Are You Being Served?

1972•10 series•Entertainment / Comedy

Available on U&Gold

This comedy, which follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags and double entendres. Much of the show's humour parodies Britain's class system, with the characters rarely calling their co-workers by their given names. Many of the programme's characters are based on stereotypes, including the effeminate Mr Humphries and the rich-but-stingy store owner.

Episode 1Is It Catching?

Shop floor shenanigans from Grace Bros department store. When Mr Humphries contracts a rare tropical disease, the whole department has to be isolated.

Episode 2A Personal Problem

Captain Peacock becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair with Mr Rumbold. She must like men with big ears!

Episode 3Front Page Story

Classic laughs! Mr Humphries is appointed editor of the new Grace Brothers in-house magazine.

Episode 4Sit Out

The sitcom that's as British as fish and chips. Business is so poor that the staff are asked to take a ten per cent pay cut - resulting in a rooftop protest.