1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,600 You tell it again, Whiskers. You told me to dress for dinner, 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:05,720 so I put my dinner tongs on, and now I'm the only one. 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:09,160 We're not having dinner, Mr. Wendover, we're having luncheon. 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,360 What time is it, 1255? Well, it's dinner time when I 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:15,280 come from. If you'd taken the trouble to 6 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,800 read the brochure, as I suggested, you would have 7 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:21,600 discovered that we serve luncheon at 12:30 and dinner at 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:25,200 7:30. Something to do with crossing a 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,000 dateline, I suppose. Well, it's a bit of a relief, 10 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,960 really. Oh, this shirt's killing me. 11 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,520 Mr. Wendy over. Try and get it right. 12 00:00:32,759 --> 00:00:35,280 We only wear a black tie at dinner. 13 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:37,840 Have you got it? Only wear a black tie at dinner. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,400 Correct. I've got it and I've got 15 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,360 witnesses. I shall take Murray Pass in my 16 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:44,720 cabin. Thank you. 17 00:00:50,360 --> 00:01:25,480 None. Because I've been rushing around 18 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,840 this evening, this afternoon and this evening. 19 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,560 I normally what I do is, you know, 5 minutes before we start 20 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,560 recording, I jot down a really crappy little intro and I've not 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:38,280 had a chance to do it. So I mean, Are you ready to just 22 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,320 to kick off now and we can just. Just bother. 23 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:41,840 Call. I'm in your hands. 24 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,840 I'm in your hands. Brilliant, brilliant. 25 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:46,200 So I'll just say hello and welcome to Goon Pod. 26 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,160 Ding Dong, how about that? Perfect. 27 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:52,360 Perfect. There we go. 28 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:59,040 This week I am. I'm delighted to welcome now so 29 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,880 many strings to your bow here, John. 30 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:05,920 Correct me if I'm wrong. Actor, writer, director and Co 31 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,840 founder of Hambledon Productions, John Feuer. 32 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,960 John Feuer, Thank you. Very much indeed, yes. 33 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,240 Thanks for having me here. Did I miss any? 34 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,440 No, it's Jack of all trades, master of nonness. 35 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:19,760 Pretty much is, yes. I Can't Sing. 36 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,360 I can't dance. So I when I entered this 37 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,840 industry, it was very much a case of seeing what else I liked 38 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,720 doing. And writing is my main thing. 39 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,760 I like to do writing, but that pays the least, I've found out. 40 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,280 So directing very soon, followed that up and. 41 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:37,920 Yeah. And I've fallen into this craze 42 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,720 of, you know, reviving classic comedy. 43 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,000 And I absolutely love doing that. 44 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,680 Yeah. You're the relatively younger 45 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,680 man than than I am, John. But but you're but like myself, 46 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,240 you, you, you cleave very much to the older comedy and 47 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:53,600 comedians, I guess. Is that? 48 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:55,440 Yeah. Absolutely. 49 00:02:55,440 --> 00:03:01,720 I'd say anything from 1917 to about 1998, it's kind of a kind 50 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,840 of where I sit. And in the middle of that it's 51 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:06,280 it's, it's the Fifties, 60s and 70s. 52 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:09,920 And yeah, I'm, I'm 36, turning 37. 53 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,200 And I, I always say I was brought up very, very well. 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,760 I was introduced to that kind of, you know, the golden age of 55 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:23,440 comedy, as we call it now by my, my, my dad in particular, who 56 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:27,640 was a, a school teacher, head teacher, very, very busy job. 57 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,880 But he would always free up Sunday evenings to spend some 58 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:36,160 time together and on BBC Two or Channel 4, they'd be showing 59 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:39,440 Carry ONS on Channel 4 and on BBC Two they'd be serving 60 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,880 Porridge and Fawlty Towers, the good life and that kind of 61 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,920 stuff. And my love for this kind of 62 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,240 classic comedy kind of all stemmed out from that. 63 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,440 And I gotta be honest, Carry On Films was my was my biggest 64 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,040 interest, probably still is. And of course, you exhaust those 65 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:59,360 31 films and you go and, you know, see James, Kath Williams, 66 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:00,880 Hattie Jakes, what else did they do? 67 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,040 And you go into Hancock's Half Hour and their own sitcom stuff. 68 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,560 And then that then transpired into the The Goon Show. 69 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,320 My grandfather on my mum's dad who's still with us. 70 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:12,120 He's 95 next month, exciting time. 71 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,079 And he's a huge Goon fan, loved Spike Milligan. 72 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,040 So I think quite anarchic or or zany, I'm saying in inverted 73 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,720 comments kind of came from my granddad. 74 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,920 So Marx Brothers are huge, huge influence on my on my work. 75 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:32,920 And the Goon Show, I think is a, is a, is very close follow on 76 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,280 from them. And and yes, so that kind of 77 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:39,200 side of my work definitely stems from my granddad and, and Spike 78 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:41,320 Milligan in particular. And I'm looking to have done 79 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,320 Spike works works, you know, with my company, with the bed 80 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,440 sitting room and the Milligan papers. 81 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:51,960 And it's, it's wonderful to be a very, very, very small wheel in, 82 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:55,000 in that whole, you know, reviving his work and keeping 83 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,320 his name out there. You've you've played Spike. 84 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,960 You've you've, yes. That was a weird. 85 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:04,880 That was a strange one, how that came about. 86 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:08,200 Jeremy Stockwell, who I'm sure you're familiar with, the 87 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:12,360 brilliant Spike in it transcends the impression it really, really 88 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,200 is. He was in line to play Spike in 89 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,280 the Milligan Papers tour we did in 2018 to, to to mark the 90 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:24,040 centenary of Spike, but he couldn't do it. 91 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,200 So I ended up stepping up to playing Spike Milligan in that 92 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,360 sense. But the betting room was the big 93 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,000 one. The betting room was the film I 94 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,120 watched in my teens. And so let's let's think now. 95 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:39,120 This has been about, yeah, the very early 2000s. 96 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,640 And it wasn't it on DVD. There was number VHS release. 97 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:44,760 You couldn't find it on YouTube or anything like that. 98 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,840 And it did crop up on on eBay. I think, you know, as one of 99 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:52,160 those we're in the public domain kind of film. 100 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:54,880 Oh yeah. But I remember buying it and I 101 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,280 remember being completely in awe of it. 102 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:00,360 It really was my favorite film for for a couple of years. 103 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,280 And and I just wanted to and it would base the play. 104 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:06,800 And of course, play is my main love, you know, theaters, my 105 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,920 main love. So when when I read the play 106 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,520 script, which of course very different from the film in many 107 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,360 ways, and I wanted to restage that. 108 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:18,520 And so we very luckily were given permission to do that in a 109 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:21,000 couple years ago now. And Jeremy Stockwell, we did fly 110 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,520 him over to to play Spike. And that was such a wonderful 111 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,040 evening. Jane Milligan was there. 112 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,840 It was wonderful to have to to have said that we did that. 113 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,760 It's it's very, very special to me. 114 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:32,200 And and was John and Travis involved at all? 115 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,600 John was John was very much, very much keen for revival. 116 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:37,880 He wanted to turn into a musical. 117 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,840 I, and I'm looking back on John's, you know, CV and musical 118 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,560 is kind of the only thing he hasn't done. 119 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,200 So I think, I think there's a part of that and he had these 120 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,360 wonderful ideas. But but sadly, the whole, you 121 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,720 know, well, not necessarily sadly, but the whole ethos 122 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,760 behind it was to do it as it was in 1962 or 63, you know, that 123 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,240 was kind of a big, big part of it. 124 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:01,560 But he was very supportive of us. 125 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,080 And I think he's still tinkering away on it, hoping to get 126 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,040 revival, you know, full production to be done soon, 127 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,360 hopefully. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 128 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:14,960 Today, this week, we are talking about the 1970 film Doctor in 129 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:21,040 Trouble, starring Leslie Phillips, Harry Seekum, Robert 130 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,280 Morley, Robert Morley. Robert Morley. 131 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,280 I've got a bit of AI need. I need somebody to work through 132 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,080 my Robert Morley antipathy with, and it may as well be you. 133 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:34,000 Oh, yes, yes, I've got a real thing of not a real thing. 134 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:36,960 It's, it's an act, I suppose it's an act, but it's pomposity 135 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,080 and it's just the way he, he always looks permanently 136 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:49,240 startled, you know, so he. Is he is the same in in in every 137 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:50,720 film? I think that's that's pretty 138 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:51,560 tricky. Well, that's true. 139 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,160 I think it's in Roger Lewis's Peter Sellers book where he he 140 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,000 does something like comparing Robert Morley to like some, 141 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,280 some, you know, gargantuan elephant who just comes onto the 142 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,560 screen every now and then and completely tries to own the 143 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:06,760 whole scene. And I will quickly see where he 144 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,360 comes from in that. I've got to, I've got to pull in 145 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,680 Robin Molly. But it is an act. 146 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,960 And when you think, you know, if this was made two years earlier, 147 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,080 that part would have been played by James Robertson Justice. 148 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,880 And I think the film would have been a yeah, better been a 149 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,600 better outcome for that. But yeah. 150 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,840 Oh, and we almost forgot, Simon Dee, of course, is in this film. 151 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,120 Oh, yes. Now this is tricky for me 152 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:35,760 because, you know, I was wasn't around in 1970 or the 70s at 153 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:39,240 all. And so I, I didn't realize at 154 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,679 all who Simon Dee was. And I had to kind of figure out 155 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,240 and then to figure out this was probably his only, certainly his 156 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,440 only major film. And I don't know, a kind of a 157 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,360 flash in the pan kind of career. Would you say that? 158 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:53,040 I don't know. Well, I've done a bit of 159 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,080 research, quite a bit of research about Simon Dee. 160 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,360 So I want to at some point in our conversation, I want to talk 161 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,560 about his kind of downfall, right? 162 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,920 His rise and fall, as they say. Very interesting guy. 163 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:10,560 His own worst enemy, I suppose. And I only know, I only knew him 164 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,240 when I was growing up because Victoria would mentions him in 165 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:18,720 one of his sketches. That's the only I think, I 166 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,760 think, I think that's the only reference to Simon DI heard 167 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:24,880 growing up. But we'll we'll come to him. 168 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:25,600 We'll come to him. Tell me. 169 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,440 Don't tell me. The luxury Coronation Street. 170 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:34,200 No, no. The TV advert for Frosty. 171 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,240 I've got it. Doctor Philip Dare. 172 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:38,160 Yes. Yes. 173 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:39,840 Thought I recognized the old mush. 174 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:41,360 One of your greatest fans here, Phil. 175 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:43,560 Good. I'm the Well and Wendover. 176 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,680 I just won the pools. Don't spread it about. 177 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:48,040 Otherwise they won't be able to pull the birds off me fast 178 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:57,320 enough. Yes, I recognized you 179 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,400 immediately, Sir. The captain asked me to take you 180 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,600 down to your cabin and look after you, and he'll be in touch 181 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,200 with you just as soon as we're safety at sea. 182 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,480 Well, thank you very much. I hope to be asleep by the time 183 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:06,920 we're at sea. I'm afraid I'm not the. 184 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:08,480 Best of sailors for the first couple of days. 185 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:10,360 There's nothing to worry about on the Golden Horn, Sir. 186 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,320 We're as stable as a jihadisco. I'm very glad to hear that. 187 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:14,240 Here. Just a minute. 188 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,160 You'd like to come this way as I would. 189 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:18,760 What about me? I mean, if you're a bloke, What 190 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:20,360 tips of tickets I like? I don't want to shake down. 191 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,600 Now I do like to be thorough in my research as well. 192 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,760 If you Google Doctor in Trouble, you have to wade through pages 193 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:32,200 and pages and pages about GPG. PS: being struck off for the 194 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,360 various things but but I did manage to find quite a a a bit 195 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,360 to talk about with regards to this film and those who appear 196 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,880 in it. As I said about like Simon D So 197 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:45,200 but what, why, why this film? Is this one of your favourites? 198 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,400 I'm guessing it must be. Yeah, I I think it is. 199 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:51,320 It's certainly one of the Doctor films I go to more than the 200 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,960 others. And I guess if you were to look 201 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,320 at the, the the Doctor series very quickly there seven films, 202 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,720 19541970. This is the last one. 203 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,320 And they, they, they sort of fall into two categories. 204 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,680 There's the the very, you know, quintessential 1950s, kind of, 205 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,520 you know what I call the Carmichael factor. 206 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:16,400 Yeah, he got Michael not in these films, but it's it's kind 207 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,200 of got that kind of feel to it. Very, very. 208 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:19,840 He got Michael Dirk Bogart. Kind of. 209 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,840 Yeah, Dirk Bogart in them actually. 