The
Carry On franchise primarily consists of a sequence of 31 low-budget British comedy motion pictures (1958–92), four
Christmas specials, a
television series of thirteen episodes, and three
West End and provincial stage plays. The films' humour was in the British comic tradition of the
music hall and bawdy seaside postcards. Producer
Peter Rogers and director
Gerald Thomas drew on a regular group of actors, the
Carry On team, that included
Sidney James,
Kenneth Williams,
Charles Hawtrey,
Joan Sims,
Kenneth Connor,
Peter Butterworth,
Hattie Jacques,
Terry Scott,
Bernard Bresslaw,
Barbara Windsor,
Jack Douglas and
Jim Dale.