Carry on Camping

Sid Boggle (Sid James) and his friend Bernie Lugg (Bernard Bresslaw) are partners in a plumbing business. They take their girlfriends, the prudish Joan Fussey (Joan Sims) and meek Anthea Meeks (Dilys Laye), to the cinema to see the film Paradise about a nudist camp. The film showed pictures of men and women roaming around naked in the camp, playing badminton, riding bikes, exercising, having food and so on. Joan and Anthea feel sick, even though Sid calls the whole thing "artistic". Sid has the idea of the foursome holidaying there, reasoning that in the environment their heretofore chaste girlfriends will relax their strict moral standards. Sid easily gains Bernie's co-operation in the scheme, which they bravely attempt to keep secret from the girls. The guys decide simply not to tell the girls that they are going to a nudist camp. Meanwhile Joan and Anthea are 33, and Joan's mother is worried that she needs to marry and settle down soon. Joan says that she is only playing hard to get. Sid and Bernie visit a camping good store to book a nudist camping site slot but are shy as the person at the counter is a woman. So, they find the brochure for Paradise campsite and decide to head there directly. They travel to the campsite named Paradise. After paying the fees to the owner, money-grabbing (1 pound per person to be a member, 1 pound per tent booking fee, 1 pound per person per week rent) farmer Josh Fiddler (Peter Butterworth), Sid realizes it is not the camp of the film but a standard family campsite. Furthermore, it's not a paradise but a damp field with the only facilities being a basic ablutions block. They reluctantly agree to stay after Fiddler refuses a refund and the girls approve of the place. There is further disappointment when the girls won't share a tent with the boys. Sid and Bernie soon set their sights on a bunch of young ladies on holiday from the Chayste Place finishing school for young ladies. The ringleader of the girls is blonde and bouncy Babs (Barbara Windsor). In charge of the girls is Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams) the principal of the finishing school, who is fervently pursued by his lovelorn colleague, the school's matron, Miss Haggard (Hattie Jacques). Haggard was not in favor of the camping trip as she felt that the girls are far too refined to be exposed to the external world like this. In reality the girls are a rambunctious lot. Haggard and Soaper believe that the girls have not been exposed to boys yet, and the girls are in full make-out sessions with the boys just outside their finishing school. Jim Tanner (Julian Holloway) is the driver who drove the girls to the camp and decided to stay there for the duration. Before arriving at the camp site, the group had spent the night at a motel, where Babs played a series of pranks on Soaper. Babs and her friend Fanny (Sandra Caron) change the room numbers on Dr. Soaper's and Miss Haggard's doors and convince Dr. Soaper that the female washroom, where Miss Haggard is, is the male washroom. Later, Babs changes Haggard's room number from 19 to 16, which is Soaper's room number, which makes Soaper get into the bed with Haggard and is caught by the girls. The party arrives at the campsite the next day, where Sid and Bernie are only too happy to assist the girls in setting up their tents. The following morning, Dr Soaper leads an outdoor aerobics session, during which Babs' bikini top flies off and Sid catches it. Joan catches Sid and Bernie trying to get a peek at a naked Babs in the shower through a peer hole. Joan and Anthea can see that the guys are sexually frustrated. Other campers are Peter Potter (Terry Scott), who hates camping but must endure a jolly yet domineering wife Harriet (Betty Marsden), who has a hideous braying cackle. Peter is sexually frustrated and even before coming to camp he made several attempts to have sex with Harriet, including bringing pornographic magazines home in a bid to get her excited. Harriet is passionate about camping and was not thinking about anything else. Peter wanted to go a 4-star hotel, but Harriet nixed the idea of sleeping in strange beds and using toilets that others had used previously. Harriet uses a two-person tandem cycle to travel to the campsite, along with Peter. On the way Peter and Harriet have a picnic, but Peter is attacked by a bull on account of his red color bib. Naive first-time camper Charlie Muggins (Charles Hawtrey) completes the mismatched trio. Charlie pitches his tent in the middle of a weapons testing range. Charlie loses his tent in the firing and has to find a place to stay. He finds Peter and Harriet in a nearby field and ends up staying with them for the night. Peter is reluctant, but Harriet happily invites Charlie to share the tent with them. Peter is angry, but ends up giving his cot to Charlie, so that he gets to sleep next to Harriet. The snores drive Peter mad. The next morning Peter and Harriet leave without Charlie and reach Fiddler's camp. But Charlie manages to get there on the bus with the girls. Charlie again shares tent with Peter and Harriet. One of the girls takes Peter to her tent, when he is depressed & drinking alone. He comes back all charged up, kicks Charlie out of his tent and takes Harriet by force. Chaos ensues when a group of hippies arrive in the next field for a noisy all-night rave - a live concert by band "The Flowerbuds". The campers club together and successfully drive the ravers away, but all the girls leave with them. However, there is a happy ending for Bernie and Sid when their girlfriends finally agree to sleep with them. Their joy is short-lived when Joan's mother turns up but Anthea lets a goat loose which chases Mrs Fussey away. Meanwhile, Peter vows to Harriet that this camping holiday will most definitely be their last.