210 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:25,680 Bogart's in in a lot of them is, yeah, Doctor Simon Sparrow. 211 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,840 And that the first film from 54 is, is really excellent. 212 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,800 I'm, I'm, you know, honestly, it's it's very much timeless. 213 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:37,480 And he's supported by, you know, Kenneth Moore, Donald Sinden and 214 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:40,120 of course, Jane Robson Justice. And the first one is excellent. 215 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,800 And then they kind of did kind of not capitalize on that with 216 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,000 the sequels. You know, Doctorate C came along 217 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,880 in 55, Doctorate Large in 57, and they all kind of got 218 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:56,600 progressively weaker and Doug Bogart basically just wasn't 219 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,360 invested in it anymore. He then jumped ship and Michael 220 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:06,600 Craig came along in 1960 Co starring with Leslie Phillips in 221 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:11,000 Doctor in Love, which tried to kind of, you know, regenerate 222 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,640 the series, I suppose. And that didn't work. 223 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,760 And they they got back Doug Bogart for one final outing for 224 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:22,280 the fifth film, Doctor in Distress in 1963. 225 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,960 And and then it was decided to basically chase the Carry on 226 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:31,360 wagon as far as I could tell, with the sixth film, 1966 being 227 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,760 Doctor in Clover, where we have Leslie Phillips really taking on 228 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,160 the mantle by, you know, Donald Sindon and Kenneth Moore. 229 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:40,920 And and then that brought us to doctor in trouble. 230 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,840 And I think of the later ones, this is this is, this is my 231 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:47,160 favorite, you know, bizarrely, as it was the last one they ever 232 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:51,560 made, But I, I, I do prefer this to a lot of the earlier ones. 233 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,920 I, I think the first one is the best. 234 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,600 And unsurprisingly maybe, but I this one, it's not a classic at 235 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,960 all, but it, it is still a very good film. 236 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:03,920 And I watched again last night and I and it, it has got that 237 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,720 kind of familiarity feel with it. 238 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,840 And, you know, to go with those names already listed, Irene 239 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,080 handles in their John. The measure, of course, is 240 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,640 always in their Graham's. You know, they're, they're good 241 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,120 troopers, aren't they? And we're always grateful to see 242 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:17,560 them. Yeah. 243 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,600 Yeah, but what's really confusing is that why isn't this 244 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:27,040 called Doctor at Sea? Well, they made Doctor at Sea. 245 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,040 I think that's the problem. And sadly, there's a, there's a 246 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,200 couple of reviews online, official reviews from critics 247 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,040 saying, you know, this feels like the, you know, the off cuts 248 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,320 of Doctorate C, which I really do not agree with. 249 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,320 I think they are two very different films. 250 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:45,240 And this does feel very much like a, a carry on and Oh yeah. 251 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,480 And whether you and and it'll, you know, it'll stand up on, on 252 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,400 that, whether you like carry on or not. 253 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:53,960 And then but when I was watching it last night, it, it, it felt 254 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,080 like one of the later late carry ONS. 255 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:01,160 There's a lot of nudity going on in Doctor in Trouble and it it 256 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,800 felt to be spicy even for like the late 60s, early 70s. 257 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,280 Yeah, at one point Leslie Phillips says the word bastard 258 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,440 about 6 times and I know. Succession. 259 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,560 Genuinely shocking, yeah. And he's saying it to Simon Dee, 260 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:17,480 so he's probably had grounds for saying it if Simon Dee's 261 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:18,760 reputation was anything to go by. 262 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,000 But it's based on a book called Doctor on Toast. 263 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,120 Yeah, not Doctor on Toast. Yeah, I have not got to the 264 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,040 bottom of that one. Yeah, I've got most of the 265 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,600 Doctor novels, and I haven't got that one, but I'd be interested 266 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,040 to see exactly how much of this. I mean, it was screenplay by 267 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:39,200 Jack Davis, who had handled a few of these in the past, mostly 268 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,880 known in my books anyway, for writing on the normal Wisdom 269 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:44,760 films. And it's certainly got that 270 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:49,440 strong slapstick element to it, which again, if that's your if 271 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:50,760 that's your bag, you will love this. 272 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:53,600 You know, it might leave you cold, but it's, yeah, it's a 273 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,520 Jack Davis script. And exactly how much from doctor 274 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,440 on toast he took. You know, that's, that's 275 00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,840 something I need to look into, to be honest. 276 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,520 You mentioned James Robertson Justice. 277 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:05,840 Now he does have a very small walk on part in this film right 278 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,120 at the beginning. And you can, you can, if you 279 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:11,920 know about it, you can see it. You can see he's got one hand 280 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:17,160 shoved into a trouser pocket and there's a kind of a, he's a 281 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,480 suppressed tremble of his arm. So he was, he was. 282 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,120 Was he effectively dying at that at this time or certainly very 283 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,520 ill? Yeah, he's, he's had a stroke a 284 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:30,360 couple of years before. He had an operation after stroke 285 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,520 which hadn't gone according to plan, I think. 286 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,880 And then he was, he was basically off another operation 287 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,560 with like a 50% chance of being successful or not. 288 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,080 And, and people were like, do you really want to go through 289 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,360 with this? But he, he, he did and, and, and 290 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,000 this is him basically coming out of it. 291 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,120 And I think this is his last, certainly his last mate. 292 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,120 I think this is the final film. Actually, I think he died about 293 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,640 five years afterwards. And you're right. 294 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:59,120 And I, I knew he wasn't well when I first saw it. 295 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,920 I, I'd read up on that much time when you know, you know, you, 296 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:05,920 you think so 'cause you know, he was, he was a good third in all 297 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:08,120 the other previous films and been doing had this kind of walk 298 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,160 on cameo really. Let's be honest, it was very sad 299 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,520 indeed. But no, when I did reread the 300 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:17,200 biography on him and I watched those early scenes with him in, 301 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,520 you could tell, you know, yeah, you're right. 302 00:16:18,520 --> 00:16:20,120 He's got his left hand in his jacket pocket. 303 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:22,720 And also when he has some close-ups, you can tell he's 304 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,160 reading the cue the auto view car behind Simon Dee's head a 305 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:28,560 couple of times. It's it's good to have him. 306 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:29,880 You know, I wouldn't want to lose him. 307 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,400 But but it it, it is. It is sad and slightly awkward 308 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:34,680 that he's not in this one so much. 309 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:37,640 Absolutely. Oh, we've got to mention, of 310 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,600 course there's a, there's a Python, yes. 311 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,520 Film. There's an ASP and there's a 312 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,240 Python. The Python in the shape of 313 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,920 Graham Chapman, who plays a fashion photographer called 314 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:52,160 Roddy Rodney. Yes. 315 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:53,880 Or was it Rodney, I thought. It was. 316 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,520 I think it's Rodney, then Roddy, yeah. 317 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,280 Right and Graham Chapman very much against type, playing a gay 318 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:04,720 man. There's a couple of gay 319 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,280 stereotypes in his film. Roddy is one of them, and 320 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:11,280 there's a said particularly egregious stereotype at the 321 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,079 beginning when Simon Dee's character is being mobbed by 322 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:18,520 adoring females. That's right, yes, Which I 323 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,839 hadn't stopped until last night. And when that little bit came 324 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,800 up, I was like, oh, that's the thing that got under my radar 325 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,359 earlier. Well, that kind of 326 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:30,000 representation was was default homosexual around this period. 327 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:30,800 Wasn't it? Yeah. 328 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:31,560 Really. Yeah. 329 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,960 Now, did Graham Graham Chapman had some involvement with the 330 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:37,280 scripts on this? Did he? 331 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:42,640 Or not on the film script to my knowledge, but he and John 332 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,560 Cleese did both Co write the opening episode of the Doctor in 333 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:50,080 the House TV series which would start in 1969. 334 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,240 That's it. That's what I was confused with 335 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,400 kind of I think. I think the producers, Betty 336 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,400 Box, who produced all the seven Doctor films, I think she was 337 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,880 given first refusal to actually do ATV adaptation. 338 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,680 And then when, when James was and Justice was clearly not 339 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:10,480 going to be around for it to happen, you know, to work on it. 340 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:14,320 I mean, she she basically closed the book and I said not anymore. 341 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:19,000 So I think ITV or ATV, wherever it was the time, you know, 342 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,800 bought the rights from from from her and they they went with that 343 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:24,880 and and yeah. And it was a Chapman Cleese 344 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:26,640 first script and then the Goodies. 345 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,920 I think. I know Bill Adi and Graham 346 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,040 Garden wrote a lot of them. Yeah, well, Graham was a doctor, 347 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:33,080 wasn't he? Yeah. 348 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,120 And of course, an uncredited appearance in this by Jeffrey 349 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:40,360 Davis. Yes, he's there. 350 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,520 He pops up, yes. Like a like a like a ceremial, 351 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,040 you know, handing over the hat really, isn't it because he kind 352 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:49,320 of played that role that Leslie Phillips plays so well? 353 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,680 You know, the the Doctor Burke, I think he's called this one 354 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,120 Doctor Grimmstein keeps calling the previous one for the same 355 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:56,160 Leslie Phillips character. And I think he's got that kind 356 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:59,440 of lovable rogue kind of role. TV series. 357 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,760 Yeah, Jeffrey walks in on on Leslie Phillips character and I 358 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,400 I was saying to friends, I'm going to write someday I'm going 359 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:11,960 to write a monograph, a short monograph on the films from the 360 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,000 films and television programs from the 70s, which have scenes 361 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,720 where there are photographs of topless women pinned to the 362 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:23,760 walls because there's. And also, but we also create a 363 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:27,840 new list, a very short list as well, of films which have, you 364 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,080 know, various starlets going on photo shoots. 365 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,960 Yes. Because there's this, there's. 366 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:36,440 I don't even seen it. Vampira, 1974. 367 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,040 David Niven. Heard of it? 368 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,960 Yeah, it's a similar thing. They all, they all, all these 369 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,880 Dolly girls, you know, they all, they all get on a plane and they 370 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,560 go to Transylvania for photo shoot. 371 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:48,760 And then there's Spanish Fly 1917. 372 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,040 Heard of it? It's meant to be dreadful, 373 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:52,880 isn't? It it's Leslie Phillips and and 374 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,320 Terry Thomas and again, let's ship them all out to to to 375 00:19:57,360 --> 00:20:00,040 somewhere hot and nice and to take some photographs like. 376 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:02,120 That. But yes, definitely a trend. 377 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:05,520 Definitely a trend. Yeah, barely mentioned Harry. 378 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:10,080 Now Harry, when we get to Harry, Harry is wonderful in this. 379 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,720 Harry is to me. And obviously I'm biased I 380 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:14,240 suppose, but. He is. 381 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,400 He's so, so good in all the films he did that he's, he's 382 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,440 really remarkable, I think. And yeah, so totally hold his 383 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,080 weight here against these, these people who have made, you know, 384 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,400 dozens more films than Harry had made by this point in his 385 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,320 career. And it's excellent, I think. 386 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,760 Yeah. Well, he's dialed it up to 11, 387 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:34,080 and he's playing a character called Clue Allen Wendover. 388 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:39,360 That's right, yeah. Cheerfully Crumpet Mad Pools 389 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:45,520 winner with no social graces, and I suppose you would kindly 390 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:46,800 describe him as common as muck. Oh. 391 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,560 Absolutely. Yes, it's his first time on a 392 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,560 cruise and he doesn't know the etiquette and he's got an eye 393 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,120 for the ladies and all sorts of shenanigans occur. 394 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:00,520 Is he? And I think he's is he is he 395 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:06,040 kind of is the whole purpose of the cruise for him to pick up 396 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:08,360 find, you know, find a wife potentially, Is that what is 397 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,880 that? I I think that's a polite way of 398 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:10,960 putting it. Yeah, I think so. 399 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:13,920 It's interesting because that the character name, not 400 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,480 Llewellyn, but there's a Wendover in the previous film, 401 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,280 Doctrine Clover, played by Arthur Haynes. 402 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:23,520 Oh yeah, I think passed away between that film and this film. 403 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,000 So whether he was lined up to be in this one as one, I'm not too 404 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,160 sure. But it's great to see Harry 405 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,480 Seacombe. I think he made quite a few 406 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,120 films around this. Time yeah, his sunstruck was 407 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,240 couple of years later there was song of Norway I think the same 408 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,200 year as this right Oliver of course the year before I. 409 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:47,240 Think it was the Yeah, it was. 68 Yeah, but he's Oh, and 410 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,160 there's the Magnificent 7 deadly sins. 411 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:50,160 Great. Yeah. 412 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,040 Hey, which I'm all, I'm all for that. 413 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,280 I'm all for that. Which also has Lizzie Phillips 414 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:57,760 in it. That's a guilty pleasure, yes. 415 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,280 And directed by Graham Stark, Yes, Yeah. 416 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,440 And I heard Leslie Phillips say about Graham Stark that very 417 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,400 nice man. Very nice man to act with, but 418 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,200 not a very nice man to be directed by, apparently. 