Episodes (6)

Pilot
S01E01 · Pilot

Sep 08, 1972

The Grace Brothers Department Store has numerous funny follies and disputes over the men's department having to now share the floor with the women's department.

Dear Sexy Knickers...
S01E02 · Dear Sexy Knickers...

Mar 21, 1973

Mr. Lucas writes a love note to pretty junior assistant Miss Brahms, but when his words fall into the hands of older senior saleslady Mrs. Slocombe, chaos ensues.

Our Figures Are Slipping
S01E03 · Our Figures Are Slipping

Mar 28, 1973

Sales figures for the department are lower than expected so Mr. Rumbold has instructed the staff on new sales techniques. Besides viewing the store as a ship or a battlefield, Mr. Rumbold feels that the staff, particularly Mr. Lucas, should smile more in an effort to charm the customers.

Camping In
S01E04 · Camping In

Apr 04, 1973

Transport strikes leave the staff of Grace Brothers trapped overnight in the store. What at first seems to be a nightmare soon proves to be a chance for everyone to share in each other's companionship.

His and Her's
S01E05 · His and Her's

Apr 11, 1973

Grace Brothers staff are up in arms over a new, oddly suggestive perfume sales stand, particularly Mr. Grainger, who's lost his beloved centre display to the new perfume counter.

Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend
S01E06 · Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend

Apr 18, 1973

A reward is offered when a wealthy customer loses a diamond in the store. But which of the staff will be the one to find it?

About

Are You Being Served? Season 1 (1973) is released on Sep 08, 1972 and the latest season 10 of Are You Being Served? is released in 1985. Watch Are You Being Served? online - the English Comedy TV series from United Kingdom. Are You Being Served? is directed by Ray Butt,Bob Spiers,David Croft,John Kilby and created by Jeremy Lloyd with Mollie Sugden and John Inman. Are You Being Served? is available online on BritBox and BritBox Amazon Channel.

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 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.

As know as:

Wordt u al geholpen?, Foglalkoznak már önnel?, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Va Serveste Cineva?, Da li ste usluženi?

Countries:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Stream Service:

BBC

Production Companies:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Official Site:

Official Site

Taglines:

I'm Free !

Reviews

Nathan Heller
New Yorker
The show hopscotches between visual gags and arch double-entendre. But the wordplay is as creative as the slapstick, and the most delirious premises come where physical and verbal jokes meet.
by rottentomatoes, Aug 14, 2018
Diane Shipley
New York Magazine/Vulture
An American remake was pulled from screens after just a few episodes, which was really for the best.
by rottentomatoes, Aug 14, 2018

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