You Rang, M'Lord?

You Rang, M'Lord?
Opening titles of the series in Art Deco-style font.
Created by	Jimmy Perry David Croft
Written by	Jimmy Perry David Croft
Directed by	David Croft Roy Gould
Starring	Paul Shane Jeffrey Holland Su Pollard Donald Hewlett Michael Knowles Brenda Cowling Bill Pertwee Mavis Pugh John Horsley Angela Scoular Yvonne Marsh Perry Benson Barbara New Catherine Rabett Susie Brann
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	26 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	David Croft
Running time	50 minutes approx.
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	29 December 1988 (1988-12-29) – 24 April 1993 (1993-04-24)
Website

You Rang M'Lord? is a BBC television sitcom written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC (although there had earlier been a pilot episode in 1988). The show was a comedy set in the house of an aristocratic family in the 1920s, contrasting the upper-class family and their servants in a house in London, along the same lines as the popular drama Upstairs, Downstairs.

The series featured many actors who had also appeared in their earlier series, notably Paul Shane, Jeffrey Holland and Su Pollard, all of whom had previously been in Perry and Croft's holiday camp sitcom, Hi-de-Hi!. Also featured were Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles from Perry and Croft's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, and Bill Pertwee and occasionally Frank Williams from Dad's Army. Numerous small parts were played by other alumni of David Croft and/or Jimmy Perry shows. The memorable 1920s-style theme tune was sung by Bob Monkhouse.

Episodes of You Rang M'Lord? were fifty minutes long, rather than the usual thirty (for BBC sitcoms), and attempted to introduce a more reflective approach and more complex plotting than other Croft and Perry series. There was also less reliance on filmed location sequences.