419 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,360 Oh, really? Bit of a bit of a tartar on set. 420 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:16,800 Oh, OK, OK. So there we go. 421 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:18,920 I mean, I've come to there must be something because yeah, he 422 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,040 didn't do many, did he? So. 423 00:22:20,520 --> 00:22:22,720 Yeah, I think he he did that. I think he did Simon. 424 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,120 Simon with Simon Sharp film. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 425 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:27,440 With Sellers in it briefly. Yeah. 426 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,720 You know, talk about the Carry ONS and how this is more or less 427 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,400 a carry on in all but name, I suppose in many ways. 428 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:36,720 Well, it's not actually, is it? Because there were, there were, 429 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,600 there's no, there's none of the principal cast apart from Joan 430 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,880 Sims. And yeah, I mean, Leslie 431 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,880 Phillips was sort of an early carry on regular wasn't even. 432 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,560 Only regular for the early days, yeah. 433 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:51,520 Yeah, but it opens with with very carry on style credits and 434 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,120 music. It's Eric Rogers behind them, 435 00:22:53,320 --> 00:23:24,720 the music. Because yes, I, I, I do think 436 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,040 that the, the musical scores of this type of film, you know, 437 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,280 often goes unnoticed. And I and I do, you know, they 438 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,000 do punctuate so many of the gags. 439 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,160 And it's not just all, you know, long trombones and Swanee 440 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:36,400 whistles. You know, there's, there's some 441 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,640 really wonderful stuff going in there. 442 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,480 And I did notice that Harry Secombe actually has his own 443 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:48,400 like theme tune whenever he comes on, that kind of thing. 444 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,720 And it's it's lifted from Carry On Doctor. 445 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:54,400 It's Bernie Breslow's theme tune, if you like, from Carry On 446 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,440 Doctor, which was made in 1967. So it would be quite fresh. 447 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,880 Rodgers his mind that and I and I that, you know, recurring 448 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,840 theme. And there's a wonderful bit the 449 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:09,040 party which has got some music in from a similar party scene 450 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:12,320 from Karen again Doctor, which was made the year before. 451 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:19,080 And there's a there's the Janet Mahoney's striptease scene from 452 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:24,600 later on in the film, which includes a musical theme from 453 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:28,880 Eric Rogers, which he he he returned to constantly thought 454 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,880 the Carry ONS. Now there's some kind of saucy 455 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,840 dance. It's the same piece of music. 456 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,640 So I'm thinking of that. There's a striptease scene in 457 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:43,080 Carry On Behind in 1975 and a similar one in Carry On Emmanuel 458 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,320 for 1978. And it's the same piece of 459 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,720 music. So yeah. 460 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,680 So that piece of music, wherever it comes on, like, oh, there we 461 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,320 go. Just we're talking about that 462 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,040 striptease. I mean, that was that come as 463 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,760 that came as no surprise that it was that. 464 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,480 What's the character's name? Dawn. 465 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,760 Dawn Daley. Dawn Daley was referred to as a 466 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:05,000 dancer throughout this film. And then and then it's announced 467 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:09,960 that this this party, that she's going to dance for the delight 468 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,200 of the passengers. And we all, we all knew it was 469 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,400 going to be a striptease, didn't we? 470 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:16,520 Come on. I love the next scene as well 471 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,920 because you've got you've got the capability, Robert Morley. 472 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:23,760 You've got Robert Morley looking startled and saying to John 473 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:25,920 Lemaz. It's great, isn't it? 474 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:27,000 Yeah. You don't think she's going to 475 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,040 take everything off, do you? And and John in his best 476 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,720 Sergeant Wilson says something like, I rather hope she does. 477 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:33,800 Absolutely. Spot on. 478 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,760 Yeah, which you do not expect. It's wonderful. 479 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:38,880 No, he's delighted by it all. You. 480 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,160 Don't think she's going to take everything off, do you? 481 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:47,880 I hope she does. The film opens with an operation 482 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:53,760 happening and and the surgeon collapses and dies, but before 483 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,880 he does he. He not the last guys, not the 484 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:01,640 last. Yeah, he nominates the dishy Dr. 485 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,680 Dare as the only surgeon capable of completing this operation. 486 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:08,440 And we see, we then realize that it's actually a a television 487 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,080 show and and Doctor Dare is the actor Basil Beecham. 488 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,920 It is Basil Beecham. Isn't it played by Simon Dee? 489 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,960 And the name Doctor Dare? I'm assuming it's based on 490 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,080 Doctor Kildare. Yeah, I presume. 491 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,760 And then we see Leslie Phillips and about a dozen nurses 492 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,680 watching this on television at the hospital. 493 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:34,040 Leslie Phillips's character Tony says that he was at school with 494 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,680 Doctor Dare. Now, Phillips was 46 at this at 495 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:42,760 this time, and Dean was 35. But but Leslie Phillips really 496 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,320 trading on that sort of youthful good looks still or trying to. 497 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,440 He was and he he kept he kept that going for, you know, the 498 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,360 best part of the 10 years until, you know, this, this kind of 499 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:55,440 comedy, I guess this was not as fashionable. 500 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,600 There wasn't much money. You know, this was the last one 501 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,680 they could finance, wasn't it? And, you know, and then he he 502 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,440 wanted to ditch that, you know, persona and then, you know, 503 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,280 chase a second career, which he did very, very well, didn't he? 504 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,440 Of course. But now he's still is, you know, 505 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,320 rappish best here, I think. He's a bit put out by the the 506 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:21,040 clear adoration of the nurses for Simon D's character and he's 507 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,200 And then he's called out to a swanky house where the resident 508 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,000 is supposedly seriously ill and it turns out to be Basil 509 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,920 Beaches. Hen now, sorry to cut in there. 510 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,600 I I spotted it straight away. I spotted that that axe signed 511 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:39,360 it like serious straight away and it's I I ran ran to my carry 512 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:43,520 on books and it's a location used in the very closing scene 513 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,600 of Karen at the Jungle and it's a Le Baron's Crescent. 514 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,160 Wow, OK. Probably in Windsor, knowing 515 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,040 knowing carry on lot, probably Windsor and yes, it was used at 516 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,280 the jungle, which was filmed in 1969. 517 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,160 So I guess, you know, with the with the family background of, 518 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:04,280 you know, Betty Box B Peter Rogers, you know, I guess so I'm 519 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,160 looking for a house, you know, that can do this kind of 520 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,040 exterior location. Oh, you want this place. 521 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,600 Here's the tip of that kind of thing going on throughout 522 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:12,960 throughout the two franchises really. 523 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,840 But yes, there it is, 11 Clarence present. 524 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:21,120 Like you said before, the the the sort of the smutty tone is 525 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:26,040 crept in here and you've got these Dolly birds essentially 526 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:28,560 sort of draped over the banisters. 527 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:32,240 Around yeah, as as as. Tony Burke is climbing the 528 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:37,160 stairs and then he and then he examines Basil when it he thinks 529 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,440 it's his appendix, doesn't he? I think. 530 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,520 And then but there's he says something about, you know, take 531 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,320 your shirt off or unbutton your shirt. 532 00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,720 And the girls start to unbutton, of course. 533 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:46,920 And then and Tony and he stopped them. 534 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:49,200 He would. But even though he says, well, 535 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,160 you might want to do that later, he says, like the old dog. 536 00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:59,720 I really laughed when we see the next scene is Basil's taken to 537 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:06,280 hospital and Doctor Burke tries to tell the the nurses that he's 538 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:07,120 not all that. Oh, it's. 539 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,280 Doctor Phillip dead, but he's not bad. 540 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:14,880 He's got false teeth. Spots. 541 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:20,960 Yeah, wears a wig, not knees. Then what's going on here? 542 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,080 I just brought in a new patient, Sir. 543 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,240 An actor. Hypochondriac, of course. 544 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,680 Of course, what's the matter with him? 545 00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,760 He says he's got appendicitis, so that personally I think he's 546 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,880 here for publicity purposes. There he is. 547 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,440 Is he? Well, I'm. 548 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,840 Not standing for that. You're quite right, Sir. 549 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,480 It could be a a carrying on from Doctoring Clover where the main, 550 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,840 well, one of the plot points in that film is Leslie Phillips's 551 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:48,680 character trying to get with it and trying to, you know, adapt 552 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,800 to to, you know, this, this swinging 60s permissiveness. 553 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,240 And it's it's a little bit like the end of carry on camping. 554 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,920 It's like, you know, Sir James and Bernie Brez are all are all 555 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,400 for the permissiveness until it turns up in the in the you know, 556 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,000 the field next door is some rowdy, you know, the flower buds 557 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,640 pop band, whatever. And, and they steal all the all 558 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,680 the young girls. So it's it's a it's a little bit 559 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,800 like that. It's kind of trying to tap into 560 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:15,120 the modern trends, but also kind of poking fun at it. 561 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,240 And I think there's a little bit of that in this film as well in 562 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:22,440 Doctrine where, you know, Leslie Phillips's character trying to 563 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,120 trying to adapt to, you know, to the latest hot craze, which in 564 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:27,560 this case is Simon Dee's character. 565 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,760 And and there's a lot of comedy to be taken out of that, I 566 00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:31,240 think. Yeah. 567 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,280 Well, he's he's, He's also, by the way, carry on. 568 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,000 Camping was the hippies, wasn't it? 569 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:37,240 As well. Yes, yeah, yeah. 570 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,240 Don't essentially don't don't they don't they try and kill the 571 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,320 hippies. Yeah, they, they completely 572 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:45,200 spoil their fun. They, they, they blow up all 573 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,960 their, you know, electric guitars and they, they, they 574 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,480 pull them all through a hedge on a track to, you know, you know, 575 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,880 it's, it's, you know, they're trying to just, you know, go 576 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,840 away from all of that. So it's, yeah. 577 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,640 It's an interesting part in the series where basically Carry On 578 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:02,000 went from being, you know, trendsetters to, you know, kind 579 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,880 of falling behind the times a little bit, I think. 580 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,040 Yeah. And you said about Leslie 581 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,920 Phillips, well, his character in any case, trying to be a bit 582 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:13,520 groovy. And with it, he's obviously 583 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:18,000 he's, he's also got a young girlfriend, which is the actress 584 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,920 Angela Scholar, Scholar, Scholar, who I wasn't familiar 585 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,360 with in terms of I couldn't recognize it from anything until 586 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:30,240 I looked her up and she was in a couple of Bond films. 587 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:35,200 She was also she was in Casino Royale, you know the the sellers 588 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,160 casino well, but I recognized her because she had a regular 589 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,440 role in. You rang my Lord, as one of the 590 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,760 of. Course One. 591 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,720 Of the lady somebody rather well dispatched. 592 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:52,920 Well, but but yeah, so she so she plays doctor. 593 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,320 Oh God, this is going to be confusing. 594 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,400 Leslie Phillips character Doctor Tony Burke. 595 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,160 She plays his young, younger girlfriend. 596 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,480 That's right. And she what was that? 597 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,560 Ophelia O'Brien is their name, yeah. 598 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,840 Ophelia O'Brien. That's right. 599 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,520 I mean, if it had been the Carry On films, it would have been 600 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,200 something like Ophelia Knockers or. 601 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,280 Something, yeah. But she, the actress and 602 00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,600 Phillips actually got together several years after this and. 603 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,680 They did, yeah. I, I thought, I thought they 604 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,360 they got together on this film, but no, you're right, it was a 605 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:27,880 bit late. So they just played together 606 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,240 called the man most likely to in the West End And. 607 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,760 And yes, she's she's back in this film and quite high billing 608 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,000 actually. I I thought, I thought it was a 609 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:39,480 a very secondary role, but no, she's there a lot more than I 610 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:40,720 thought she was remembered to be. 611 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,600 And yeah, I mean, she's she's great. 612 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,680 Yeah, that's very. She, I won't, I won't go into 613 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:52,800 detail, but she, she, well, she took her own life in 2011 in a 614 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,080 very, in a very dramatic fashion, which people could look 615 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,440 up if they wish, but obviously had a lot of things going on 616 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:05,040 and, but they had been together for many, many years. 617 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,840 When she was she was actually in the early stage of pregnancy 618 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:13,440 when she made doctor in trouble. So it was a under in trouble. 