'Again Doctor' ( 1969 ) proved to be Jim Dale's last film in the 'Carry On series for twenty-three years ( he foolishly signed on for 'Columbus' in 1992 ). It cast him as the accident-prone but likable 'Dr.Jim Nookey' of Little Hampton hospital, a man who cannot so much as use an X-ray machine without causing chaos. After losing his girlfriend - the sexy model 'Goldie Locks' ( Barbara Windsor ), and scaring to death a woman patient afraid of men - he is sent in disgrace to a medical mission in the Beatific Islands, run by the seedy Gladstone Screwer ( who else but Sid James? ). Gladstone has developed a weight reduction formula. Sensing a chance to make money, Nookey flies home with some of the stuff. In no time at all he is running a posh clinic in partnership with the rich widow 'Ellen Moore' ( Joan Sims ). Disgusted by his upswing in fortunes is 'Frederick Carver' ( Kenneth Williams ), and his sneaky side-kick 'Dr.Walter Stoppage' ( Charles Hawtrey ). They conspire to bring Nookey down...
Talbot Rothwell's script for this movie originated for the rival 'Doctor' series; in fact it was to have been 'Doctor In Clover', until Jack Davies came along with another version. Its not as good as 'Nurse' or 'Doctor', but better than 'Matron'. There were some concerns that 'Nookey' was too similar to Leslie Phillips' 'Dr.Tony Burke/Gaston Grimsdyke' and that 'Frederick Carver' might strike audiences as James Robertson Justice's 'Sir Lancelot Spratt' by another name. Dale is his usual chirpy self. Yes, that really is him in its most famous scene - hurtling down stairs on a trolley while Carver and the Matron ( Hattie Jacques ) look on in disbelief. This scene was later used as the title sequence to I.T.V.'s 'Carry On Laughing' compilation series. All the regulars - barring Bernard Bresslaw and Kenneth Connor - are present and correct, although there's surprisingly little of Peter Butterworth. He's confined to a short scene in which Nookey and a fellow doctor ( Peter Gilmore ) debate which illness he is suffering from.
Things To Look Out For - no, its not Babs Windsor's arse ( nice though it is! ) but a cameo by Wilfrid 'Steptoe' Brambell as a dirty old man called 'Mr.Pullen' who is receiving hormone injections on the N.H.S. and as a result keeps making improper suggestions to nurses. The 'Steptoe & Son' series ended in 1965, but Eric Rogers included a few bars of Ron Grainer's theme ( the show would be revived in colour the following year ). The party scene features Rogers himself as bandleader. Some of the music was first heard in 'Carry On Spying' and 'Nurse On Wheels' ( a Peter Rogers comedy starring Juliet Mills as a district nurse ).
Funniest moment - Nookey jumps into a hammock in the medical mission, only to go crashing through the floor boards! ( it was not so funny for Dale though, and gave him a back injury he still has to this day! )
Talbot Rothwell's script for this movie originated for the rival 'Doctor' series; in fact it was to have been 'Doctor In Clover', until Jack Davies came along with another version. Its not as good as 'Nurse' or 'Doctor', but better than 'Matron'. There were some concerns that 'Nookey' was too similar to Leslie Phillips' 'Dr.Tony Burke/Gaston Grimsdyke' and that 'Frederick Carver' might strike audiences as James Robertson Justice's 'Sir Lancelot Spratt' by another name. Dale is his usual chirpy self. Yes, that really is him in its most famous scene - hurtling down stairs on a trolley while Carver and the Matron ( Hattie Jacques ) look on in disbelief. This scene was later used as the title sequence to I.T.V.'s 'Carry On Laughing' compilation series. All the regulars - barring Bernard Bresslaw and Kenneth Connor - are present and correct, although there's surprisingly little of Peter Butterworth. He's confined to a short scene in which Nookey and a fellow doctor ( Peter Gilmore ) debate which illness he is suffering from.
Things To Look Out For - no, its not Babs Windsor's arse ( nice though it is! ) but a cameo by Wilfrid 'Steptoe' Brambell as a dirty old man called 'Mr.Pullen' who is receiving hormone injections on the N.H.S. and as a result keeps making improper suggestions to nurses. The 'Steptoe & Son' series ended in 1965, but Eric Rogers included a few bars of Ron Grainer's theme ( the show would be revived in colour the following year ). The party scene features Rogers himself as bandleader. Some of the music was first heard in 'Carry On Spying' and 'Nurse On Wheels' ( a Peter Rogers comedy starring Juliet Mills as a district nurse ).
Funniest moment - Nookey jumps into a hammock in the medical mission, only to go crashing through the floor boards! ( it was not so funny for Dale though, and gave him a back injury he still has to this day! )