The film was banned in South Africa in the 1970s as the South African authorities considered it anti-Christian. This was because of Sidney James's role as a parish priest as being corrupt having an alias as a robber.
Final "Carry On" film for series regular screenwriter Talbot Rothwell. Rothwell allegedly suffered a nervous exhaustion due to overwork and had to dictate the script to his daughter Jane, who apparently typed the whole thing up.
Sidney James, at 61, was nearly twice the age of the real Dick Turpin, who was 33 when he was hanged in 1739.
The name of King George II's first professional police force was "The Bow Street Runners". The name of this outfit was the same as the true life historical police unit "The Bow Street Runners" which was the first in English history. The were founded in 1749 which was within a year of when this film is set it being 1750.
The time and place that the movie was set was 1750 in England. In real life, Dick Turpin died in 1739, around eleven years before the picture actually takes place.