619 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,880 I think really, yes, from from her first, first marriage, I 620 00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,400 think, and and yeah. And then I, I think, I think 621 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,880 Leslie very much became, you know, you know, the step dad 622 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,120 really when they did get together. 623 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,920 So yeah. Yeah, the the plot here is that 624 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:35,280 Doctor Tony Burke has got a job, a job offer in America, but he 625 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:38,160 needs to get married in order to clinch it. 626 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,760 Yes, they want they don't want an unmarriage. 627 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,320 And I don't know, back in those days, I don't know. 628 00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,560 So he's he's going to propose to his his girlfriend Ophelia. 629 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,560 And so he goes to a flat and she's but she's getting ready to 630 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,560 go out with a film director who's a real drag. 631 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,480 Yeah, there's so many of these terms which are so this F for 632 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,440 Fariki. I actually put the subtitles on 633 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,520 to see what she was saying because she says it quite a few 634 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,800 F for Fariki. And I was like, she's actually 635 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,320 saying, I don't know if that was a common term at the time or 636 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,400 it's been thrown in the film. But yeah, there's quite a quite 637 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,600 a a few of those, those, those references in there, which is 638 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:17,920 great. You know, it's a bit of a time 639 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:18,920 capture. I know which way. 640 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,880 It's possibly about probably is about three years behind if you 641 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:24,719 know whatever. Yeah. 642 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,960 Just just like when Terry and June had that episode where they 643 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,800 dressed up as punks, you know they missed that boat by. 644 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:38,960 About four years in 1989, yeah. So he's so he's got to propose 645 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:43,239 to her, but but she's going out with some film director and she 646 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,440 she's not going to be able to see Tony because she's going on 647 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:51,320 a cruise to do some modeling as we referred to earlier. 648 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:56,840 So he decides, so he decides to try and go and you know, meet 649 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,360 her on the cruise ship before it sets sail and propose to her. 650 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,520 And the the ship is called the Golden Horn. 651 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,120 Yes, I did spot that, yes. Yeah, and as I say, we've got 652 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:13,120 we've got Basil Beecham as because because, oh, I've got to 653 00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:18,160 say James Robinson justice as top surgeon Lancelot Spratt, 654 00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,040 who's a fan of the television series or he's a fan of Doctor 655 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,360 Dare. He he diagnosis that his, his 656 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,120 illness was wind and recommends a holiday and he suggests a 657 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,960 cruise on the Golden Horde because his brother is the 658 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,600 captain. So, so, so there we go. 659 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:39,240 So we've got, we've got Leslie Phillips, we've got Simon Dee 660 00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:41,640 both about to get on the on the boat. 661 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:46,800 And then we see Harry Seekum arrives and there's a lovely 662 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,280 little little scene there with Simon Dee, who he recognizes and 663 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,640 he thinks he may have seen him on Coronation Street. 664 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,080 And then he and then he twinks at his doctor Dare and he says 665 00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:59,560 to Basil that he's a pools winner. 666 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,720 He says not to spread it about because they won't be able to 667 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:03,120 pull the girls off him fast enough. 668 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:09,560 Yes, but it's all it's all all all this stuff from Harry seek 669 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,600 and you know the scene and and stuff to come later. 670 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:17,240 It it's done with that, that winning, you know, almost like a 671 00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:19,720 naivety about him. You know, there's something that 672 00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:22,680 just makes it very forgivable about all these, all these stuff 673 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,280 we have coming up with him, you know, all the leering Lectury 674 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,240 stuff coming up. You know, it's it's completely, 675 00:36:28,240 --> 00:36:31,320 he's completely forgiven for it because he's just such a warm, 676 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,040 charismatic man. And I think that's that's a big 677 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,920 thing take away from from his character here, I think. 678 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,840 He's got no hidden depths. What you see is what you get. 679 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,240 Yeah, he does his his emotions to turn on a dime, though, 680 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:47,680 because he he flies into a rage a couple of times, doesn't he? 681 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:54,200 But but no, generally speaking, he's just a very happy go lucky 682 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:58,280 avuncular chap that I'd quite like to be be stuck on a cruise 683 00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:58,960 with. Harry seek him. 684 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,600 I think that would be a very fine thing. 685 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,840 Not playing this character but Harry seek him in general. 686 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:04,960 Absolutely. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. 687 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,000 I'll be right there. I'll be right there. 688 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:12,160 So Doctor, Doctor Burke, Tony, he can't get on the on the boat 689 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,840 because he hasn't got a boarding pass or something. 690 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,560 So he he, he pretends to be a crew member loading luggage so 691 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,200 he can get on. And then we see, we get our 692 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,800 first glimpse of the ship's captain, the ever dependable 693 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,680 Robert Morley. And I can always depend on him 694 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:31,000 to annoy the hell out of me and he bollocks. 695 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,600 Bollocks Tony. I think that's the the technical 696 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:35,640 term. He bollocks Tony for for wearing 697 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,120 suede shoes and drops them in the water. 698 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,360 Yeah. Oh, we've just missed. 699 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,240 We've just missed somebody just as somebody which I think will 700 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:43,200 be interest to the to the Goon fraternity. 701 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:49,160 John Bluthall pops up as a taxi driver for Leslie Flips in this 702 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,960 In this opening, he does. You miss him, yes. 703 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,320 It really is, Yeah. Looking very young, actually. 704 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,800 But yeah, he's, he's there at the, the Southampton docks. 705 00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,680 I say Southampton docks. It's probably, you know, back of 706 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,680 Pinewood somewhere. Course it is. 707 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,960 And for and for reasons, Leslie Phillips, I'm going to just keep 708 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,200 saying Leslie Phillips. I think because it's Leslie 709 00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,720 Phillips for reasons gets knocked out temporarily and by 710 00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:19,200 the time he comes comes to it's dark, the ship is raised anchor 711 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,200 and the voyage has begun. So technically he's a star way. 712 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,600 And then I think a very fine actor. 713 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,000 One of my favorite films ever is The Elephant Man. 714 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:37,120 Yes, in which this actor plays a real shit, if you pardon the 715 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:39,680 pardon the expression Freddie Jones. 716 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,560 Freddie Jones, yes. Father of Toby. 717 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:47,880 Which I did not know until I did a bit of digging and I can kind 718 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,800 of see, you know, the, the comedy nuances, you know, been 719 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,640 passed down. But I, I did not know that. 720 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,640 And I was, you know, surprised to find that out. 721 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,280 Yeah. Toby Jones, who now is possibly 722 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,200 arguably the one of the biggest television stars. 723 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:04,600 I mean, he's a film star as well, but television stars in in 724 00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,840 Britain off the back of what's that Mister Bates versus the 725 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,640 Post Office? Yes, he's very much behind him 726 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,680 at the minute. Yes, yes. 727 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:15,880 Yeah, and, and Freddie Jones has been in so many things over the 728 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,280 years. He's no longer with us, is he? 729 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,080 No, no, he's not. But yeah, a a very good turn, 730 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,480 you know, very good turn indeed. Did some of the Hammer horrors I 731 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:29,800 think and was very good in those two and yeah, yeah, fine sport 732 00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,000 here, you know, playing that kind of almost like a a, a 733 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,360 Windsor Davis kind of role. You know, it's, it's all that 734 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:36,960 kind of. Yes, it wouldn't be that. 735 00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:39,720 Kind of, you know, what's going on here kind of thing and you 736 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:42,880 know, great stuff. So what is he Master at arms. 737 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:44,920 So he's basically in charge of ship discipline and. 738 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,440 That's right and. He's got this kind of little 739 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,920 sort of moustache that Hitler. Yeah, little Hitler mustache. 740 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,720 Little bit of a twitch in one eye, you know? 741 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,880 Yeah. There's one bit later on when 742 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:58,600 he's just barking orders at these, these two sailors and you 743 00:39:58,600 --> 00:39:59,800 can't really figure out what he's saying. 744 00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:04,040 It's all that kind of stuff. It's very, very funny. 745 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,600 I think it's great. He pretty much twigs straight 746 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:07,920 away. Yes. 747 00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,000 That Leslie Phillips is a star whale might. 748 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:11,960 Think it's a right? Yeah. 749 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,760 Something's a right, yeah. Leslie Phillips gives Ophelia's 750 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:21,400 cabin number as his and and when a little while later, Leslie 751 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,720 Phillips opens the door to Freddie Jones, there's a there's 752 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,840 a, what is it like a pink Fennie Bella or something or negligee 753 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,720 draped over his shoulders? And which makes I'm just keep 754 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:38,040 calling him Freddie Jones makes Freddie Jones assume that he's a 755 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,720 female impersonator. Yes, and it's just an 756 00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:44,320 interesting scene because Leslie's character has to play 757 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:48,600 up that he's a cross dresser, you know, and this is 1970 and 758 00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:52,800 and it's it's, you know, it's against that Leslie Phillips 759 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:56,400 masculine kind of image. And he's there, you know, 760 00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,520 because he's not in drag. Don't forget at this point he's 761 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,560 not in drag. That's to come, isn't it? 762 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,960 But at this point it's just insinuated, you know, when to go 763 00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:05,760 out this scrape that he cross dresses. 764 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,760 So he does this really playful, just like touching up a Freddie 765 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:17,000 Jones's outfit and this. You're one of them sometimes. 766 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,000 Oh, I was just asking because as a matter of fact, we often get 767 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,880 the odd female impersonation aboard from time to time. 768 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:33,320 Must you go? Just one more thing, Sir, for 769 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:38,560 anyone on this ship, young ladies are not allowed in single 770 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,000 gentlemen's cabins. Captain's orders. 771 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,560 He doesn't care for premarital relations, as you might say, 772 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,360 even if you do. I said. 773 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,920 I'll be popping on to the person's cabin to do a spot of 774 00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,600 what you might call double, double checking. 775 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,280 I should see you later, Sir. I have no doubt. 776 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,160 I have no doubt either. Now Graham Stark, we see Graham 777 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:05,720 Stark wearing in brown face. Yes, I must say and and the 778 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,720 character is called strategy I think. 779 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,480 Yeah. And and it makes Sellers even 780 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:16,640 Milligan's portrayals of citizens of the Indian 781 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:20,920 subcontinent seem seem understated comparison. 782 00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,520 You know, he's, he's really playing it up. 783 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,160 He does stick out as a sore thumb here. 784 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,480 I think you. Know he does. 785 00:42:28,240 --> 00:42:30,320 Yeah. Because they have a miss because 786 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,600 he's talking to lovely little, well say lovely. 787 00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,240 It's lovely because Harry's a bit, but there's a scene with 788 00:42:35,240 --> 00:42:40,720 him him and because he's he's an A steward, an Indian steward and 789 00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:44,920 he he has a a chat with Harry about there's like a 790 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,720 misunderstanding about Dunkirk, which involves the similarity 791 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,640 between the sound of the the 2 words bomb holes and bum holes. 792 00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:01,440 And I must we forgot to mention Basil Beecham is terminally 793 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,520 seasick and he's confined to his cabin. 794 00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,440 We don't we don't see him to a little bit later, but we have 795 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:11,640 the first evening dinner. How we seeking clue. 796 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,960 Allen arrives to dinner wearing like a dress and gown because, 797 00:43:16,240 --> 00:43:18,640 because he's because for some reason he's chucked most of his 798 00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,200 clothes in the ocean thinking the circular cabin window was a 799 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,440 washing machine, right? I wish we'd seen that scene. 800 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,480 I know it's a nice image without it, but I think Harry could have 801 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,840 the math no work miracles with that bit of. 802 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,000 Well, The thing is right question right it's and I 803 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,000 overthink these things. Two things I don't think cabin 804 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,160 windows open on cruise ships for. 805 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:43,040 That reason? And secondly, he's only been on 806 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,280 the boat a couple of hours. Why is he what, needing to wash 807 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:52,240 his clothes anyway? Anyway, Robert Morley is 808 00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:56,880 startled by his dressing gown and sends him off with the flea 809 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,960 in his ear. And that's when Harry meets Dawn 810 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:04,520 Daley and she and you can tell she's she's put out that he has 811 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,160 to sit with her because he's common little fat man. 812 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,800 And but it's only when he mentions in passing. 813 00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:12,760 Well, the first thing he says to her that is a polls winner. 814 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,000 And and that's when her attitude towards some changes. 815 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:17,000 It does, yeah. And. 816 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,560 We get that lovely shot. Lovely shot to end the scene of 817 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,600 Harry seek him ogling a pair of breasts. 818 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:25,440 That's only Harry. Seek him down. 819 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:32,120 Oh. Did you see that food? 820 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,920 You know the 70s fancy food. Some kind of rifle? 