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Are you being served? Series 1-8 & The Movie

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Grace Brothers, a large department store in London operates in the 1970's on pre-war standards. Box set of series 1-5, series 6-8 and the movie.

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Are You Being Served? - Series 1-8 and The Movie

This quintessentially British sitcom is about Grace Brothers, a department store in London which is owned and kept traditional, almost pre-war (e.g. precise dress code for ladies frills and gentlemen's hats according to rank), by two brothers who look old enough to have fought in the Boer war but rarely appear, as most scenes play on one floor where Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold is the executive (meaning he enjoys an endless parade of foxy but stupid secretaries) in charge of management while his dignified floor walker, Captain Stephen Peacock, has daily charge over two small sales teams.

The fat and bossy, implicitly man-hungry widow Mrs. Betty Slocombe supervises the attractive Miss Shirley Brahms (with a terribly common Cockney accent) -with first choice of customers, on commission- the sale of women's clothes and accessories; the sales star at the gentleman's side is Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humpries, an implied closet-gay true gentleman, whose successive superiors are first obviously nearly retired Mr. Ernest Grainger and later formerly independent Mr. Grosman while the successive cheeky juniors are Mr. Dick Lucas and Mr. Bert Spooner. A regular visitor, and the only manual laborer but apparently best paid, is union representative Mr. Mash. Their interaction with each-other and the customers is quite formal in principle, but turns out comical in practice.

Source: IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068040/plotsummary

Are You Being Served? - The Movie

When Grace Brothers closes for redecoration, Young Mr. Grace send the staff on holiday to Costa Plonka, where they find themselves in the middle of a revolution.

Source: IMDb http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075696/plotsummary

This movie comes from our personal collection and only one piece is available
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See the list of episodes and other details under Additional information.

Additional information

Starring	Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith, Trevor Bannister, Arthur English, Harold Bennett, Arthur Brough
Disk format	Colour, PAL
Main soudtrack	English Mono
Subtitles	OFF, English for the Hard of Hearing (The series) None (The movie)
Region
Aspect ratio	4:3 (series 1-8) & 16:9 (the movie)
Number of discs	10 (8xDVD9 & 2xDVD5)
Classification	BBFC (the movie and series 1-2 & 4-7) (series 3 & 8)
DVD release date	17 Jul 2006 (box set - series 1-5) 28 Aug 2006 (series 6) 25 Aug 2008 (series 7) 07 Sep 2009 (series 8) 25 Sep 2006 (the movie)
Run time	1753 minutes (29 hours 13 mins)
EAN	5014138305314 (box set - series 1-5) 5014138303464 (series 6) 5051561027352 (series 7) 5014503262327 (series 8) 5060034576716 (the movie)

Episodes

Season 1

00 Pilot episode (in black & white)
01 Dear Sexy Knickers
02 Our Figures Are Slipping
03 Camping In
04 His and Hers
05 Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend

Season 2

06 The Clock
07 Cold Comfort
08 The Think Tank
09 Big Brother
10 Hoorah for the Holidays

Season 3

11 The Hand of Fate
12 Coffee Morning
13 Up Captain Peacock
14 Cold Store
15 Wedding Bells
16 German Week
17 Shoulder to Shoulder
18 New Look
19 Christmas Crackers

Season 4

20 No Sale
21 Top Hat and Tails
22 Forward Mr. Grainger
23 Fire Practice
24 Fifty Years On
25 Oh What a Tangled Web
26 The Father Christmas Affair

Season 5

27 Mrs. Slocombe Expects
28 A Change Is as Good as a Rest
29 Founder's Day
30 The Old Order Changes
31 Take-Over
32 Goodbye Mr. Grainger
33 It Pays to Advertise

Special feature: Funny Women - Mollie Sugden

Season 6

34 By Appointment
35 The Club
36 Do You Take This Man?
37 Shedding the Load
38 A Bliss Girl
39 Happy Returns

Season 7

40 The Junior
41 Strong Stuff, This Insurance
42 The Apartment
43 Mrs. Slocombe, Senior Person
44 The Hero
45 Anything You Can Do
46 The Agent
47 The Punch and Judy Affair

Season 8

48 Is It Catching?
49 A Personal Problem
50 Front Page Story
51 Sit Out
52 Heir Apparent
53 Closed Circuit
54 The Erotic Dreams of Mrs. Slocombe
55 Roots?

The Movie

Are you Being Served? The Movie