Post by Cynthia on Jan 4, 2010 10:29:05 GMT 1
Are you being served?
The American Boxset!
Are you being served? First aired in 1972 on the UK television. It took two years before it got aired on the Dutch television. It ran for 10 seasons. All are released in a big DVD boxset...in the States! Here in the Netherlands, they have only released some seasons (I believe 6 of them) without much extras.
Plot summary: 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 gentleman'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.
The American Boxset!
Are you being served? First aired in 1972 on the UK television. It took two years before it got aired on the Dutch television. It ran for 10 seasons. All are released in a big DVD boxset...in the States! Here in the Netherlands, they have only released some seasons (I believe 6 of them) without much extras.
Plot summary: 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 gentleman'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.
- Mollie Sugden - Mrs. Betty Slocombe (69 episodes, 1972-1985)
- John Inman - Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries (69 episodes, 1972-1985)
- Frank Thornton - Captain Stephen Peacock (69 episodes, 1972-1985)
- Wendy Richard - Miss Shirley Brahms (69 episodes, 1972-1985)
- Nicholas Smith - Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold (69 episodes, 1972-1985)
- Trevor Bannister - Mr. Dick Lucas (48 episodes, 1972-1979)
- Arthur English - Mr. Beverley Harman (48 episodes, 1976-1985)
- Harold Bennett - Young Mr. Grace (46 episodes, 1972-1981)
- Arthur Brough - Mr. Ernest Grainger (34 episodes, 1972-1977)