Trivia / Carry On Camping

• Actor-Shared Background: Hattie Jacques, who played Miss Haggerd, the Matron, was a nurse in the VAD during World War II.
• Banned in China: The film was banned in Ireland on its domestic release due to offense over the famous scene where Babs loses her top.
• Blooper:
  • As he is about to leave Joan's house, Mrs. Fussey is right behind Sid as he walks around his car. However, in the next shot, she is far behind him.
  • Babs disappears from some of the morning PT scenes during the wide shots.
  • Dr. Soaper is halfway out the back of his tent when Miss Haggerd joins him, but in the next shot, he is fully inside.
• Completely Different Title:
  • Belgium: Camping Madness.
  • Brazil: Merrymaking at Camping.
  • Denmark: On Again, Campers.
  • France: The Crazy People of the Campsite.
  • Germany: The Totally Crazy Camping Paradise.
  • Greece: Girls in the Naturist Paradise.
  • Hungary: Keep Camping!/Continue at the Campsite or Forget the Sleeping Bag!.
  • Netherlands: Girls Camping.
  • Norway: Leave Your Sleeping Bag at Home!.
  • Poland: Full Speed Ahead: Holidays! Let's do It!.
  • Portugal: The Trouble with Camping.
  • South America: I Want a Nudist Girlfriend.
  • Spain: Control Yourself, Hiker.
  • Sweden: Look, Let's Go Camping.
  • Turkish: Crazy Camp.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: The back of the 2005 Australian DVD release by Magna Pacific incorrectly calls Joan Sims' character "Esme Crowfoot" (her character in Carry On Loving) instead of Joan Fussey.
• Creator Backlash: Julian Holloway thought making the film was a miserable shoot, and later admitted he wasn't remotely proud of any of his work with the Carry On films.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: This and Carry On Up the Khyber were Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas' favourites because they topped the box-office takings for 1968-9.
• The Danza:
  • Sid James as Sid Boggle.
  • Charles Hawtrey as Charlie Muggins.
  • Joan Sims as Joan Fussey.
  • Barbara Windsor as Babs.
  • Bernard Bresslaw as Bernie Lugg.
  • While Dr. Soaper's first name is not revealed in the film itself, Word of God confirms his first name is Kenneth, just like Kenneth Williams.
  • In addition, the coach driver, Jim Tanner, was originally written with Jim Dale in mind.
• Dawson Casting: The Chayste Place schoolgirls were played by actresses in their late 20s or early 30s rather than in their late teens or early 20s (for example, Barbara Windsor was 31).
• Deleted Role:
  • Rosemary, a girl who took Babs' place in the iconic bikini top scene in earlier drafts.
  • Dan, a roadside café proprietor.
• Deleted Scene:
  • The BBFC removed several lines of dialogue relating to phallic symbols, such as "There's quite a lot of difference between our legs".
  • Mr. Muggins' scene with Miss Dobbin lost the line "She's been showing me how to stick my pole up" thanks to the BBFC and the refilmed scene changed "my pole" to "the pole"
  • Dr. Soaper catching Jim trying to enter Sally's room:
    Dr. Soaper: I know that these girls attend my school to be finished off but there are limits.
  • Jim trying to help Sally with her bag and spilling its contents.
  • When Dr. Soaper explains how to put up a tent, the BBFC cut the line "Erection is fairly simple; it's getting it to stay up", and it was refilmed with "It's fairly easy to get it up, it's getting it to stay up that counts".
  • Despite all the double entendres when Sid and Bernie help Babs and Fanny set up their beds, the only parts cut was a line making an "erection" joke that the censors didn't approve of and the exchange "How about those two things sticking out in front?", "Get hold of them with both hands"; while the rest of the scene was re-edited to make it more obvious that nothing was happening.
  • Sally being attacked by an angry ram, Pansy, and Jim coming to her rescue.
  • Sally thanking Jim for saving her from the ram.
  • Peter leaving Jane's tent after they have it off was cut out by the censors.
  • Jim and Sally going off to cement their romantic future at the end of the film.
• DVD Commentary: With Carry On historian Robert Ross talking to Dilys Laye (Anthea Meeks) and Sandra Caron (Fanny).
• Edited for Syndication:
  • A 2011 airing cut the entire cinema sequence and Barbara Windsor's famous bra scene.
  • In December 2015, ITV3 showed an edited "daytime" version of this with all the nudist film nudity shots removed in the opening cinema scene. Their audience reactions were left intact.
• Enforced Method Acting: The famous bra flying scene when Babs and the girls are doing the exercises, caused some problems for Barbara Windsor. He bra was connected to a fishing line and an old stagehand was to pull it off at the given time, but he pulled her over in to the mud. When it was successfully done, she was determined to keep covered up at all costs, but then Kenneth Williams says "Oh, Matron - take them away", and so Miss Haggerd grabs her arm, uncovering her for all to see. The yell she lets out at this point is real.
