Episodes

  • Carry On Camping (1969)
    Aug 25 2024

    And so our Carry On journey comes to an end with Carry On Camping, arguably the most iconic offering of the entire franchise.

    Hattie Jacques is back, which means our first; "Oooh Maaaatron". The rest of the regular cast is also in attendance for an innuendo-laden laugh fest. Expect Sid James staring at arses, Barbara Windsor's top flying off, and some good old-fashioned hippy bashing.

    This is Guy's pick to round us off and although we've only managed a mere 3 of 31, Carry On BritCom Goes to the Movies has seen the perfect cross-section of the collection. Go out and watch some more, we'll see you in the autumn for series 3 of BritCom Goes to the Movies!

    Carry On Camping trailer

    https://youtu.be/LDTQW3ztgNc?si=_TUFc4ti2AGBrTmS

    Carry On Camping tent scene

    https://youtu.be/CGUj9OcO0xM?si=70WdhFwJsP7yFwRu

    Shooting Stars - Carry On Camping

    https://youtu.be/6ydD2hizE6g?si=x6QQO253NxPPbODJ

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Carry On Screaming (1966)
    Aug 24 2024

    There is no let-off this bank holiday as we hit you with another Carry On straight away.

    This time it's Rob's pick. Critic and hipster's choice, Carry On Screaming. It's a Hammer Horror Homage but without the scariest cast member Sid James, replaced to great effect by Harry H Corbett.

    There's low budget scares, laughs, and uncredited session musician's theme tunes galore.

    Will Rob still rate Screaming as his favourite on second viewing and will Guy enjoy only his second ever Carry On? Join us to find out.

    Carry On Screaming - Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwVGuxvhou8&t=29s

    Carry On Screaming - Blow on your whistle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9BlgkvENgY&t=69s

    Carry On Screaming - Best scenes

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60y0vYxf7PA&t=453s

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    58 mins
  • Carry On Abroad (w/ Andy Clarke)
    Aug 23 2024

    While we wait for series three in the autumn, here's a bank holiday treat of a mini-series. What better way to spend a bank holiday weekend than with British comedy institution Carry On?

    Over the next three days, Rob and Guy scratch the surface of the comedy behemoth, choosing one film from the massive back catalogue each.

    We start our series of three with a choice from our guest. TV's Andy Clarke. Writer, presenter and Carry On fanatic. Who better to make our first pick and provide some expert analysis? (particularly for Guy, who'd inexplicably never before seen a Carry On)

    Andy kicks us off with Carry On Abroad. Widely regarded by fans and critics as the last good Carry On Film and certainly the final one with the bulk of the core cast. James, Williams, Connor, Windsor, Whitfield, Sims and Hawtry make their way to the beautiful resort of El's Bells in "the Med". In lieu of budget though, Pinewood studios must double for an exotic resort.

    Join the three of us for sun, sea and Splendid Kenneth Williams impressions as we Carry On Abroad.

    Carry On Abroad Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTg_Gn63EMs

    Carry On Abroad - Tried it once

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXtFQdvcp4o

    Carry On Abroad - Slide Whistle Supercut

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufbrSC36FGQ

    Julian Clary - Fisting Norman Lamont

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAU7pATH5_M

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • S02 E10 - Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004)
    Jun 18 2024

    It feels like only yesterday we were getting stuck into some Porridge and now Series 2 of BritCom Goes to the Movies, draws to a close with 2004’s Churchill: The Hollywood Years. A movie that was met with a lukewarm critical reception and a limited release, leaving it with a somewhat tarnished at worst, and forgettable at best legacy.

    ...but is any of that fair? Both Rob and Guy remembered loving it. The film had the cream of TV comedy talent of the time and all masterminded by Mr. Comic Strip Presents Peter Richardson, with a blueprint similar to one of his best episodes, The Strike. Is it really as bad as all that? There’s a deep dive into The Comic Strip from its early days as a cabaret show, to a mockumentary directed by Julian Temple, to the opening night of Channel 4. This show gave the world Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, French and Saunders, Robbie Coltraine, Keith Allen, Alexi Sayle, Phil Cornwell...the list goes on! There’s the small matter of crowning the series quiz champion, with Rob needing an absolute miracle to defend his title. What a series it’s been, with two new number ones, could we have a third? The Comic Strip Presents – Julian Temple Doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-4QTIyWmXA Channel 4 – First Broadcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03c9vit5G4w Comic Strip Presents – Five Go Mad in Dorset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_KfQ0pD2gw Comic Strip presents – The Strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beyNSIUEIxk Four Men in a Car – Sounds of the 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1Igdckll0 Churchill: The Hollywood Years – Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYB7aSWSyOI Churchill: The Hollywood Years – Full Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fouJZyxFCSU

    Leslie Phillips - I Must Resist Temptation (from Crooks Anonymous) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOuvUt3VZaI

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • S02 E09 - The Mouse That Roared (w/ Tyler Adams)
    Jun 12 2024

    Our second Goon-related podcast of the series, so who better to join Rob and Guy to talk about all things Peter Sellers, A Show Called Fred, and The Mouse That Roared, than host of The Goon Pod, Tyler Adams? There was expert insight galore as BritCom Goes to the Movies tackled its earliest film yet.

    An early high-concept outing for Sellers’ many faces and voices on the big screen as he channeled his inner Alec Guinness to play three of the main characters in this Anglo-American cult classic (not the first one of those we’ve profiled in this series either).

    There are many unexpected mentions of The Simpsons, Alan Partridge and The Fast Show, proving just how long a shadow Peter Sellers has cast on the comedy world for decades.

