In this third seasonal helping of festive Carry On fun, set at an eighteenth-century banquet, the team's sketches include a pantomime performance of Aladdin, a rip-roaring Elizabethan sing-song, and biblical goings-on in the Garden of Eden.
Hattie Jacques
/ Fiona Clodhopper / Miss Harriet / Miss Molly Coddles / Fairy Godmother Joan Sims
/ Lady Rhoda Cockhorse / Miss Esmerelda / Princess Yo-Yo / Clodhopper's Mother-in-Law Barbara Windsor
/ Milk Maiden / Eve / Maid / Miss Clodhopper / Aladdin Kenneth Connor
/ Club Chairman / Lt. Bangham / Insp. Knocker / General Clodhopper / Hanky Poo Peter Butterworth
/ Captain Alistair Dripping / Sir Francis Fiddler / Admiral Rene/ Widow Holeinone Norman Rossington
/ Valet / Tardy Diner / Genie of the Lamp Jack Douglas
/ Mr. Firkin / Adam / Ringworm the Butler / Charles Burke / Demon King Brian Oulton
/ Oriental Orator Valerie Leon
/ Serving Wench Billy Cornelius
/ Waiter
Alf is spending Christmas in hospital for a hip replacement but his visitors' scare stories of what could go wrong propel him into fleeing from the ward dressed as a woman - which incurs a drunk's unwanted attention. Back at the house he is outraged when Mrs Hollingbery's sister turns up after his room, being told that he is not expected to live, but all is forgiven when Mrs Hollingbery invites everybody upstairs for a Christmas party. Unfortunately he has forgotten the loose stair rod and ends up back in the hospital.
Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent girlfriend Babette, holds the hopes for his recovery and promises that she'll marry him if he'll reform. However, Forsdyke loses control when he's locked in a department store over Christmas.
This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.
