Are You Being Served?

Grace Brothers, a somewhat old-fashioned department store is the setting for this long running farce centred on the staff of the clothing department.

The plots were thin and they could only afford one set and a small cheap office for cutaway scenes, but the jokes kept coming. On the mens side of the department was the camp Mr. Humphries (John Inman) who declared Im free whenever a customer needed attention. He worked alongside grouchy Mr. Grainger and the department junior Mr. Lucas.

In charge of the ladies cash desk was Mrs. Slocombe with her fluorescent rinses and Miss Brahms played by Wendy Richards who is better known now as Pauline Fowler in Eastenders.

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