• Fake Brit: The South African-born Sid James plays the British Sid Boggle.
• Hostility on the Set:
  • Trisha Noble proved unpopular onset due to her diva-like behaviour and constant lateness, which saw most of her scenes cut from the film, at the expense of Julian Holloway's screentime. In 1991, Barbara Windsor recalled that she "didn't join in with us and she wasn't fun".
  • Kenneth Williams didn't want to let Elizabeth Knight eat with the rest of the cast on one occasion, looking down on her for not being one of the Carry On regulars. Joan Sims was outraged at this, called him a "demonic little sod", and chose to leave him and sit with Knight instead.
  • Barbara Windsor went through a period of hostility with Peter Rogers due to his decision to shoot the film in such dreadful weather; At one point while trudging through the mud in the freezing cold, Windsor complained to Williams, calling Rogers all sorts of dreadful names, without realising he was still wearing his throat mic, which meant everything she said was being recorded. The next day, Rogers looked at the rushes and heard her slagging him off. He showed it to the cast the next day, causing Windsor to worry she would be sacked for what she had said. When Windsor found out that Rogers was only trying to wind her up, she was even more angry at him and said even worse things.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Harriet loved riding her tandem bicycle, but her actress (Betty Marsden) was terrified of riding during filming.
• Orphaned Reference: While it may seem the ram that Anthea lets loose to chase away Mrs. Fussey at the end of the film came out of nowhere, it was first in a Deleted Scene where it chased Sally in the showers and Jim came to her rescue.
• Prop Recycling: The blue cardigan worn by Sid James was first worn by George Lazenby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
• Real-Life Relative: Georgina Moon (Joy) was the daughter of George Moon (Scrawny Man).
• Referenced by...:
  • A Deleted Scene from the Red Dwarf episode "Me2" has Rimmer claim that Orson Welles was in this film.
  • Sharon from Birds of a Feather briefly mentions the film in "Young Guns".
  • In episode 2 of Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Adrian claims that Pandora's appearance on Newsnight was the most sexually arousing thing he had seen on television since Barbara Windsor lost her bra in this film.
  • Shooting Stars recreated the famous bra scene.
  • In The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Episode, "Merry Christmas", Jim hopes the film will be shown on TV.
  • The "worst advertising" theme in Screenwipe is the opening title theme of this film.
  • Mock the Week had this one-liner for the "Unlikely Things to Hear in a History Book" section:
    When Hitler first wrote Mein Kampf, he intended it to be a lighthearted family romp called Carry On Kampf-ing.
  • A quest in Final Fantasy XIV is called "Oh Matron".
  • In episode 4 of Come Fly With Me, Moses tells Barbara Windsor that he watched her bra flying off in "those Carry On films".
  • The novel When It's a Jar mentions a film called Carrion Camping from a popular low-budgeted film series called Carrion.
• Reference Overdosed: The most referenced Carry On movie ever.
• Saved from Development Hell: The idea for a camping themed film was conceived in 1962, but its spot was filled by Carry On Cruising. The title's registration was renewed after Don't Lose Your Head in 1966, although Talbot Rothwell's misunderstanding of what Peter Rogers wanted resulted in Follow That Camel going into production instead.
• Throw It In!: Barbara Windsor put on an Ah Pea accent to play a schoolgirl, but when her character in the shower room notices Sid's eye watching her, she shrieks her line of surprise in her normal accent. Gerald Thomas was adamant to keep it in and didn't do another take.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Peter Rogers wanted the films to be more international, so Talbot Rothwell had initially written Camping as a film about a caravan holiday (which would later be done in Carry On Behind). The script however was rejected and Follow That Camel took it's place instead. Camping was then intended to be the 15th film in the series, only for Carry On Doctor to steal its spot.
  • Rather than have Barbara Windsor lose her bra in her iconic role as Babs, early drafts of the script gave the infamous scene to a character called Rosemary.
  • Jim Dale was wanted for the role of Jim Tanner, but wasn't available, so it was given to Julian Holloway. The role was radically cut after Dale left and most of what was shot with Holloway was left on the cutting room floor due to Trisha Noble's unpopularity with the team.
  • Fenella Fielding was asked to return for the film, but she didn't like the script.
  • A roadside café scene en route to the camping site in which Dr. Soaper comes face to face with the café proprietor, Dan (who wasn't cast) was cut.
  • Stanfast Abbey was originally called Mucklast Abbey in the script.
  • Barbara Windsor intended to play Babs with a more refined voice.
  • The BBFC tried to remove Dr. Soaper telling Miss Haggerd that she won't find him stuffing her turkey, but left it in after it was pointed out that his line would be awkward to cut.

---