, great in his role. More of the same double entendres and one liners are evident. However, the story itself is somewhat flimsy, and a few times I was just shaking my head. I would recommend you see the first one, its great fun. This film has some laughs, just not as many. However, it is a Carry On film, so you're probably going to leave the film smiling at least.

I'd have been 6 months old when this came out! It doesn't need me to explain the plot, plenty of reviews have done that. Besides you don't really need a plot to understand the humour. Watch one Carry On and you've seen them all. Babs gets her buns out, Kenneth says, Maaaatron to Hattie Jacques and flares his nostrils a lot, Charles drags up. There are jokes taking the mickey out of gay men (not exactly homophobic but rather tired, even by 1969 standards). I'm not sure how well the sex change serum joke would go down nowadays. I'm one of the LGBT community and although I deplore homophobia and transphobia- and fat shaming too - I take Carry On films with a generous pinch of salt. I'm not averse to making the odd smutty joke, and in 2024, no one's exactly forcing me to watch it! There are more diverse, inclusive comedies nowadays, of course, but Carry Ons are pretty harmless. A couple of trivial points: Sid James is top of the bill, but in Carry On Again Doctor, it's roughly half an hour before you even glimpse him. The rest of the main cast have far more work to do than he does.

Sid had a reputation for taking back-handers from companies, esp whiskey and fag brands. In COAD, there's a cupboard full of whiskey. Doubtless a placement engineered by James as a bit of advertising. To me, not fond of whiskey and 5 decades on, I don't recognise the brand, but I'm sure plenty of folks back then would've. There are also Rothman and Embassy No5 cigarettes if I'm not mistaken.

Anyway, there are worse Carry Ons and there are better. Any of the Black and Whites beat this one.

Not a patch on Carry On Doctor, this is a very poor follow up to it, Most of the cast from Carry On Doctor were in it, they could have used that to their advantage and incorporated the continuity of that into this, but they missed that trick, but it was similar, however this one had gaping holes in the screenplay and some of the plot missing. Photography was poor and smut had reared its ugly head, with Barbara Windsor being almost entirely naked, the stars on her important bits did not leave anything to the imagination. Not good.

Sid James was top of the bill, I don't know why he only appeared in a 1/4 of it, Jim Dale should have had top billing, other regulars were Ken Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, and Peter Gilmore, Valerie Leon pops up again, nice, and since Harry H. Corbett had a one off role in .......Screaming', Wilfrid Brambell (his acting partner in Steptoe & Son) thought he would have a go in this as well, but his was a non speaking cameo.

Someone you might not of heard of as a regular was Frank Forsyth who did mostly bit roles, he was Mr. Bean in this and it was his last Carry On, he was in the first 3 and did 8 altogether along with 3 spin off films, he retired from acting in 1980 and passed away in 1984 aged 78. Another who is not generally known as a regular is Valerie Van Ost, she only did 4 in bit roles except for a slightly longer role in 'Carry o Doctor', this was her last and she gave up acting soon after, sadly she passed away in September last year aged 75. Valerie Leon also popped up in this and a new regular appeared in Patsy Rowlands, she went on to do 8 more, a side issue and the TV series.

Its nice to see some of the characters and the acting, it was even nice to see most of Barbara Windsor, but the film in general was very poor, at least the next was better.