821 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,800 It's yeah. It's icing on it. 822 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:39,640 I. Don't know what it was. 823 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,520 You see photographs in like old magazines from the 70s of. 824 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,080 Exactly like. Desserts or or whatever. 825 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:50,400 And they just seem they're they're like a color that 826 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:57,720 doesn't exist anymore. So we see the next day Roddy 827 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,680 Graham Chapman and the models having photographs take taken 828 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:05,400 around a drained pool. Yes, Leslie Phillips has had to 829 00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:09,360 sleep the night under the tarpaulin in a lifeboat. 830 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:13,600 Yeah, And there's a There's a bit of unnecessary 831 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:21,280 misunderstandings where Roddy the photographer thinks that 832 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:22,960 Leslie Phillips is coming on to him. 833 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,840 He's most upset when. He's not. 834 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:28,400 Leslie Phillips runs away. I'm being chased by Freddie 835 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,240 Jones. Being chased by Freddie Jones. 836 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:31,760 I thought you were going to chase me. 837 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:36,600 I suddenly felt terribly tired. Well, I'm very disappointed. 838 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,600 I'm terribly sorry, I just couldn't run another yard, not 839 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:46,160 one more yard. I think Graham Chapman doesn't 840 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:50,560 like him. Something like that is 841 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:51,920 priceless. Yeah, that's very good. 842 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,280 Very good. Yeah, so Leslie Phillips ends up 843 00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,840 in Basel Beecham's cabin. Oh, this is a good scene. 844 00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:04,120 This is a good scene where he basically, yeah, he pretends the 845 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,040 boats rocking all over the place and he lists all the fried eggs 846 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:09,760 and the bacon and all that kind of stuff. 847 00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,600 And I I enjoy this. It's a good, it feels like a 848 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,000 good little pantomime skit that they would have, you know, you 849 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,760 know, Leslie Phillips and I'm talking about here would have, 850 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:19,920 you know, learned this kind of stuff and, you know, this kind 851 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:23,160 of level of overacting, You know, I I enjoy the scene a lot. 852 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,320 It's good fun, especially when he's knocking the chandeliers. 853 00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,520 You know that bit. Oh, yeah, but it's purely, 854 00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,160 purely in the spirit of mischief, just to just just to 855 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:34,360 agonize, agonize Basil further. Yeah, yeah. 856 00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,320 But he, he, but also he wants to be able to, to share the cabin. 857 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,800 So he's got somewhere to keep. Nick his clothes, yeah. 858 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:42,200 Nick his clothes and eat his food. 859 00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:47,360 Yes. And I must say, Simon Dee, you 860 00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,240 know, at least he's in this film, but he's not in this film 861 00:46:50,240 --> 00:46:51,920 a lot, really, if you think about it. 862 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:53,280 But he's not a bad actor, isn't he? 863 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,600 He comes across as quite a credible actor. 864 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,600 Oh, yeah, no, no, he's fine. He's he's very good. 865 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,560 He's a good. He's a good foil in many ways. 866 00:47:01,240 --> 00:47:04,280 When he's opposite Phillips, you know it's yeah, very good. 867 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,120 I might as well take the opportunity now that we're 868 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,200 talking, we're talking about D yes, I just, I just want to talk 869 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:14,040 about him, but what do you say? What do you know about him 870 00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:16,960 generally now in terms of just that he had ATV series and was? 871 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,440 He had, he was, yeah, he was like a, a, a chat show host. 872 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,240 I, I guess just before this, otherwise they wouldn't have, 873 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,880 you know, he was just high billing and mentioned a big deal 874 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,000 out of it, I guess. But that's that's and and that's 875 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,880 kind of all I know is that he slipped away. 876 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:35,560 And when and whenever Leslie Phipps kind of talked about it, 877 00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,160 he's always been like, oh, it's very so happened to Simon and, 878 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:41,000 you know, he's trying to do another comeback, whatever. 879 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,000 And and that's kind of that is literally all I know about him. 880 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,840 I haven't spoke to my folks about him who were, you know, 881 00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,360 they would have been 1415 when this film came out. 882 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:53,560 So they probably, you know, know of him, but I haven't understand 883 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,320 about him. So no, please educate me. 884 00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,840 He became a a radio Caroline DJI think that's where his career 885 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:01,800 began. Did a bit on the home service or 886 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:05,480 the light program. And then he got, he got, he 887 00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,360 broke into TV by hosting Top of the Pops a couple of times and 888 00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,440 appeared regularly on jukebox jury. 889 00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,320 And he and, and already at this point he was gaining A 890 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:19,280 reputation for being difficult, just clashing with directors, 891 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:20,880 with, with management, with crew. 892 00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:27,400 But then in in 1967, the BBC commissioned D Time, which was 893 00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:31,080 like a chat show and it, you know, attracting audiences of 18 894 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,800 million or more. And it was just anybody who was 895 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:37,080 it, you know, everybody who was anybody on D time to promote 896 00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,560 whatever or just to talk about, you know, what was going on. 897 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,880 And it was it was all the sort of hip and happening people of 898 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:49,200 of the moment. So Lulu, Marty Feldman, Petula 899 00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,640 Clark, of whom more later, John Lennon, Michael Caine, Jimi 900 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,600 Hendrix, you know, Spike. Spike was on D time. 901 00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:02,320 And then he just was throwing his Simon Digg was throwing his 902 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,960 weight around and attempting to dictate what guests he would 903 00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,880 have on the show, what hours he would work, what expenses he 904 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,480 would claim, what advice he would accept. 905 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:15,880 OK, he he was this is quite funny. 906 00:49:16,240 --> 00:49:21,480 In 1969, he was at the top of a a blacklist drawn up by society 907 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:26,120 who were aiming to stamp out the use of the phrase, you know, on 908 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,880 TV. Wow. 909 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,080 Yeah, he he was quite critical. I mean, this is, you know, this 910 00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,480 is this goes in the the the the tick column. 911 00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,000 Because he was quite vocally critical of Enoch Powell. 912 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:44,040 Yes, he was he campaigned against nuclear testing, 913 00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,520 apparently. So, you know, in some ways he 914 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:47,960 was, you know, he was on the right side. 915 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,120 But. But then he was lured away to 916 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:56,520 from BBC One to LWT and. And both the way at that point 917 00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:58,160 was it really there's a lot like going on that time. 918 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,520 Well, yeah, but they they were kind of their their programming, 919 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,720 because they were launched in 68, their programming was quite 920 00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:08,720 highfalutin, kind of arts and drama and ballet and opera and 921 00:50:08,720 --> 00:50:13,600 things like that that, you know, the audience at home didn't 922 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:16,240 really want. So they were trying to, they 923 00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:19,440 were experimenting with changing programming and all sorts of 924 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,320 things. So they lured Simon Dee from the 925 00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:26,600 BBC and Dee tried to kind of get a counter offer. 926 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:33,440 He went to Bill Cotton and said he'd been offered this job with 927 00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,240 LWT and pretty much sort of said you know how much you're going 928 00:50:36,240 --> 00:50:40,280 to pay me to stay with the BBC. And Bill Cotton, he didn't 929 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,720 really like him, basically suggested that he should have a 930 00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:45,440 pay cut instead of. Oh wow. 931 00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:48,800 OK. You know, if you, if what you're 932 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:53,240 saying to me is true, that you value the BBC, then then, yeah, 933 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:55,720 you can stay here, but you'll have to take a 20% pay cut. 934 00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,920 And so Dee didn't like that. And he, he left and joined LWT 935 00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:05,480 and there was clashes between him and David Frost, who was big 936 00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,440 within LWT. And it started I think in 937 00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,880 January 1970, some something like that. 938 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,680 And three weeks after the release of Doctor in Trouble, 939 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,960 the show was cancelled and he was let go by WTLWT. 940 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,400 And he, he, he burned his bridges with the BBC. 941 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,880 So there was no chance of going back there. 942 00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:29,720 One of the shows that on the LWT series had George Lazenby, who 943 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:36,960 was stoned it would appear and was going on about conspiracy 944 00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,480 theories about the death of Kennedy. 945 00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:41,720 Oh Blimey. And John and Yoko were on that 946 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:44,400 show and they were, they were sort of encouraging George 947 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,440 Lazenby in these, the sort of rambling and and then and then 948 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:53,560 Simon Dee kind of thought that shadowy forces were after him. 949 00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,240 Simon Dee. Right. 950 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,640 So he was getting this kind of this paranoia. 951 00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:02,840 And anyway, the point is he was, he was from, from being a huge 952 00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,000 star. He was dropped by LWT, couldn't 953 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,720 get a job anywhere else. So by the time this film comes 954 00:52:07,720 --> 00:52:12,760 out, he's, he's pretty much his career is on the skits. 6 months 955 00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,280 after the film came out, the Daily Mirror reported that he'd 956 00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,520 signed on. He he'd had to queue up at the 957 00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:22,640 Fulham Labor Exchange to sign on and he was interviewed by the 958 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:25,000 Daily Mirror and he said he'd been offered a job as a frozen 959 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,040 food salesman, but he turned it down. 960 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,120 He was offered a few. He was there was the odd sort of 961 00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,040 TV work that he was offered, but it was quite insulting I 962 00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:38,000 suppose. Below him. 963 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,160 Below him, yeah. And then he was up in front of a 964 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,200 judge in 1971 for assaulting A bailiff who'd been attempted to 965 00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:52,560 make an inventory of his home. And he separated from his wife 966 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,480 in 72. Good God, you know, just looking 967 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,120 at this, he was he was put in jail for non payment of speeding 968 00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,880 fines in 73 until his friends paid the debt and he was 969 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:05,400 released. And this, this is the thing, 970 00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:08,760 right? In July 1974, he was in court 971 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,120 for vandalizing a toilet seat right now. 972 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,120 Reach the bottom there, yeah. Now on wiki, if you read 973 00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,040 Wikipedia, it says that the toilet seat it was like a it was 974 00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:22,600 it was in some, I don't know, swanky emporium with kind of 975 00:53:22,800 --> 00:53:28,000 weird and wonderful things in it, including a toilet seat with 976 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,160 the face of Peculiar Clark. Oh, I wonder where you're going 977 00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:33,800 to bring them. Right. 978 00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:37,160 And he, now that's in Wikipedia. That's on Wikipedia. 979 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,960 And, and in actual fact, because, you know, I've read a 980 00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,520 newspaper report from the time it was actually Marilyn Monroe, 981 00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:46,960 not Petula Clark. Now, I prefer, I wish it had 982 00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,600 been Petula Clark because that would be better. 983 00:53:50,720 --> 00:53:53,120 But he'd vandalized it with Marilyn Monroe on it because he 984 00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:56,880 said he found it disrespectful. And this may or may not, I'm not 985 00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:00,360 quite sure, have been the occasion when he'd face the 986 00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,280 ultimate humiliation of being sent to prison by the part time 987 00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:08,600 magistrate who happened to be his old nemesis, Bill Cotton. 988 00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:10,720 Oh goodness me. No, really. 989 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,960 Yeah, in 70. At 75, he trained to become a 990 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,120 London bus driver, but he failed the test due to bad driving as 991 00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:20,200 well as clashing with the union over not wanting to pay their 992 00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,960 fees. And. 993 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:29,320 And he was due in 1976 to start a new job in a local radio 994 00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,040 station in Reading, but walked out because he refused to 995 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,320 interview Alvin Stardust, saying I don't even know the guy. 996 00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,680 And so on and so on and so on. And there was the odd sort of 997 00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,160 sporadic attempts that had come back over the years, but it 998 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:46,760 never happened. It never happened. 999 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:47,720 And he just. He just. 1000 00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:50,920 Yeah, it's someone who star shone very bright before burning 1001 00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:53,480 out, as they say. So there you go. 1002 00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:56,840 And a cautionary tale, I would say. 1003 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,680 He sounds like sounds. Like he had quite an ego. 1004 00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,880 Oh, yes. Which is weird because you think 1005 00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:06,120 that's the one thing you do not need to have as a chat show 1006 00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,920 host. Really poor. 1007 00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,480 But you want the job, really. You know, it's kind of the 1008 00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,360 point, is it really? But yeah. 1009 00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:19,760 So back to the film. Apologies listeners, if that 1010 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,800 was, you know, too much of A ramble about Simon Dee, but I 1011 00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:26,200 thought it was interesting just. I did not know 90% of that. 1012 00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:28,320 So it's yeah, it's yeah. Wow. 1013 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:30,480 When's, when the, you know, when's Toby Jones going to do a 1014 00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:31,160 biopic on him? You. 1015 00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:34,760 Know that would make a great biopic. 1016 00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:36,440 It would, you know. Biopic. 1017 00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,320 Yeah, Yeah. Now. 1018 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:41,920 So yes, we've got Basel in bed, confined to bed because he's 1019 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:47,480 really seasick, even though it's like a milk pond in reality. 1020 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:49,800 And Leslie Phillips has been exaggerating. 1021 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:55,080 But then we we get we get Robert Morley, the captain goes to see 1022 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:59,000 Basel and just and just brusquely dismisses his his 1023 00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:03,360 protestations that he's yeah, yeah. 1024 00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,800 As soon as Basil gets out of bed and sees the sea is calm. 1025 00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,680 He he yeah, he's better, isn't he? 1026 00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,640 Pretty much. I've got my notes here. 1027 00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,520 Meanwhile, Henry Seeking is on deck perving at birds. 