A fifth and a sixth film, Confessions of a Plumber's Mate and Confessions of a Private Soldier, had been planned in 1977. Filming was set to begin on Plumber's Mate at the end of February 1978. Robin Askwith even expressed a desire to direct Private Soldier, but neither film materialised (the former became Adventures of a Plumber's Mate). In November 1977 the studio cancelled plans for future films. Columbia Pictures president David Begelman, who had been very supportive of the British film industry and who had green-lit the first film, had been implicated in a cheque-forging scandal and either quit or was fired. His successor had no interest in financing low-budget, profitable British films. Eventually, the beauty contest gets underway, compered by host Roughage (Colin Crompton), but the whole event is ruined before it starts by young Kevin (Nicholas Owen), who starts a massive cake fight. The tone is set by the opening shots of a rain-swept Havant railway station, and the main narrative unfolds in a grey Hayling Island.

Adopting the title Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse, the film was produced by experienced filmmakers Davina Belling and Clive Parsons, who spent over a year auditioning young hopefuls to take the leading role. Inspired by primetime medical soap Dr Kildare, starry-eyed 18-year-old virgin Rosie Dixon (Ash) decides to become a nurse and enrols at nearby St Adelaide’s Hospital. The harsh reality of life on the wards is somewhat different from television, however, since the nurses are dominated by a tough, unfeeling Scottish Matron (Beryl Reid – wonderful as usual). Every opportunity for smutty innuendo is seized in this hospital comedy as Debbie Ash suffers countless indignities in the title role. Fake Scot: The Scottish Mr. Truscott from Driving Instructor was played by the Welsh Windsor Davies. Irish director Norman Cohen, who handled three of the quartet (Val Guest made the original Confessions of a Window Cleaner), also made the movie versions of Till Death Us Do Part and Dad’s Army.The Confessions films relied on a blend of saucy humour and ‘What the Butler Saw’-style smut (much loved by the Carry On team). More sexual shenanigans in the shower room at the local tennis club, and a bungled attempt to switch a fake Picasso at an indoor swimming party, leave Sid with only one alternative. To emigrate.

Linda Hayden played Timmy's fiancée in Confessions of a Window Cleaner and French co-worker, Brigitte in Confessions from a Holiday Camp, while Marianne Stone played a woman in the cinema in the former and a waitress in the latter. Filmed in the autumn of 1977, the movie was based on a novel by Christopher Wood – Confessions of a Night Nurse, published in 1974. Wood followed the character of naive suburban teenager Rosie over nine books between 1974 and 1977, casting her as an escort, a babysitter, riding mistress, barmaid and so on. Long Weekend (1978) Two middle-class Australians - Peter (John Hargreaves) and his wife Marcia (Briony Behets) - drive out of the city for… Sid’s boss, old Crapper (Stephen Lewis), sends him to change a toilet seat for the kinky Janice and, after more sexual skirmishes, our likely lad sells the seat to an antique dealer for 50 pence.

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Are you intimidated?” asks the ferocious Matron. “I don’t think so, but I’ve had a flu jab!” Rosie replies. Upon it’s release North America in 1978 the film was entitled Confessions of a Summer Camp Counsellor. This was the fourth and last of these cheap but cheerful comedies, with Robin Askwith returning as an over-sexed entertainment officer at a camp run by an ex-prison officer.

But they’re not long for the sweet life. The camp has been sold, and the new owner, William Whitemonk (John Junkin), is determined to run the place in his fashion – a fashion he practised for years as Chief Warder of Dartfleet Prison. Unfortunately for Timmy, Dad and Mum are in a ghostly mood too, and they have a very unusual (and unclothed) coming together . . . The Other Darrin: Doris Hare took over the role of Mrs. Lea from Dandy Nichols after the first film. When production of Confessions of a Plumber’s Mate was cancelled, Rosie Dixon unknowingly marked Columbia Pictures’ last foray into British sex comedy. Prior to Pop Performer, a sequel called Confessions from the Clink was considered but never got further than production notes.

Silent Partner, The (1978) This Canadian remake of a Danish film called Think of a Number (Tænk på et tal) has timid bachelor bank… In August 1977 Belling told Screen International; “I’ve seen a lot of 18-year-old scrubbers in the last 18 months, but when we found Debbie Ash we knew she was right!”. Edited for Syndication: When aired on Talking Pictures in 2023, Holiday Camp saw many racist jokes cut as the channel was already on thin ice for racial content.