    Guy had a huge lead over Rob in the quiz coming into this episode, with only one more to go, Rob would need to buck up his ideas…and quickly!

    A Show Called Fred – 1956

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbWbz1Z0q3M

    The Mouse That Roared – Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7L7WLFBYR4

    The Mouse That Roared – Full Movie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfD_LTad1hE

    Coldland - Shooting Stars

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYgXl5AxQA

    Passport To Pimlico - Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=634VTm9y1Eo

    Theatre of Blood - Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94e43JIgHc

    Holmes & Yo-Yo - Opening

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeJd7j-Rhtg

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • S02 E08 - Steptoe & Son (1972)
    Jun 4 2024

    With Old Ned still ringing in their ears, Rob and Guy sat down to record episode 8: Steptoe and Son. An enduring sitcom with a huge legacy, written by a couple of comedy pioneers…but let’s not forget this is a movie spin-off from the 70s, by which all low bars apparently, should be judged.

    Surely that can’t be the case for a pair of characters still held in such high esteem even now, situations as timeless as the day is long and a budget to be envious of….well, let’s not give anything away. The classic traps of lack of TV network reigning in are a jaunt abroad and a hurried script.

    All this plus some chat about Mr Acker Bilk and his impressive record, a public toilet in Shepherd’s Bush, class warfare by sporting preference, and a chance for Rob to get back in the running for the series quiz title. Join Britcom Goes to the Movies for Steptoe & Son!

    Steptoe and Son Theme

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRaiiT3ZnJw

    Steptoe and Son – 65 Today

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85DfL-hyu_8

    Steptoe and Son – Any Old Iron

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDsJHAdi1Ws

    Harry H Corbett – The Old Junk Shop

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W50waA8lCBU

    Wilfred Bramble – Ragtime Rag n Bone Man

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2B0geglzE

    The Curse of Steptoe

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11VCYx2-mqY

    When Steptoe met son

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=G4Nksn4MAl4

    Mr Acker Bilk – Stranger on the shore

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTl-iAF6KsE

    Steptoe and Son The Movie Trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnwnPj9S4SY

    Steptoe and Son The Movie – Kitchen Sink

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgX1cPfethA

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • S02 E07 - Shaun of the Dead (w/ Ross Birks)
    May 28 2024

    Anger, Pain, Fear, Aggression….Watercolours and laughs! As we know from our special on Britain’s Best Sitcom, Spaced is in both Guy and Rob’s top 5, so neither could contain their excitement when it came to talking about Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright’s seminal turn of the century pop-culture-reference-a-thon.

    Skip to the end….but there’s more. Joining our very own Tim and Daisy was filmmaker Ross Birks, fresh from stealing a tank and trying to invade Paris, to lend his two penn’orth. We could have done a whole two hours on that, but of course, this is a movie podcast so what better than the film inspired by a short segment in an episode of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead?

    The movie that spawned the genre Zom Rom Com was 20 years old at the time of recording and all three of our panelists made no secret of their love, quotability, and rewatchabilty of one of the most influential films of the 00s… despite itself making so many references to all three of the genres it drew from.

    After a truly terrible showing in last week’s quiz, who would break the deadlock this week with Ross’ fiendishly difficult questions?

    So let’s take the car. Go to Mum's. Kill Phil, grab Liz, go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, listen to Britcom Goes To the Movies, and wait for all of this to blow over.

    Simon Pegg and Jessica Stephenson in Six Pairs of Pants

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-ZkItmbFiQ

    Edgar Wright directed Asylum

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhzHQfSkg0w

    Mash & Peas – John Littlerichard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaGF5z4hyzY

    Spaced – One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoU_GG38Tc

    Spaced – Clubbing Scene

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_wVOA_95QU

    Spaced – The Matrix

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kLk9gfK_w

    Comic Relief Blankety Blank

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUC4un_G5AA

    Big Train – Billie Piper fanclub

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_3oU-Z4Vxo

    Shaun of the Dead trailer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIfcaZ4pC-4

    Shaun of the Dead record throwing

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHAOY7C1go

    Shaun of the Dead – Prink

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cJvDtF1ios

    Edgar Wright’s Don’t

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czR4qJbkSuc

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • S02 E06 - The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
    May 21 2024

    Over halfway through series two of Britcom Goes to the Movies we’re back to the 1960s....and the 50s as we look at Spike Milliagn, the Goon Show, and the Post-Apocalyptic surreal comedy The Bed Sitting Room. This is the first of our episodes in which we look at a radio show as our source material (if you don’t include Hancock’s Half Hour for The Rebel in series one).

    This film contains two of the three (or is it four) Goons as well as a plethora of British comedy talent of the time. Many of whom we’ve seen appear in previous episodes, including Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Frank Thornton, and of course Arthur Lowe, who is the Britcom Goes to the Movies record appearance maker so far. In a series and a half, Rob and Guy have been fairly united on their approval or disapproval of a film, but this time there is some serious disagreement. What will this mean for the rankings and could the non-believer yet be brought round to reform his opinion? All the while, the quiz scores are delicately poised with Rob having a one-point lead. Join us for episode six. The Goon Show – The Dreaded Battered Pudding Hurler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2Vg2S3S8W0 The Goon Show – The Treasure of Loch Lomond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsGwAJtZKEc

    Tin Sandwich Anyone? The History of the Harmonica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clsGakOc8AE

    Roy Kinnear on Give Us A Clue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUvPSJfyn0

    The Bed Sitting Room – Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVZcY53nVU The Bed Sitting Room – Inside Leg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu-TjD7s-UY

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    1 hr and 41 mins