Are You Being Served
| Are You Being Served? | |
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Original title card for the show, in 1972
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft |
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Original cast:
Revival cast: |
| Theme music composer | Ronnie Hazlehurst |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 10 |
| No. of episodes | 70 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | David Croft |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format |
PAL (576i) 1080i HDTV (2016) |
| Audio format | Monaural Surround sound 5.1(2016) |
| Original release |
Original run: 8 September 1972 – 1 April 1985 Special: 28 August 2016 |
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Revival cast:
Sherrie Hewson (2016)
John Challis (2016)
Jason Watkins (2016)
Mathew Horne (2016)
Jorgie Porter (2016)
Niky Wardley (2016)
Roy Barraclough (2016)
Justin Edwards (2016)
Are You Being Served? (originally styled as "Are You Being Served?" in quotation marks) is a British sitcom created and written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC. Set in London, the show follows the misadventures and mishaps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments, in the flagship department store of a fictional chain called Grace Brothers.
Broadcast between 1972 and 1985 on BBC1, the sitcom itself spanned ten series totaling 69 parts – five of which are Christmas specials. Are You Being Served? was a great success in the UK and was also popular in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Israel. In the United States, it gained a loyal and enthusiastic following when PBS television stations began airing reruns of it in the late 1980s, along with other British sitcoms.
In 2004, the sitcom was ranked 20th in the countdown of Britain's Best Sitcom. It is regularly repeated worldwide (PBS and BBC America in the United States; and BBC UKTV in Australia and New Zealand). From 7 October 2013 to 17 March 2014, 61 episodes of the series were repeated in the UK on BBC Two as part of Daytime Classics. A further season of repeats were shown on BBC2 during the spring and summer of 2015. A one-off special, with a revamped cast very closely matching the appearance of the original, was broadcast on 28 August 2016.
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