The film's composer Eric Rogers makes his second on-screen appearance as the trumpet player during the hospital dance sequence. A completed script had been written by George Layton [15] and Jonathan Lynn in 1977, but the attempt was cancelled due to the financial loss of Carry On Emmannuelle.

OK, Carry On Columbus is crap, but rather sad that the only way most are going to get to watch a physical copy is through the dubious copy below, again taken from the very same VHS master. The most impressive of these was Carry On Cleo (1964), in which the budget-conscious production team made full use of some impressive sets that had been created in 1960 for the Burton and Taylor epic Cleopatra (1963) but abandoned when production moved to Rome. In 1969, the UK television channel ITV televised a Christmas special recorded by Thames Television; entitled Carry On Christmas, it was watched by over eight million viewers.

Jack was the first film of the series to be period based and had the working title of "Carry On Mate". Stars: Sid James, Barbara Windsor, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw, Terry Scott, Peter Butterworth, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Connor, Wendy Richard, Joan Sims, Valerie Leon and more. The Carry Ons comprise the largest number of films of any British series and, next to the James Bond films, are the second-longest continually-running UK film series (with a fourteen-year hiatus between 1978 and 1992). I remember seeing Carry on Columbus on Talking Pictures on Freeview a couple of weeks ago looked dreadful. Episodes Comprise: Carry On Sergeant Carry On Nurse Carry On Teacher Carry On Constable Carry On Regardless Carry On Cruising Carry On Cabby Carry On Jack Carry On Spying Carry On Cleo .

Harry Enfield's mockumentary Norbert Smith: A Life (1989) includes a clip from an imagined film, Carry On Banging (a parody of the more risque approach of the later films, such as Carry On Dick and Carry On Emmannuelle).

During the production of the series, the rights passed between a couple of companies ( Carry On Emmanuelle was made by Hemdale! The titles are: 'Carry On Sergeant' (1958), 'Carry On Nurse' (1959), 'Carry On Teacher' (1959), 'Carry On Constable' (1960), 'Carry On Regardless' (1961), 'Carry On Cruising' (1962), 'Carry On Cabby' (1963), 'Carry On Jack' (1963), 'Carry On Spying' (1964), 'Carry On Cleo' (1964), 'Carry On Cowboy' (1965), 'Carry On Screaming! Regardless of people's personal views of 'Carry On Columbus' it is an official entry into the 'Carry On' series and therefore should have been included for completeness. Cohen disliked the Carry On series intensely, forcing Peter Rogers to strike a deal with Rank Organisation instead.