This instalment tackles dating, romance and love (with plenty of the trademark smut and double entendres) as Sid and Hattie star as Sid Bliss and Sophie Plummett who run a computerised dating agency (although it’s actually Sophie who pairs up the different suitors). Cue lots of wildly different candidates and wildly different experiences.

There’s so much comic potential with such a premise and such an array of varied characters and Carry On Loving fully realised this. If anything, I kept thinking that I hadn’t heard of Loving enough as it was so funny. It feels like a hidden gem within the whole filmography of Carry On movies.

I also love it when Sid and Hattie are cast as a couple within a film and this brought back memories of Carry On Cabby.

You can also notice that the films are becoming ruder and more risqué with the permissive society of the day making a mark within the films. Would Jacques have made the, ahem, ‘walnut’ remark in a much earlier film.

Hats off also to Williams (Percival Snooper- great character name) and Bernard Bresslaw as wrestler Gripper Burke. Both are hilarious.

Underrated and worthy of more attention, Loving is a riot.

4 out of 5 stars