At one point Kenneth Williams asks "Oh, what's the bloody point?" of his fellow actors. That was the last line Williams wrote in his diary before he died from an overdose of barbiturates.
Based on Terry Johnston's play "Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick", performed in the Royal National Theatre in London, UK. Many members of the original cast - including the three leads Samantha Spiro, Geoffrey Hutchings and Adam Godley - reprised their original stage roles for this adaptation.
Joan Sims, Jack Douglas and Liz Fraser were among the Carry On stars who criticised this film, and the National Theatre play it was based on, for falsely portraying Sidney James as drunken and lecherous. Barbara Windsor, however, gave the project her approval and plays herself in the final scene.