1028 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:19,680 Yeah, which I just want to bring this up again. 1029 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:24,160 Just the amount of of nudity in this film, I'm trying to put it 1030 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,280 on a comparison with the Carry ONS, the time. 1031 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:31,360 And so Carry ONS came out Up the Jungle came out early 1970, and 1032 00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,040 it was followed by Carry On Loving, which would come out 1033 00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:38,720 late 1970. And you know, they do have a bit 1034 00:56:38,720 --> 00:56:41,240 of flashing going on here and there. 1035 00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:44,360 But then I looked at this film. I looked at this film, and 1036 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:49,040 Leslie Phillips gets undressed about four different times. 1037 00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:51,440 Yeah, he. Says. 1038 00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,520 Bum and Angela. Yeah, Angela Schuler's flashing 1039 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,480 herself here and there. There's at least three separate 1040 00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,640 photo shoots of the the, the girls in the, you know, scantily 1041 00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,200 clad girls. And and then there's there's to 1042 00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,560 come, Harry Seacom's topless scene. 1043 00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:16,160 Of course, gratuitous topless scene we we see we get a very 1044 00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:18,840 brief moment with the great Fred Emmy. 1045 00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,200 Yes, you're brilliant. Yes. 1046 00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:23,960 Who was he again? Is he the dad of? 1047 00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:27,160 Is he the father of some girl that Harry tries to chat up? 1048 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,600 Yeah, there's, yeah, it is at this point where Harris, he 1049 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,920 comes. Sunbathy, isn't it going on? 1050 00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,680 And and this, this lass is talking with Marilyn Monroe 1051 00:57:38,680 --> 00:57:40,040 again. She stood above some kind of air 1052 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,360 vent, isn't she? And every now and then, her 1053 00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:43,840 dress pillows. That's right. 1054 00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:47,880 And I know. And you know, and rather than 1055 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:50,200 her moving, she just keeps pushing it down. 1056 00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:51,840 And it helps about three times. Oh. 1057 00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,960 Darling, I got the message. What's the next move? 1058 00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,720 I beg your pardon? Yeah, come off it. 1059 00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:03,760 You've been fancying me ever since breakfast. 1060 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,280 I saw that Tom Jones film. You know, the way you ate your 1061 00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:08,880 grapefruit didn't leave much of the imagination. 1062 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,080 This man annoying you, Melissa? Just a minute. 1063 00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,600 I saw her first. Besides, you'll be ashamed of 1064 00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,000 yourself. You don't have to be her father. 1065 00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:28,720 I am her father. 6 Maniac. And Leslie Phillips confesses 1066 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,360 his situation to Basil back in the cabin. 1067 00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:35,000 Yes. And and and this isn't Basil the 1068 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:39,560 character, this is now Simon D I think phones the the bridge to 1069 00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:41,800 grass them up. Yeah, opt him in. 1070 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,440 That's when that's when he gets called a bastard about a dozen 1071 00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,720 times by Leslie Phillips, which I wasn't quite expecting. 1072 00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,040 And he, he, he's just, he's just clad in his vest in pants and he 1073 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:01,400 has to run out of the cabin and oh, there's chasers with Freddie 1074 00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,280 Jones and he and he jumps, he falls down one of the one of 1075 00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:06,840 those things called the shoot that. 1076 00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,480 Yeah, it's some kind of thing, fog, fog thing, I don't know. 1077 00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,120 But yes, he he does fall down it. 1078 00:59:12,440 --> 00:59:15,960 And I wrote down at this point in my notes, Benny Hill 1079 00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:20,120 influence speeded up sequences. That's quite you in this film. 1080 00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,320 And of course, it was a, a trend at the time, but I think going 1081 00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,880 back to Simon D again, Benny Hill had just switched over onto 1082 00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:33,120 LLWT in 1969 as well. And, and, and then his, you 1083 00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,080 know, from BBC and then, and then the shows he's now most 1084 00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,840 remembered for, you know, his, his ITV days started then. 1085 00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:42,080 So this was clearly started around that time as well. 1086 00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,280 And, and yeah, there's some sequences which are speeded up 1087 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:48,560 for no reason at all. I'm going back to that first 1088 00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,680 scene when Leslie Phillips arrives at 11, Clarence of 1089 00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:53,360 Crescent to go and see Simon Dee. 1090 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,200 You know, it's all speeded up. Even the music speeded up like, 1091 00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,000 you're like, why? Yeah. 1092 00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:01,640 It's not making it any funnier going on. 1093 01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:04,320 But now there's quite a few of these Fred, Freddie Jones 1094 01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:07,000 chases, Leslie flips around the quarter deck, you know, going 1095 01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,680 on, and it's all speeded up. And the the xylophone music 1096 01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,680 speed up as well. And it just seems to have a a 1097 01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:17,040 very strong Benny Hill reference references, influence rather 1098 01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:17,600 this film. Yeah. 1099 01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,360 Yeah. Do you remember that 1100 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,360 compilation? There was a feature film which 1101 01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,800 was basically a compilation of Benny Hill televisions. 1102 01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:27,840 Yes, the The Very Best of Benny Hill. 1103 01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,000 Yes, 1974. Yeah. 1104 01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,640 Do you remember there's a sketch in there where he's, he's a, 1105 01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:37,760 he's a television personality. He's driving a sports car and 1106 01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:41,080 he's got a Dolly bird next to him and he's, he's, he's a, a 1107 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:42,760 chat show host and he's interviewing. 1108 01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,160 Yeah, there's a Vicky with his flies open, I think at one 1109 01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:47,240 point. Yeah, yeah. 1110 01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,120 He's trying to move the vase, the flower vase with the mask, 1111 01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:50,960 the camera shot. Yeah. 1112 01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,120 Is it called Tommy? Tommy Time, Tommy. 1113 01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:55,120 D time or something. Yeah, so. 1114 01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,760 So yeah, that's so he was, he was. 1115 01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,680 That was a parody of Oh, Simon D Wow. 1116 01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:04,440 Bring it back full circle. Yeah. 1117 01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:09,680 My next My next guest. My next guest has has come from 1118 01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,080 the West End of London. He is one of London's biggest 1119 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:13,920 West End size. I know you're going to make him 1120 01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,600 very welcome. Here he is. 1121 01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:22,320 Rodney Fairchild. Rodney. 1122 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,400 Rodney. Personally, splendid of you to 1123 01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:27,160 come along. And be my guest on this show. 1124 01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,080 I really AM. Has it thrilled that you haven't 1125 01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:30,840 been able to find time to come along? 1126 01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,000 You have this. You have a reputation of being 1127 01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,760 quite a quite a hell raiser. Do you feel this reputation is 1128 01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:43,000 justified in any way that, that, that you have this, you know, of 1129 01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:46,280 being of being a hell raiser. Do you do you feel in, in in any 1130 01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:51,000 way justified at all? It's a reputation that you have. 1131 01:01:54,960 --> 01:02:03,040 No. Well, there you are here. 1132 01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,320 That's my sound. It's just sort of newspaper 1133 01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,440 publicity. They put labels on, on people, 1134 01:02:08,440 --> 01:02:09,800 don't they? They sort of, you know, they 1135 01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:12,520 will put labels on, but I suppose they put a label on you 1136 01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:14,680 sort of more, you know, sort of like publicity. 1137 01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:17,760 We just said it was publicity. I suppose it's publicity, is it? 1138 01:02:18,840 --> 01:02:27,280 Well, yeah. Oh, well, honestly, you, you. 1139 01:02:27,280 --> 01:02:28,880 Yes, I'm quite surprised about that. 1140 01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,600 You tell me, does it worry you on this reputation? 1141 01:02:33,720 --> 01:02:36,160 Wrong and false, that may be. Does it, does it, does it worry 1142 01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,200 you at all the the reputation that you've got? 1143 01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:43,040 Does it, does it worry you In, in, in, in, in in any way at 1144 01:02:43,040 --> 01:02:46,080 all? No. 1145 01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,760 Well, there you are. Honestly, either go on talking 1146 01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:55,200 with you or. Not and the marvelous Irene 1147 01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,920 Handel makes her interesting. Yes, a late appearance I've 1148 01:02:57,920 --> 01:02:59,880 noted down here. I thought she was in this film, 1149 01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,760 you know, all the way through, so to speak, once they go on 1150 01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:03,680 boat. But no, it's quite a late 1151 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:07,040 appearance here. And but yeah, I mean, I I could 1152 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,600 have Irene handle, you know, how did the whole film. 1153 01:03:10,000 --> 01:03:17,840 All right. Well, I could, you know, I could 1154 01:03:17,840 --> 01:03:20,440 watch her in anything. And she, and she always plays 1155 01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:21,800 these supporting roles, isn't she? 1156 01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,480 And I just wish there'd been some films where she actually 1157 01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:27,760 did take the main role and, and, and been given that maybe she 1158 01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:28,880 didn't want it. I don't know. 1159 01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:32,600 Maybe she was just very happily, you know, supporting role and, 1160 01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:35,800 you know, coming on, doing her turn and getting the money with 1161 01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:36,960 her dog and then walking off, you know. 1162 01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:42,360 Yeah, but but you know, she's she's on fine form here. 1163 01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,000 And they were good at this the Doctor films, I think, you know, 1164 01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,960 all of them. They they had a very good call 1165 01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:51,840 tickle, very, very good call of, you know, your Leslie Phillips's 1166 01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,040 or your, you know, your dirt by guards and your Keith Moore's. 1167 01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:55,680 And, you know, judgement just isn't. 1168 01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,600 And Jo Sims as well. She's she's not a lot of them, 1169 01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,320 but they they always found room for really impressive guest 1170 01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:05,280 stars. Dartha Haynes and the previous 1171 01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,480 one, Fernando Fieldings and the previous one as well. 1172 01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,160 Dennis Price pops up in in one of them. 1173 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,280 You know, just just really good character actors and, and here 1174 01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,560 we have, like it or not, Robert Morley. 1175 01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:21,880 Yeah. But I really handle this is here 1176 01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:25,240 and you know, I if if someone came into this this chat and 1177 01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:28,440 said I already handle steals the film, you know, I I'd be like to 1178 01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,320 know what you're you're probably quite right, to be honest. 1179 01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:35,040 Yes, yes, indeed. She refers to I think she's 1180 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:38,360 angling she she wants to marry her daughter Dawn off. 1181 01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:41,400 Yes. And I think she's got notions 1182 01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:45,200 that she'd like to marry her off to the captain, to Robert. 1183 01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:46,880 Morley. Yes, yes, yes. 1184 01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:48,560 That's that's her a game, isn't it? 1185 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:53,520 That's the top prize, yeah. Because he's a highly eligible 1186 01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:54,560 bachelor. Yes. 1187 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:00,120 And then we've got lunch and is served and Harry arrives in full 1188 01:05:00,120 --> 01:05:04,640 evening wear and everyone stares him, including Robert Morley, of 1189 01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:09,800 course, and and he tells he disdainfully informs who Allen 1190 01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:11,800 that they only wear black tie at dinner. 1191 01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,640 Yes, and we and we get a lovely Raspberry from Harry's. 1192 01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,320 Yes, I noted that down. Yes, it's marvelous, isn't? 1193 01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:24,640 It and Leslie Phillips crawls out of whatever it was that he 1194 01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:26,960 fell down totally blackened. Yes. 1195 01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:30,160 And he and he has to explain. He goes to Ophelia's cabin and 1196 01:05:30,160 --> 01:05:33,640 explains the situation to her, and at one point he says he 1197 01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:36,280 really digs her. Yes. 1198 01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,600 Yeah, which just doesn't sound right coming out of Leslie 1199 01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,000 Phillips. No, it just doesn't, doesn't it? 1200 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:45,800 No, it really doesn't know. And we have we have all the 1201 01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:49,320 events leading up to Freddie Jones arriving at the cabin and 1202 01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:54,200 Leslie Phillips in drag trying to obviously escape. 1203 01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:58,600 Yeah. Look, I wrote, looking like Roy 1204 01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,040 Barraclough doing an impression of Penelope Keith. 1205 01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:05,400 I'd watch it. I'd pay to watch that. 1206 01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:10,760 Yeah, character called Lavinia. Lavinia Paxenbury. 1207 01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,880 Yeah. Laugh for short. 1208 01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:16,800 Yeah, this is, this is a good old trope, isn't it? 1209 01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,040 And it was a matter of time until there'd be some, some drag 1210 01:06:20,040 --> 01:06:23,560 in it somewhere and, yeah, great, great fun. 1211 01:06:23,760 --> 01:06:26,160 And of course, he, he loses the moustache here, doesn't he? 1212 01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:28,920 And and he doesn't wait for the rest of the film. 1213 01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:33,840 So yeah, it's not not that many films, I think where Les Flips 1214 01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:36,800 is, you know, without his trademark moustache, really so. 1215 01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:38,520 Do you know, I didn't even notice that. 1216 01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:40,760 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you mentioned it. 1217 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:42,640 Yeah. I kind of thought it was, it was 1218 01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,720 that kind of a film, that kind of a, a, a, a period of time 1219 01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,360 where they might have tried to, he might have tried to have kept 1220 01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:51,320 it. And so the, the, the Freddie 1221 01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,280 Jones would have fallen for her. You know, she's very hairy up a 1222 01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,560 lip. That's all, you know. 1223 01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:01,640 And there's like, like great shots of of Freddie Jones when 1224 01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:06,520 he does literally tumble who Lavinia is where I think they're 1225 01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,280 doing a bit of, you know, a bit of Patty cake, Patty cake 1226 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,560 amongst them. And then he he hits her too hot, 1227 01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:17,360 Phillips too hard. And Phillips falls backwards and 1228 01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,920 then he catches, he catches Lavinia. 1229 01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:27,520 He actually got his legs splayed around Freddie Jones rocks on 1230 01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:31,760 show and don't. His face is just so, so, so 1231 01:07:31,800 --> 01:07:34,560 good. It's so perfectly over the top. 1232 01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,320 It's wonderful. Unless he flips crawling back 1233 01:07:37,320 --> 01:07:39,560 up, you know, and his wigs off and all sorts of things. 