Editing Joan Sims (section)

===Later work===
After the ''Carry On'' series ended in 1978, Sims continued to work on television. She appeared opposite [[Katharine Hepburn]] and [[Laurence Olivier]] in the award-winning 1975 television film ''[[Love Among the Ruins (film)|Love Among the Ruins]]'' and had a recurring role as Gran in the BBC comedy series ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'' (though she was only in her late thirties when she assumed the role).

From 1979 to 1980, she played the recurring character Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton in ''[[Worzel Gummidge (TV series)|Worzel Gummidge]]'' for [[Southern Television]]. During 1986 and 1987, Sims starred as Annie Begley alongside [[Angela Thorne]] in the [[Yorkshire Television]] sitcom ''[[Farrington of the F.O.]]'' Also in 1986, Sims appeared in the long-running [[BBC]] science fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in the four episodes of ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]: [[The Mysterious Planet]]'' as Katryca. She also played Miss Murgatroyd in the ''[[Miss Marple]]'' adaptation ''A Murder is Announced'' (1985).

In 1989, she appeared as a [[spirit medium|medium]] in the video for [[Morrissey]]'s "[[Ouija Board, Ouija Board]]".

She played Mrs Wembley in the BBC comedy series ''[[On the Up]]'', which starred [[Dennis Waterman]] and ran from 1990 to 1992. From 1994, she played Madge Hardcastle, drum-playing wife to Rocky Hardcastle played by [[Frank Middlemass]], and stepmother of [[Geoffrey Palmer (actor)|Geoffrey Palmer]]'s character Lionel in ''[[As Time Goes By (TV series)|As Time Goes By]]''. She also played Betsey Prig in a star-studded adaptation of Dickens' ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit (1994 TV series)|Martin Chuzzlewit]]'' (1994) and Lady Fox-Custard in ''[[Simon and the Witch]]''.