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.
Product description
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.
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.
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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?