1234 01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,080 Brilliant stuff. Brilliant stuff. 1235 01:07:42,080 --> 01:07:42,680 Yeah. I'm all. 1236 01:07:42,680 --> 01:07:44,320 I'm all that kind of that kind of comedy. 1237 01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:48,160 Good broad stuff, Yeah. So he's rumbled and so he he's 1238 01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:52,200 taken to see the captain and because Robert Morley's brother, 1239 01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:56,400 Lancelot Spratt. Remember him, folks. 1240 01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:00,480 Nose Nose doctor Tony Burke. The captain's inclined to be 1241 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,840 lenient and appoints him as his personal steward, which 1242 01:08:03,840 --> 01:08:07,160 basically means being a skivvy ownership and he has to share a 1243 01:08:07,160 --> 01:08:12,240 cap a cabin with Graham Stark who is naturally is is learning 1244 01:08:12,240 --> 01:08:14,800 English very badly and standing on his head when doing yoga. 1245 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:21,160 Yes, yes, that's all. Yeah, and then the next we've 1246 01:08:21,279 --> 01:08:26,960 got dinner and Harry arrives shot tastefully from from sort 1247 01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:32,120 of nipples up, I think more or less wearing just a black tie. 1248 01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:34,800 Yeah. Over the humanity. 1249 01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,720 I remember the first time I watched this film, you know, in 1250 01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:41,160 my early teens and I and I thought that was the, the best 1251 01:08:41,319 --> 01:08:44,560 joke in the whole film. You know, I told you to wear, 1252 01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,479 you know, bow tie, nothing else, you know, black bow tie, nothing 1253 01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:51,520 else. Either way, just kind of 1254 01:08:51,520 --> 01:08:55,359 laboriously just unravels with the whole room just by table by 1255 01:08:55,359 --> 01:08:59,960 table falling silence. Obviously you can just 1256 01:08:59,960 --> 01:09:02,800 descending those little set of stairs and just walking around 1257 01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,279 the tables and get the, you know, the high-ranking table. 1258 01:09:05,279 --> 01:09:08,760 And they're all just aghast. And it's, it's, it's, it's very, 1259 01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,800 very well played, I think. I think Ralph, Ralph, Rafe, 1260 01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:15,920 Rafe, Ralph Thomas, you know that that's a very good, you 1261 01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:18,920 know, top drawer scene, I think. No, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not 1262 01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,439 saying that Harry Seekin was kind of like, you know, the 1263 01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:25,920 Daniel Day Lewis of his day. But if if he had been method, Oh 1264 01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,279 yes, I'd like to think he would have gone with it and. 1265 01:09:28,399 --> 01:09:32,880 Oh, absolutely. Had his lad out on show, not for 1266 01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:34,960 us, but for the, you know, the rest of the cast and crew. 1267 01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,920 Yeah, it's funny that it's funny that around the same time in the 1268 01:09:40,920 --> 01:09:45,640 film, which I guess is over 2/3 of the film, they know that kind 1269 01:09:45,640 --> 01:09:49,160 of running gag is now milked for it's worth. 1270 01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:50,520 You know, that's that's kind of put to bed. 1271 01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:54,120 Likewise, the Freddie Jones chasing Leslie Phillips not 1272 01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:58,280 gonna say subplot, but you know, trait is is is put to bed. 1273 01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,320 And, and from here onwards, it's it's, I don't know, because 1274 01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:02,880 there's two elements have kind of gone a bit. 1275 01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,640 It does feel a bit like treading water until we get to the actual 1276 01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,200 carnival scene. But that's just my own opinion I 1277 01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:09,840 think. Well, falling into water because 1278 01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:11,800 I feel it falls overboard. And Leslie Phillips. 1279 01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,680 Yes, gets knocked in. Gets knocked in, but he can't 1280 01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:16,680 swim and she saves him now, blah blah blah. 1281 01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:22,040 And the ludicrous bit when they're back on board and Leslie 1282 01:10:22,040 --> 01:10:23,840 Phillips is being examined by the ship's doctor. 1283 01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,840 And then Tony quickest of flash, tells him that he's got 1284 01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:30,320 hepatitis. Africonia yes, which the 1285 01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:32,720 symptoms are these really unnatural looking red spots the 1286 01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:38,080 size of 10 P piece. I love, Yeah, this is, this is, 1287 01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:43,680 it's a wonderful actor called Jimmy Thompson, who worked a lot 1288 01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:47,400 for Betty Box and Peter Rogers in the in the 60s. 1289 01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:50,040 And yeah, he's here as the actual shipped Dr. isn't he? 1290 01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:54,640 And the way they do about it is they've literally just, you 1291 01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:58,760 know, screenshot his face. And then they just added two 1292 01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:01,720 more spots taking a photograph, added two more spots taking a 1293 01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:03,760 photograph. You know, they do that about 1294 01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:06,320 five times. And and that's because that's 1295 01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:07,960 what happened, folks. That's how it works. 1296 01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:10,840 And of course, it puts it puts the ship's doctor out of 1297 01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,840 Commission, which gives a great opportunity for Leslie Phillips 1298 01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:18,240 to be promoted to ship's doctor. And and I could have done 1299 01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,960 without the scene where Robert Moore is talking about as 1300 01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:22,840 Constipation. To be honest. 1301 01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:25,600 Oh, yes, yes, yes. That's just to set up the the 1302 01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:27,200 final bit, isn't it? Yes, yes. 1303 01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:33,080 I wrote down here, and this is probably an old joke, but I, I 1304 01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,680 wrote down, I wrote down verbatim what was said in this 1305 01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:37,680 scene. And I just wrote wow, because 1306 01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:42,120 I've not heard this joke before. And it's Irene Handel visits 1307 01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:45,560 Leslie Phillips, the doctor, and tells him that she wants the 1308 01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:48,840 pill for Dawn. Yes. 1309 01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:51,920 I don't know why she's gone because Dawn's a grown adult. 1310 01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:55,440 But anyway. And then and then there's this 1311 01:11:55,440 --> 01:11:57,360 dialogue between Irene Handel and Lizzie Phillips. 1312 01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:00,080 Has she had them before? Yes. 1313 01:12:00,480 --> 01:12:06,120 But they keep falling out. I think it'd be a good idea, 1314 01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:08,440 Mrs. Daley, for you to ask your daughter to come along and have 1315 01:12:08,440 --> 01:12:10,680 a little chat with me. Point taken. 1316 01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,640 Will do. And I'm inertly grateful to you, 1317 01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:16,000 Doctor. I mean, we are a bit too top 1318 01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,200 drawer to want to join the Pudding Club, aren't we? 1319 01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:22,840 We we get the the, the climax, I said the climax of the film 1320 01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:24,440 almost. It's the fancy dress cocktail 1321 01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:26,400 party. Yes, yes, yeah. 1322 01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:29,560 And and Harry seeking's cheesed off because he's not been 1323 01:12:29,560 --> 01:12:32,920 invited, but then he somehow manages to get in vague of 1324 01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:39,400 himself and and right. Basil turns out dressed as his 1325 01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:42,960 Doctor Dare character, but he's annoyed that half half of the 1326 01:12:42,960 --> 01:12:44,560 other male passengers seem to have done the same. 1327 01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,360 Irene handles kind of in this Marie Antoinette. 1328 01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:51,680 Outfit. Leslie Phillips has done up as 1329 01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:56,160 Julius Caesar. Yeah, Nero or something, Some 1330 01:12:56,160 --> 01:13:00,360 kind of yeah, he reminds me of Yeah, nauseas from a Pompeius. 1331 01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:06,400 Yeah, and then Harry arrives dressed as Robert Morley. 1332 01:13:06,480 --> 01:13:12,160 Yes, well, the captain, I should say with the with you know, and 1333 01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:17,880 and Molly's been sipping orange juice laced with Castor oil. 1334 01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,440 Yeah, yeah. For his Constipation. 1335 01:13:20,440 --> 01:13:25,600 So he gives it, he gives Harry the drink, which obviously means 1336 01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:32,680 that Harry starts, you know, having problems and has to nip 1337 01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,880 off to the the bog on a regular basis. 1338 01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:39,120 There's the, there's the dance. There's the he bumps into Harry, 1339 01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:41,480 bumps into someone dressed up as Cleopatra, and we get the 1340 01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:44,480 obligatory ASP gag. Yeah, always welcome. 1341 01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:50,440 Yeah, at 1.1 point Irene handles wig gets caught in his zip. 1342 01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:52,320 Flies. Yeah. 1343 01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,920 This is a, it's a, it's a lot. It's a lot more boardier. 1344 01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:59,120 It's, it's, it's a lot more laboratorial humor than that. 1345 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:04,280 They know the days of Kay Kendall and, you know, Bogart 1346 01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:06,960 romancing, you know, in the 1950s. 1347 01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:11,040 You know, it, it, it is. It hasn't moved on so, so much 1348 01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:12,480 this series by this point. Yeah. 1349 01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:16,360 And then there there's the striptease, as we mentioned, 1350 01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:19,600 Yes. And it it's curtailed, I think 1351 01:14:20,480 --> 01:14:24,760 Robert Morley asks for there to be an alarm set off to try and, 1352 01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:29,040 yeah, bring an end to it all. And it panics the passengers and 1353 01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:32,640 we get Graham Stark falling into the pool and but remarkably, his 1354 01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:34,440 makeup doesn't wash off. Yes. 1355 01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,760 And Basil, or should I say Simon D? 1356 01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:44,240 Yeah, proves that he's like, you know, he's a shit on the scale 1357 01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:45,960 of that. What's that guy from the 1358 01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:47,600 Titanic? Bruce Ismay? 1359 01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:48,120 Was that his? Name. 1360 01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:50,440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he pinched. 1361 01:14:50,440 --> 01:14:52,960 He pinches Leslie Phillips's Life Fest. 1362 01:14:53,040 --> 01:14:54,760 That's right. Yeah, Yeah, yeah. 1363 01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:57,440 And be first on the on the lifeboats. 1364 01:14:57,560 --> 01:15:00,040 And then it turns out obviously it's a false alarm. 1365 01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:03,200 That's right. And then we have this kind of 1366 01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:06,680 weird ending really, where there's an SOS. 1367 01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:08,800 Trying to feel the film sorted itself out. 1368 01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:11,560 But no, there's this extra Yeah, epilogue. 1369 01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:14,520 It feels like really extra. And I'd forgotten there's two, 1370 01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:16,240 there's two people in this film that I'd forgotten about. 1371 01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:18,000 I'd seen their names in the opening credits. 1372 01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:20,800 And it's not too. It's, Well, the last 10 minutes 1373 01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:24,960 of the film, Leslie Phillips has to be winched across water to a, 1374 01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:29,120 a, a like a Russian frigate. Yeah, because he needs to 1375 01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:32,440 perform an emergency appendectomy. 1376 01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:34,160 That's right. And the. 1377 01:15:34,240 --> 01:15:37,920 The captain, the Russian captain is is Joni Sims there? 1378 01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:42,400 We go, yeah, Joan's been in a few of these films. 1379 01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:49,240 She's in the 1st 1501954 and it was her cameo in that which 1380 01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:51,120 brought her to the attention. Peter Rogers. 1381 01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:53,800 So that's kind of how she loosely became involved with the 1382 01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:58,200 camera on series. And she's certainly in Doctor in 1383 01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:02,080 Love, she's in Doctor in Clover, and her roles got bigger with 1384 01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:04,160 the films. So I think in Doctor and Clover, 1385 01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:08,280 she actually plays the matron, which incidentally was how it 1386 01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:11,200 came about that she was offered matron in Carry On Doctor 1387 01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:13,920 because Hattie Jakes are not made to carry on for about 3 1388 01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,000 years by that point. So she kind of faded from the 1389 01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,520 series. And Joan Sims, God bless her, 1390 01:16:20,440 --> 01:16:22,720 when she read the character script, I was like, thanks for 1391 01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:24,520 offering me the matron. But, you know, it's clearly a 1392 01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:26,560 role written for for my friend Hattie Jakes. 1393 01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,640 And Peter Rogers gave it to Hattie Jakes, and she was, you 1394 01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:33,880 know, back in the series and Joan Sims, Excellent. 1395 01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:35,320 And you want to watch? She played. 1396 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:40,800 She played Frankie Howard's a very doting, I guess, secretary 1397 01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:42,080 kind of role. And. 1398 01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:43,600 But no. So she's back here. 1399 01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:46,280 Yeah, very, very small role. And you're right, right at the 1400 01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:48,200 end of the film, kind of forgotten where she's gonna be 1401 01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:50,640 in the film. And she crops, crops up, yes. 1402 01:16:51,640 --> 01:16:57,360 And she, she opens, she, she applies the numbing age, doesn't 1403 01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:01,400 she, to the pat the patients, to just walloping her in the face. 1404 01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:05,280 Yeah. I make him sleep. 1405 01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:11,000 Bang, he's sleep. She could join Sims, she could 1406 01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:14,240 play simpering, she could play dowdy, she could play hard 1407 01:17:14,240 --> 01:17:16,720 faced, she could play glamorous. Yeah. 1408 01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,240 Yeah, yeah. You know, all in the same film 1409 01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:20,200 sometimes. Yeah. 1410 01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:23,200 Yeah. And they were very good friends, 1411 01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:27,320 Leslie Phillips and Joan Sims. They they they loved working 1412 01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:28,720 together. They had the same kind of work 1413 01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,040 ethics and that kind of stuff. So. 1414 01:17:30,480 --> 01:17:33,000 So yeah, I know they always enjoyed it. 1415 01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,680 In fact, Leslie Phillips has gone down on record ISM saying 1416 01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,720 how much of A friend Harry Seekon became, you know, from 1417 01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:42,320 working on this film and. Oh yeah, he loved, yeah, he 1418 01:17:42,320 --> 01:17:43,640 loved me to go with his family and that. 1419 01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:46,200 And he said I've got it down here from his autography. 1420 01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:48,480 One of the nicest people I ever met. 1421 01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:50,840 There we go. Ah, let's see Bits and Harry 1422 01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,080 seek him. Very jolly. 1423 01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:55,760 Very. Yeah, and Harry, Harry's gone on 1424 01:17:55,760 --> 01:18:00,000 record and said that, you know, yes, he was making films around 1425 01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:03,880 this period, quite a few, but he was always kept down to earth by 1426 01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,320 Myra, his wife. When I came back from golf, it's 1427 01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:16,960 Arnold Palmer's old Men. When I got home from the film 1428 01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,720 studio is come on, Gregory Peck, get some coal of a fire. 1429 01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:23,280 When she came home from the nursing home with my fourth 1430 01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,480 child. I won't tell you what you said 1431 01:18:25,480 --> 01:18:29,720 anyway. Just starting with the kiss of 1432 01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:32,600 life anyway. But really, you know. 1433 01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:38,480 Yeah, and The thing is right, he does this pendant, I can't say 1434 01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:41,840 appendectomy successfully. And everyone applauds because 1435 01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,520 they're all watching all the Russian sailors. 1436 01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:47,120 So he's kind of getting, in a way, Dr. Doctor Tony Burke is 1437 01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:50,440 getting the sort of audience that Doctor Dare. 1438 01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:54,240 Yes, yes. But yeah, once he's finished, 1439 01:18:54,240 --> 01:18:56,840 he's dismayed to find the the Golden Horn has sailed off 1440 01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:58,640 without him. Which I think is a bit bit on 1441 01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:00,760 the nose, isn't it really? Just a bit rather. 