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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790780788
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 079078078X
Label: BBC Video
Manufacturer: BBC Video
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: BBC Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Running Time: 1250 minutes
Sales Rank: 53100
Studio: BBC Video
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Attention shoppers! Your favorite dysfunctional sales staff is back with more mischief more hilarity and more hair colors! Join Mr. Humphries Mrs. Slocombe Miss Brahms Captain Peacock Mr. Lucas and the rest of the gang as they make shopping at Grace Brothers the comic experience of a lifetime. The staff has been hard-at-work polishing and pressing all 35 classic episodes from series 6-10 of this beloved BBC comedy series most of them never before available on video. Also included is a bonus disc containing interviews television specials and other goodies featuring the Are You Being Served? cast.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 794051179821 Manufacturer No: E1798
Amazon.com:
The later series of definitive British sitcom Are You Being Served?--set in the hierarchical world of the sales staff of a department store--lost several of its original cast members, but this only gave more room for the antics of its most popular characters: The not-so-ambiguously-gay Mr. Humphries (sterling John Inman) and the multi-hued Mrs. Slocombe (Mollie Sugden, as regal and petulant as Queen Victoria), ably supported by lecherous floorwalker Capt. Peacock (wonderfully snooty Frank Thornton), affable Miss Brahms (helium-voiced Wendy Richard), and woefully incompetent Mr. Rumbold (jug-eared Nicholas Smith), who form a squabbling dysfunctional family within the strict rules, bowler hats, and neck frills of Grace Brothers store. Though the plots grow more absurd--one episode has the staff forced to sleep on a giant waterbed in the store basement, dressed like albino Teletubbies--the comfortable but never complacent rapport of the cast keeps the show sharp. Even the most groan-inducing sexual double-entendres (and there are many) gets carried off with aplomb; no matter how many times Mrs. Slocombe refers to her poor pussy (that is to say, her cat, Tiddles), it still gets a laugh from Sugden's unbeatable poker face. And though the writing occasionally wears thin, some episodes are among the series' best: When Mrs. Slocombe is temporarily given a managerial position, the overturning of the established order is comic gold; the staging of a Punch and Judy show lets everyone indulge in some topnotch slapstick. Are You Being Served? is a twinkling star in the Britcom firmament, guaranteed to turn any viewer into a delirious fan. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Still worth it
Much has been made of the cast changes in the final seasons of AYBS?, and I can agree that the departure of Trevor Bannister as Mr. Lucas did take some of the steam out of the show. Likewise, the death of Arthur Brough (Mr. Grainger) after Season Five changed the tenor of the show a bit. But his replacement, James Hayter (Mr. Tebbs) was a brilliant, if short-lived, piece of casting. Likewise Alfie Bass as Mr. Goldberg. After that the senior assistant role proved lacking or non-existent, and Mike ... Read More
Rating: - A Truly Obstreperous Show, And I Am Unanimous In This!
I gave the first "Are You Being Served?" box set five stars, and many parts of this set deserve five as well, but overall it was not quite up to the standards of the early show. The set is still delightful, but many of the original cast members left (Mr. Grainger, Young Mr. Grace, and Mr. Lucas, most notably) and were replaced by actors who didn't seem to gel with the rest of the cast as effectively as the originals; this is especially true in the cases of Mr. Spooner, the replacement for Mr. Lucas, ... Read More
Rating:  - Still an avid fan!!!
Perhaps the definitive U.K. sitcom from the 1970s & '80s, Are You Being Served is still one of the funniest shows ever made. Any collection of episodes of this great series is worth having. But the best way to buy it is in a large set like this, so you also get a great price. I was enthralled from start to finish watching this set, which comes with bonuses including the 1st episode of Grace & Favour (aka Are You Being Served Again) and an excellent 90 minute celebration of Mollie Sugden's ... Read More
Rating: - Good even with the updates in the cast ...
Although this later set includes updates to the cast which weren't always up to snuff as the originals, I still enjoy these shows and I think you will too. So, "are you free" for some great entertainment?
Rating: - I'm Free..............!!!!
Although I have recently ordered this series and have not had a chance to view the DVD's I have seen the show on TV and seen almost every episode. The cast did go through some changes but the final product is usally very funny. This program is an icon in the television programming arena because of its humor but because it's just desigened to be really funny and really silly all at the same time. You can tell that the cast is having a great time as well especially when Mr's Slocombe's character really wants ... Read More
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