Carry On at Your Convenience

In the scene on the motor-bike, actor Bernard Bresslaw took fourteen takes to get the scene correct. It has also been reported that the scene took over twenty takes to do. Apparently, actor Bernard Bresslaw had allegedly told producer Peter Rogers that he could ride a motor-cycle, which apparently he couldn't, arguably this being a typical actor's ruse to get an acting job.

Director Gerald Thomas wrote to actor Terry Scott about the cutting of his entire performance in the film by writing in a personal note to him: "...this is in no way any reflection on you or your performance but the film finished fifty minutes over length and we felt rather than cut your sequence down so that you were only on the screen for a flash it would be kinder to remove the entire scene as really it had no effect one way or the other on the story, such as it is".

A whole scene with Terry Scott was deleted from the final print, although he was paid £500 for the day's shoot. The footage has long been destroyed and only stills remain. Scott played a union boss called Mr Allcock.

The first "Carry On" film to lose money at the box office and only broke even in 1976 after television deals and distribution rights had been sold. Its failure at the box office was largely down to the fact it was clearly an anti-union film. This was a curious miscalculation by the makers, as they knew most of their audience were working class people who would have largely been union supporters/members.

The car that Sid Plummer (Sidney James) buys himself after he starts winning on the horses to replace his decrepit looking Ford 100E, is a 1971 Morris Marina 1.3 Deluxe Coupe in Bedouin, which is especially notable by the fact that the Marina was a brand new model in 1971 and the car in the film was one of the very first.