1442 01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,720 And he he has to stay on the ship and they're off to Grimsby. 1443 01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:08,120 They're off to my hometown of Grimsby, yes. 1444 01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:11,720 Yeah, OK. So I love that. 1445 01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:13,960 Ridiculous though, you know, where are we docking our first 1446 01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:17,000 port? Grimsby always gets a little, 1447 01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:18,840 little little chair in the in the, in the John Hewitt 1448 01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:19,400 household. Yeah. 1449 01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:25,920 Cut to like, I guess a week or two passes and Tony pulls up 1450 01:19:26,080 --> 01:19:29,840 again in a taxi. Not driven by John Pluto this 1451 01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:30,120 time. No. 1452 01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:35,800 The golden horns just docked and the passengers are disembarking. 1453 01:19:36,320 --> 01:19:41,240 And he rushes up to a failure to to finally propose to her. 1454 01:19:41,240 --> 01:19:43,960 And then she tells him that she's she's married the ship's 1455 01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:45,760 doctor because she'd always wanted to marry a doctor. 1456 01:19:46,280 --> 01:19:47,680 Yeah. Phillips says, well, what about 1457 01:19:47,680 --> 01:19:48,680 me? And she said, well, you never 1458 01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:50,800 asked me. It's true. 1459 01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:56,320 Well, yeah. And Harry seek him, has also got 1460 01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:57,720 married. He got married to Dawn. 1461 01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:00,800 Yes, but it's only as the getting off. 1462 01:20:01,520 --> 01:20:05,080 The ship that he reveals to them, him, her and her mother, 1463 01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:06,680 that he's not actually all that rich. 1464 01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:11,280 He's got a motorcycle and a sidecar and a nice one room 1465 01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:12,520 flat. 30 Bob a week. Yeah. 1466 01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:18,480 Yeah, she's like, how I really handles, says something like how 1467 01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,880 how are you going to keep my daughter happy? 1468 01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:23,560 And he just lifts off this thing like, oh, there's a, there's a 1469 01:20:23,560 --> 01:20:25,640 white fridge, there's an ironing board. 1470 01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:29,800 All these mod ponds in the kitchen goodness. 1471 01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,480 Me, I really handles Face as black as Thunder. 1472 01:20:32,600 --> 01:20:37,680 Yeah. And then again, a name that I 1473 01:20:37,680 --> 01:20:39,840 saw in the opening credits and I'd forgotten. 1474 01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:44,240 Jackie Piper turns up because we've got Tony. 1475 01:20:44,440 --> 01:20:47,600 Doctor Burke, crestfallen. He's about to get back in his 1476 01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:51,080 taxi. And then Jackie Piper, she, it's 1477 01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:54,120 like she, she, she sort of tries to come on to Tony. 1478 01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:56,720 Yes. And ask if she can share his 1479 01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,840 taxi. But then it's it's just so that 1480 01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:02,680 she can she can call over her large family who will cram into 1481 01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:04,680 the taxi. Yeah, it's another one of those 1482 01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,040 endings where you think you know what's coming, and then no, it's 1483 01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:08,200 it's, but it's pulled away again. 1484 01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:11,600 And yeah, very nice little tag, nice little button on the whole 1485 01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,440 film. Yeah, so we've whipped through 1486 01:21:14,440 --> 01:21:19,000 that, but I mean at the bits, favorite bits, bits I forgot to 1487 01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,680 mention that you want to talk about. 1488 01:21:21,240 --> 01:21:24,760 I, I think it's, it's just, you know, like all these films, you 1489 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:28,160 know, it's a film, it's time. And I think it was very brave in 1490 01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:30,600 many ways when you, when you watch it in the context in which 1491 01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:34,880 it was made, you know, they were trying to sort of, you know, 1492 01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:38,440 make it connect with the, the ITV series, the other T series, 1493 01:21:38,440 --> 01:21:40,680 which is clearly, you know, going from strength to strength. 1494 01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:43,600 And there had been a four year gap from the previous film. 1495 01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:47,320 And, you know, we're used to four year gaps, 5 year, 10 year 1496 01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:50,440 gaps in between film franchises, you know, these days. 1497 01:21:51,040 --> 01:21:53,960 But back then, you know, that that was probably quite a a 1498 01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:55,760 hefty gap. You know, the bonds would turn 1499 01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:59,280 them out every two years, you know, carry on every two months. 1500 01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,280 Yeah. You know, before a four year gap 1501 01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:05,440 probably did did say, you know, the writer on the wall and the 1502 01:22:05,440 --> 01:22:06,560 gig was up. Really. 1503 01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:12,640 So, yeah, I, I, I was amazed when I rewatched it just how 1504 01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:17,160 much is more akin to the the 70s Carry On films more than 1505 01:22:17,160 --> 01:22:20,280 obviously the 50s Doctor films or even the 60s Doctor films, 1506 01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,640 you know, which would keep up with the times. 1507 01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:30,280 And, and oh, one thing else I, I, I read was this is one of the 1508 01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:35,400 very few films that Philips owns a percentage of the bet. 1509 01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:39,560 Yeah, Betty Box was was struggling to raise the money 1510 01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,120 for this one. And so they they often have cut 1511 01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:46,080 the percentages which he took. So he's gone down his record 1512 01:22:46,080 --> 01:22:50,000 saying it's his favorite film. It'll be shown more so that 1513 01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:55,120 he'll get some residual fee. It's it's hardly Alec Guinness 1514 01:22:55,120 --> 01:23:03,320 and Star Wars there is it? Let's face it, very good, very 1515 01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:07,560 good. So before we wrap up, I just, if 1516 01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:13,560 you don't mind, John, I just want to mention sort of podcast 1517 01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:19,440 news here, OK. So what I hope to introduce on 1518 01:23:19,440 --> 01:23:23,640 Gubpod as additional content, bonus content will be a monthly 1519 01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:28,040 bonus episode in which myself and guests look at favorite 1520 01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:32,520 British comedy films in general. And these could be any, well, 1521 01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:35,160 classic or not so classic films, as long as they're British 1522 01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:37,720 comedy films and they can be from, they can be from the, you 1523 01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:41,440 know, 30s up to present day really, or earlier. 1524 01:23:42,440 --> 01:23:44,880 But the one stipulation is that they must not contain a single 1525 01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:46,600 goon. So no sellers, no Milligan 1526 01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:50,800 seeking or painting, but there'll be chats in the usual 1527 01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:54,880 goon pod house style all over the shop and rambling and 1528 01:23:55,440 --> 01:23:57,520 Wittering on and all that sort of thing, but hopefully 1529 01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:01,200 entertaining to listeners. And I've got a number of guests 1530 01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:03,360 scheduled to record later this year. 1531 01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:07,360 And and I'll share a handful of the films that we hope to cover. 1532 01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:10,160 Maybe not all this year, but certainly some of these will be 1533 01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:15,520 Billy Liar, Kind Hearts and Coronets stepped on some ride 1534 01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:18,000 again. Oh, you're awful. 1535 01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:20,800 Yeah. Oh, you're awful. 1536 01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:24,200 Shaun of the Dead, even, which is quite modern for this 1537 01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:27,480 podcast. And I've got I've got guests 1538 01:24:27,480 --> 01:24:33,720 that have agreed to to guest the likes of they've all been on the 1539 01:24:33,720 --> 01:24:37,080 show before these these people, Chris Diamond, Jeremy, Jeremy 1540 01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:40,240 Limple, Litchfield, David Quantic, Tim Worthington, even, 1541 01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:43,520 whisper it, David Renwick. Oh, I'm superb. 1542 01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:47,200 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who I'm hoping he said he's up 1543 01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:50,480 for it, will want to come on and talk about the film version of, 1544 01:24:50,480 --> 01:24:53,720 whoops, Apocalypse. Oh, that's no, I love that film. 1545 01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:58,560 I haven't seen it for years, so I'll have to reacquaint myself 1546 01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,480 with that. Now The this monthly bonus 1547 01:25:01,480 --> 01:25:05,280 episode probably be kicking in around sort of July, June, July, 1548 01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:07,880 something like that. And it'll be on Patreon. 1549 01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:10,840 So it'll be it'll be around if, if people want to listen to 1550 01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:13,560 it'll be around 333 quarter month, right. 1551 01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:16,920 But you know, when did you last spend 3 lbs on such a bargain? 1552 01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,640 And and in the future, I intend to offer other bonus content, 1553 01:25:20,920 --> 01:25:23,520 whatever that may be, but I'll be guarded by you lot on what 1554 01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:26,280 what they could be. And I know some people may 1555 01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,480 grumble that I'm monetizing to podcast, but it's it's you know, 1556 01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:32,640 the regular podcast, the week podcast will be totally freeze 1557 01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:34,600 the air that you breathe, you know, no change. 1558 01:25:35,600 --> 01:25:39,640 And it just it, it will help keep it running, it keep it 1559 01:25:39,640 --> 01:25:42,200 growing and also help cover costs and things like that. 1560 01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:44,040 But I'm. All for it I'm all for. 1561 01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:47,120 It I think it's great, yeah. And world. 1562 01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:50,360 Supported as well. So whenever that starts, I mean, 1563 01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:55,080 already there's you know, there is a Patreon goon pod page. 1564 01:25:55,080 --> 01:26:01,720 It's patreonpatreon.com/goonpod. And I'll be posting more and 1565 01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:03,240 more stuff there as the as it grows. 1566 01:26:03,480 --> 01:26:07,560 And you can join for free, you know, and then if you want to 1567 01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:12,440 get the bonus episode or episodes, you can then change to 1568 01:26:12,480 --> 01:26:14,760 the paid tier. I think that's how it works. 1569 01:26:16,120 --> 01:26:17,920 So, yeah, so that that will be happening. 1570 01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:21,280 As I said, you know, apologies for for going off on about that, 1571 01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:25,040 but I just wanted to I'm just starting to promote that now, 1572 01:26:25,160 --> 01:26:26,600 so. That's great, yeah. 1573 01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:30,720 So John, what what about you? What have you got in terms of 1574 01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:32,800 your professional career? What have you got coming up? 1575 01:26:32,800 --> 01:26:34,000 What are you working on at the moment? 1576 01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:39,800 I am touring a self penned theatre show called Maybe Dick. 1577 01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,680 Oh yes, I saw that. As in I saw I was reading about 1578 01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:45,400 that, yes. So that's great. 1579 01:26:46,160 --> 01:26:50,360 Yeah, it's it's, it's very much. I'm very grateful that I've had 1580 01:26:50,480 --> 01:26:52,880 some really nice reviewers come along and they've they've, 1581 01:26:52,880 --> 01:26:55,720 they've said, you know, if you want to see Carry on Moby Dick 1582 01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:58,800 and this is the show for you and you know little of me, I would 1583 01:26:58,800 --> 01:27:00,200 love to come and see Carry on Moby Dick. 1584 01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:03,080 So I'm very, very proud, very proud that people. 1585 01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:04,880 Kenneth Kenneth Williams was in Moby Dick. 1586 01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:09,040 He was, Yes, he was. Yeah, with Orson Welles behind. 1587 01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:13,880 Orson Welles, Yeah. Yeah, so I'm I'm touring that in 1588 01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:15,520 a minute and I'm really enjoying that. 1589 01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:21,160 And it's, it's, it's just a a really good night out. 1590 01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:23,840 And it's, it's, it's just all this kind of comedy. 1591 01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:26,560 And it's nice to listen to an audience for it, if I'm honest. 1592 01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:32,440 And then later on this year, we are staging a revival of the 1593 01:27:32,440 --> 01:27:35,600 lost TV episodes of Hancock's Off Hour. 1594 01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:36,880 So. And that's cool. 1595 01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:39,920 Yeah. So it's 100 years of Hancock 1596 01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:43,160 this year, 70 years radio. Yeah. 1597 01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:47,680 And the BBC done a great job in re recording the lost raid 1598 01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:54,320 episodes with Kevin McNally. And but there's still 2022 lost 1599 01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:58,120 TV episodes, you know, recorded, transmitted, missing between 1600 01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:00,560 wipes. Scripts still survive. 1601 01:28:01,440 --> 01:28:04,080 And they're very, very funny. They're very, very good. 1602 01:28:04,440 --> 01:28:07,160 And with a little bit out of adaptation and you know, they, 1603 01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:10,200 they suit the stage stage world very, very well. 1604 01:28:10,200 --> 01:28:15,720 So we're doing 3 episodes of that September to November and 1605 01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:19,720 I'm just currently in the pre production stages for that and 1606 01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:22,040 again, going across the UK with it. 1607 01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:26,600 And I'm, I'm so excited and, and you know, very, very lucky to be 1608 01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,880 entrusted with that, you know, because it's such that, you 1609 01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:32,720 know, it is, it's comedy royalty, you know, this kind of 1610 01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,880 stuff, isn't it? So to be entrusted with it and, 1611 01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:40,520 and to be doing it at all feels very, very, I feel very 1612 01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,680 privileged indeed to be, to be interested with that. 1613 01:28:42,680 --> 01:28:46,080 And, and it's again, nice to know there's an audience for it. 1614 01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:48,680 You know it's, it'll be very well supported, I'm sure. 1615 01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:52,400 Oh, Hancock's still very, very popular as a good. 1616 01:28:52,800 --> 01:28:56,440 Yeah, And of course there was the the a lost episode of the 1617 01:28:56,440 --> 01:28:59,440 radio show turned up recently, waiting to hear it with Harry 1618 01:28:59,440 --> 01:29:01,960 Seekin. Yes, that's a did, didn't it? 1619 01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:04,440 Yeah, I think. Is there any plans for that to 1620 01:29:04,440 --> 01:29:05,640 be? There is. 1621 01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:07,800 I think it's being. I presume it's being cleaned up 1622 01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:10,440 or or whatever. I'll be held back for Christmas 1623 01:29:10,440 --> 01:29:12,000 or something like. That maybe, yeah, because there 1624 01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:16,000 was the Peter Sellers episode of Hancock's Half Hour that was 1625 01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:19,680 filmed a year or so ago. So that. 1626 01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:22,840 Was theories 2 early episode series 2 wasn't at the radio 1627 01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:25,800 series when Hancock were saved. Pretty much. 1628 01:29:25,800 --> 01:29:28,640 Oh, the the Harry seeking one. Yeah, yeah, I think so. 1629 01:29:28,640 --> 01:29:31,960 Harry was in three episodes, yes, but the but the third 1630 01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:34,720 episode, which I think this one is he's only in it briefly 1631 01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:36,320 because I think Hancock's back by that. 1632 01:29:36,440 --> 01:29:39,840 He just he thanks Harry for looking after the shop or 1633 01:29:39,840 --> 01:29:42,000 whatever. Strange way. 1634 01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:45,200 Yeah. And so keep keep your eyes on 1635 01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:49,760 social media and and whatnot for news of, of, of that folks. 1636 01:29:49,760 --> 01:29:54,520 And and John, you know, please do come back sometime and if you 1637 01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:56,200 want to talk about something else, you know. 1638 01:29:56,520 --> 01:29:59,000 Oh, I'd love to talk about some, some of the other films. 1639 01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,480 Yeah, I'd love, love to love. Oh yeah, no problem at all. 1640 01:30:01,480 --> 01:30:05,760 I'd love to. It's exactly my realm when 1641 01:30:05,760 --> 01:30:08,480 everyone else was was, you know, either watching, you know, 1642 01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:12,160 football or, or the the films that they know that the Lord of 1643 01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:14,600 the Rings trilogy or whatever else was going on at school or 1644 01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:19,320 that I was, I was just completely enraptured by this 1645 01:30:19,320 --> 01:30:22,360 kind of comedy. And yeah, long may continue and 1646 01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:24,960 the work you do and, you know, into, into, you know, just 1647 01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:27,880 extend these legacies. It's it's fantastic and should 1648 01:30:27,880 --> 01:30:29,200 be applauded, I think all the time. 1649 01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:30,480 Yeah. Thank you very much. 1650 01:30:30,480 --> 01:30:31,680 Can I have that in money, please? 1651 01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:35,680 You can, John. Thanks a lot, mate. 1652 01:30:35,720 --> 01:30:37,320 We'll talk again soon. Dear Sina.