Are You Being Served? In Australia/Down Under - S01E05 The Apartment
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- Mrs. Crawford's new flat has disappeared in a landslide, and none of the staff offer her accommodation. Mr. Bone allows Mrs. Crawford to stay at the store. With her furniture set up, pussy by her side and a real front door (complete with door bell) Mrs. Crawford is just as happy as can be, until a transport strike leaves everyone without a ride home. The staff slowly turn up at Mrs. Crawford's front door asking for a place to stay.
Replacing squatters with a landslide is quite a funny adaptation.
I give them credit to make the series Australian centered. However, I, too, state that "nothing beats the British version."
This is the original.
@@fjccommish Please state facts. I know you're probably spoiling for a 'fight'.
@@fjccommish no it's not
@JayYoung-ro3vu he is looking for a fight
@@darraghgregory1269 I am correcting false info. The Aussie version is the original.
The British version is much better!😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Most of these Australian episodes are word-for-word scripts from the British series written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, yet another writer is credited. That's weird.
It can't be word-for-word.
I think it is because, from the late 70s to mid 80s the BBC gave licenses to Commonwealth realm broadcasters free rights to their most successful scripts and casting. The original writers didn't have crediting rights in their contracts with 'Aunty' (very unfair). I am guessing the credited writee simply 'localised' the scripts a little.
In the UK it was squatters in her new flat that caused Mrs Slocombe-s moving issues, not Mrs Crawford's 'landslide' of course
@@PumaLynmuch of it is actually. If you watch a bunch of these you’ll see.
I missed the comedy beat of the original show. The jokes are delivered too fast and it seems like the lady playing Mrs. Crawford rushes thru her lines and doesn’t show much emotion. She cannot compare to Mrs. Slocombe! What a genius!
I love this series. All of them are so great.
What a lot of viewers may not realize is that when John Inman said the Australian version was "tighter", he was really making a virtue out of necessity because the British version, being made by the BBC, didn't need to stop for commercial breaks as the BBC doesn't show them.
Given it reuses the British scripts almost line by line, but had to squeeze in commercials, without dropping any lines or scenes the cast had no choice but to rush their lines to compress the script into a shorter runtime it wasn't designed for. With that in mind, it explains why the acting may not seem as good because the comic timing, so crucial to any comedy, got lost. It's not the casts fault.
I hadn't even considered that before. This does make a lot of sense.
Thank you for sharing your perspective.
This could never replace the British version.
This is the original. The British version was a copy.
@@fjccommish Yeah, no. British version 1972, this version 1974.
@@adrian993 Nope. It's clear. The characters on the British copy are copies of these characters. Mr. Grace = Mr. Bone. Captain Peacock = Captain Wagstaff etc.
The American version never made it past the first episode, Beane's of Boston. It was a horrible remake of German Week.
@@adrian993this was much after ‘74, my cousin’s in it as a minor character and she was definitely older than the age 15 that would have equated her to be… (she was born in ‘59)… this was early to mid ‘80’s.
Growing up o used to watch this and alo' alo' every night on pbs, it just blew me away to find another version " bbc one is the best one but both are good o think.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂 I Love John Inmani Mr Humphrey.
I'm an Aussie, and I prefer the English version of this show.
The Apartment did not air until the 7th season of the British version..
The store looks better… but that’s it. I prefer the British version. ITS THE BEST
John Inman was right... these episodes were "tighter." Hindsight _is_ 20/20, I suppose. Plus, correct casting from "down under" doesn't 'alf 'urt either!
Even tho i like this version, the British version has spoiled me.😊 Vee.
nowhere near as funny as the original episode
This is the original.
@@fjccommish This is not the original, the British Are You Being Served, came out in September 1972. Australian Are You Being Served came out in 1980. So please before speaking, research.
@@magicalcollin Nope. Notice the British characters are mostly copies of the Aussie characters.
@@fjccommish So what you are saying is "Aussie" Being Served Characters from the 1980's is the original over the British Being Served from 1970's? You do know the Aussie "Are You Being Served" used the same scripts that were already written and filmed. It's just copied and pasted lol
@@magicalcollin You brought up bogus dates. I pointed out that the British characters are copies of the Aussie characters.
Captain Peacock = Captain Wagstaff, for example.
Mrs. Slocumb = Mrs. Crawford.
Mr. Grace = Mr. Bone.
It goes on and on.
This such a poor substitute for the original that I wonder if they had someone else that originally was to play the Humphries character and that's why John Iman was staring in it?
It is just not as good as the British version.
Oh how awful
Okay, so, it IS admittedly difficult to umm... "appreciate" (ahem)... the Australian remake in a vacuum. Especially after a LIFETIME of enjoying the original. That said, after giving this show an honest and fair chance, I just found myself staring stupidly, feeling nothing but cringe and second-hand embarrassment...
If anyone from Australia can help me with this...
Was this show funny to you guys when it actually aired? And did Australia not get the original AYBS? in syndication (as we did in America on Public Broadcast)?
the acting is a bit woody
As an Aussie, this was the first episode I managed to watch through. The actors don't sound like typical Aussies though.
The timing and delivery of the actor’s lines is horrible.
It's a shame they didn't give an ensemble-centric script, ya know, to THE ENSEMBLE! If they wanted Mr. Humphreys to have his own show, then they should have written him one from scratch! The poor "supporting cast" is left rushing through their lines (that is, if they weren't cannibalized to further bloat John Inman's part), which throws off any sense of comedic timing. The episode/scenes that WERE written specifically for the Australian version are genuinely funny! The remaining 99% of the show is just embarrassing and awkward and lacks the charm the original managed to capture. A comedienne as talented as June Bronhill deserved better than this!
I going to London with staff and Chelsea and Charlotte and Catherine and Sarah and Ian
this is just terrible...
rehashed hash
London host
My God, the acting is bad. It’s like a 11-year-old reading a textbook.
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