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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790794990
Format: Box set, DVD-Video, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0790794993
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 14
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 07, 2004
Running Time: 2070 minutes
Sales Rank: 5602
Studio: BBC Warner
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Product Description:
There's plenty of laughter in store when an unbelievably quirky contingent of sales clerks makes shopping at Grace Brothers the comic experience of a lifetime. For the first time all 69 episodes of this classic Britcom have been gathered together in one deluxe collection. Each episode is presented uncut and has been lovingly restored. Also included are two bonus discs containing over five hours of extra material!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 794051206329 Manufacturer No: E2063
Amazon.com:
The definitive British sitcom is almost certainly Are You Being Served?, which depicts the squabbles, misadventures, and flirtations of the staff of Grace Brothers department store. The show was originally conceived as a vehicle for an irreverent junior salesman named Mr. Lucas (Trevor Bannister), but it soon became clear that mocking a social hierarchy isn't half as funny as taking it all too seriously. The show really revolves around Mrs. Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), whose wildly changing hair color and mercurial moods terrorize the rest of the staff, and cheerful but sly Mr. Humphries (the effervescent John Inman), one of the first gay characters on television treated with dignity--or at least no more indignity than anyone else (the show makes some noise about not being sure if Mr. Humphries is gay or not, but no one in the audience will have any question). But the rest of the cast is superb as well: Frank Thornton as the elegant but leering floorwalker Capt. Peacock, Wendy Richard as the sexy, impish Miss Brahms, Arthur Brough as cantankerous Mr. Grainger (who, sadly, died after the fifth season; other characters took his position on the sales staff, but never quite matched up), and Nicholas Smith as the self-serving but incompetent manager Mr. Rumbold form a comic ensemble that has rarely been equaled.
These characters, written with affection and played with superb comic dash, endlessly jockey for status and salary while simultaneously creating an alternative family (the core structure for any sitcom on either side of the Atlantic). Are You Being Served? deserves its devoted fan base, who will revel in this comprehensive 14-DVD box set (which includes specials about Inman, Sugden, and Richard, as well as other extras). --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - bad disc
I am a big fan of the group but the first disc has a defect. It stops in the first min. of playing the 2nd episode. Then the rest of the episodes won't play when you select it to play. It took a while for me to go through the entire collection. The disc shows no marks or scratches so It must be encoded with a defect. Also tried it on other dvd player and same problem.
Wish you could also have the option to continuously play remaining episodes no matter which episode you start.
Rating: - This is a great series
Are You Being Served? Its a great series, for anyone who has worked retail. You can really appreciate everything. However, best thing to remember is that its not all business. If you can appreciate British humor, then I would recommend checking it out from the library before you purchase. But if you do purchase, you wont be sorry.
Rating: - "Mr. Humphries, get your hands off my pussy!!!!"
I've recently been watching this on UK-TV on Foxtel and all I can say is HILARIOUS!!!!!
It has everything from being camp and crude. It's one of those typical British sitcoms that'll have you remembering for a lifetime.
I keep laughing at the humour of Ms. Silcombes "pussy" or in other words... tiddles.
The actors do a great job for their characters and the plot and storyline is very well set out for it's time.
It's definitely worth the buy.
p.s. don't eat or drink while watching this... you might have to change the sheets later ;)
Rating: - Great product
Great product sender sent it on time and wss what she put in the description.
Rating:  - Are You Being Served
The service and delivery from Amazon was excellent. We have watched 3 of the 14 DVDs and the quality on #2 & #3 was great. The first disc is defective & on the last couple of episodes on it kept starting & stopping & finally we could not see the end of the last episode on the disc at all. I hope the rest of the discs don't have the same problem.
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