Are You Being Served?
About Are You Being Served?
This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, and many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes of the period, including the effeminate Mr.
BBC One's Are You Being Served? is a comedy series. Its themes are camp, department store, sitcom, and LGBT.
Its 10 seasons and 69 episodes aired between September 1972 and April 1985. Seasons run to about 7 episodes.
Frank Thornton leads the cast as Captain Peacock, John Inman as Mr. Humphries, Mollie Sugden as Mrs. Slocombe, and Wendy Richard as Miss Brahms.
It streams on BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, and Britbox Apple TV channel in the United States. Superstore, The Drew Carey Show, and Vicious make useful companions to Are You Being Served?, all filed under workplace comedy. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 99 votes and it carries a TV-PG rating.