Season 2 • Episode 26
LatestA group of very different people pool together their funds and buy a house large enough to accommodate them all. Characters include librarian Georgina Ruddy, council official Simon Willow, unemployable Daisy Burke, Yorkshire sea dog Captain Illiffe and his French singing wife, newlywed Hattons and law student Gordon Brent.
Acting
Carry On legends Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey serving domestic absurdity.
Writing
Sharp class comedy from 1960s kitchen-sink tradition.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures Britain's 1960s housing crisis and cooperative living experiments — sitcom as social history.
Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey appeared in 14 Carry On films together; this was their rare non-film collaboration.
Bernard Bresslaw's towering physical comedy often overshadowed his underutilized dramatic range in series like this.
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