Character mistake: At the hospital, Mr Bigger's surname is misspelt as "Biggir" on the name tag on his bed.
Carry On Doctor (1967)
1 character mistake
Directed by: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Charles Hawtrey, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Sidney James
Genres: Comedy
Continuity mistake: When Mr Roper is asking the nurse if he can have a fag, he is told to take his medicine, so he takes it. But in the next shot, when the nurse has gone and he is holding a newspaper, the medicine has disappeared.
Dr James Kilmore: Just as I thought. You fell on your coccyx.
Francis Bigger: I did not. I fell on my back.
Dr James Kilmore: Your coccyx is at the base of the spine.
Francis Bigger: Well I've never heard it called that before.
Trivia: This film contains a reference to "Carry On Nurse" (1959), specifically the daffodil thermometer scene. When a nurse approaches Frankie Howerd with a daffodil, he says "Oh no you don't! I saw that film!"
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