Dr Kilmore is a popular doctor who ends up getting the sack when he is spotted on the roof spying on Nurse May (this wasn't his intention he believed that she was going to jump from the roof and was only trying to help her). Refusing to believe that a nice doctor like Doctor Kilmore is capable of doing what he is accused of the patients all rally round in an effort to overthrow Dr Tinkle and the matron whom were responsible for Dr Kilmore's sacking whilst simultaneously getting Dr Kilmore re-instated again...
Carry on doctor had some narrative similarities with Carry on teacher; in both films we have groups of people rallying together in order not to lose somebody who is deemed to be popular. This is by no means a bad thing as I loved the script to Carry on teacher and was kind of glad that a similar approach was adopted in a later film.
Although every plot summary confirms that the story involves Dr Kilmore's sacking and the patients rallying to get him re-instated at the hospital it is quite a long time into the film before this plot element actually kicks in. Prior to this, the focus is mainly on the patients and their various shenanigans (most of the time they are feigning illness for varying reasons). For this reason, Carry On Doctor is one of the weaker offerings when it comes to its story, but on the other hand there are still plenty of amusing situations (the scene where Mr Roper's wife turns up and she just rambles on at him whilst he's listening to music on his headphones was very funny). Then when she leaves she says "I've barely had time to tell you anything."
The cast are all on great form and it just goes to show that even with the absence of a story for much of its run time they can still put on a good show and provide us with plenty of laughs. As I've said Carry on doctor is not the wittiest script in the carry on franchise and it doesn't really contain many memorable lines, but at the end of the day it still delivers the good by providing many a funny moment.
Not the best of the franchise, but there's still plenty to like here.
Carry on doctor had some narrative similarities with Carry on teacher; in both films we have groups of people rallying together in order not to lose somebody who is deemed to be popular. This is by no means a bad thing as I loved the script to Carry on teacher and was kind of glad that a similar approach was adopted in a later film.
Although every plot summary confirms that the story involves Dr Kilmore's sacking and the patients rallying to get him re-instated at the hospital it is quite a long time into the film before this plot element actually kicks in. Prior to this, the focus is mainly on the patients and their various shenanigans (most of the time they are feigning illness for varying reasons). For this reason, Carry On Doctor is one of the weaker offerings when it comes to its story, but on the other hand there are still plenty of amusing situations (the scene where Mr Roper's wife turns up and she just rambles on at him whilst he's listening to music on his headphones was very funny). Then when she leaves she says "I've barely had time to tell you anything."
The cast are all on great form and it just goes to show that even with the absence of a story for much of its run time they can still put on a good show and provide us with plenty of laughs. As I've said Carry on doctor is not the wittiest script in the carry on franchise and it doesn't really contain many memorable lines, but at the end of the day it still delivers the good by providing many a funny moment.
Not the best of the franchise, but there's still plenty to like here.