(Scoffs) Cor Blimey! I Don’t / Didn’t Understand This, But No Wonder The Grace Bros. Department Store Firm Was Out Of Business, So To Speak. (I Think.)
@@jrgboy started out being the story of a junior salesman in the menswear department. Trevor Bannister was to share top billing with Molly Sudgen. Their names were alternated each week as being the top stars. By the 3rd season the other characters filled out and stepped up. By time he left Trevor Bannister had been relegated to a few smart mouth exchanges with Mrs. Slocumbe. Before that he was always in trouble for things he was doing and saying. Accused of flirting with all the ladies in the stores and trying to get with Miss Brahms. It was reported that Bannister was touring with a stage production and couldn’t make it back to the show so he was replaced. I personally think he was tired of having the same few lines and stale role. They condensed him down to playing the same thing week after week. No one realized that Mr. Humphries was going to become the hit he was and that the rest of the cast would be so good in their part.
Yes, he was in a skiffle-turned rock 'n' roll band called The Outlaws, and they had their first hit in early '63, even before the Beatles had a top ten.
I bought the complete box set from Morrison’s today 24th December 2020. £ 20. Love & miss them all they were so talented 🎄 so hope everyone can enjoy tomorrow. Stay safe xx
Wow! I copied them off the air 20 years ago and recorded them onto VCD which was the 'thing' before DVD came out. I should have waited and bought the DVD because it would have been cheaper
'Don't worry about the length, it will ride up with wear' was said with every garment sold in the show, also Mr Humphries answering the phone...'Menswear' in a butch way. Great British comedy.
I started watching Are You Being Served when I got the chicken pots as a kid back in the early 90's, and i've been hooked ever since!! Ultimate nostalgia
I remember seeing this back then, and was SHOCKED it was the last of AYBS. I don't follow (much of) anything, so, I never knew it was well-known, and had been (loudly) announced. I actually saw it on a Sony Watchmen (remember that?), because I wasn't going to be anywhere near a 'regular' TV, and being a fan of the show, I liked to keep up with all new episodes. To say I was 'shocked' to learn (as them singing 'Rat-a-tat-a-tat' echoes) THAT was THE end of Grace Bros and it's marvelous cast. On the few times I've heard Chanson, I ALWAYS hear in the back of my mind, Messes Slocumb and Brahms and Mr Humphries doing their back-up. They're all in our hearts and thoughts forever. BTW; In the late 70a, I remember reading an article which described Molly Sugden as THE ONLY female comedian who could give Lucille Ball's comedic ability a run for the money.😢 In honour of them all... Rat-a-tat-a-tat!💐 (01:20), (01:38), (01:56), (02:14), (02:27), (02:36) (That's a 'rat-a-tat' for each main character plus one for those who left us during the series' run
This episode originally aired over 8 months after I was born. Great episode. Also this was the first episode of are you being served I had ever seen, back in 1995.
Haha you do realise you probably paid for them to be made in the first place. Now the conning BBC is making you pay to watch them again. Delboy couldn't have come up with a better scheme.
He left as he felt the show was becoming more and more pantomime & recycling the same jokes Sadly when Mike Berry came in they lumbered him with basically the same character and jokes, which didn’t help
When the show aired on PBS in my area this episode was rarely shown. I think I seen it three times out of the many years the reruns were on PBS. It seems as if the PBS stations had access to only certain episodes from specific years but never then entire show. It's the final episode of the show, broadcast in 1985, but no mention was made about it being the last episode.
Always been my favorite show. It makes me long for something that probably never actually existed. If this is an actual song can somebody please direct me to it? I searched for ever but it’s probably my spelling.
Also writer/ producer David Croft had a heart attack in 1983 so this left Jeremy Lloyd to write the final shows on his own, the BBC who were never keen on the show, turned it into The John Inman Show...
If you were to enter the room during this last three minutes, you would be forgiven for believing that you were watching a completely different television program altogether.
So I take it in Grace and favour Mr spoon became a star and traveled the world in the events of Grace and favour so I wonder if that's why I wasn't in the sequel.
The sequel arrived 6 or 7 years after the original ended and I think the producers of the sequel wanted the core line-up that had been with the show from the beginning to anchor it: Peacock, Humphreys, Slocombe, Brahms, and Rumbold. Along side the core line-up returning for the sequel they added three supporting characters to round out the cast.
Why didn’t they have an epilogue to this episode?! I wanted to see what became of Mr Spooner! No doubt Captain Peacock would try to steal his limelight, Mr Humphries would say he’s the star, and Mrs Slocombe would act snooty as usual
What do you think of the Staff’s Musical Performance?
Hillarious! Pity the clip doesn't continue through the credits to the end though!
I never saw this episode. Now I'm wondering how many other episodes I missed?!
@Onyx Angel What makes me laugh is, given the show's love of innuendo - they made 69 episodes!
Derek Horne Ha, Ha! 😂
Love it. Love it. LOVE IT!!!!!!
this show was classic and these guys never get old. hard to believe all the originals are gone but not forgotten
Mike Berry is the only one who is still alive of the main cast, aside from some of the women who worked for Young and Old Mr. Grace.
🎶 Rat-ta-tat-tat 🎶 😂
ChrySalis1113 doesn't click........!!!!
Mr Humphries cleverly channels 1972 David Bowie, 1977 Elton John, 1982 Boy George and (any time) Liberace all at once.
A bittersweet way to end one of the greatest British sitcoms in history with this episode!
They had no idea this was the last episode. 😢
(Scoffs) Cor Blimey!
I Don’t / Didn’t Understand This, But No Wonder The Grace Bros. Department Store Firm Was Out Of Business, So To Speak.
(I Think.)
Yes, the show had lost its way a while before, it had become The John Inman Show
@@jrgboy started out being the story of a junior salesman in the menswear department. Trevor Bannister was to share top billing with Molly Sudgen. Their names were alternated each week as being the top stars. By the 3rd season the other characters filled out and stepped up. By time he left Trevor Bannister had been relegated to a few smart mouth exchanges with Mrs. Slocumbe. Before that he was always in trouble for things he was doing and saying. Accused of flirting with all the ladies in the stores and trying to get with Miss Brahms. It was reported that Bannister was touring with a stage production and couldn’t make it back to the show so he was replaced. I personally think he was tired of having the same few lines and stale role. They condensed him down to playing the same thing week after week. No one realized that Mr. Humphries was going to become the hit he was and that the rest of the cast would be so good in their part.
slapshot1971109: Not one of but THE GREATEST t.v. program!!!
Very very very honorable mention to I Love Lucy and The Twilight Zone.
Show will never get old. Made my kids watch it and now my grandkids! Mr. Spooner was a lounge singer by profession when he was hired for role!
Mike was a Rock & Roll singer in the 60's..
@@jrgboy i didnt know that! I remember that episode so well. How can one forget such an episode?
Yes, he was in a skiffle-turned rock 'n' roll band called The Outlaws, and they had their first hit in early '63, even before the Beatles had a top ten.
The very last episode.
Love the shows, they never get old and we watch an episode almost nightly.
I bought the complete box set from Morrison’s today 24th December 2020. £ 20. Love & miss them all they were so talented 🎄 so hope everyone can enjoy tomorrow. Stay safe xx
Wow! I copied them off the air 20 years ago and recorded them onto VCD which was the 'thing' before DVD came out. I should have waited and bought the DVD because it would have been cheaper
Mr Humphries looks like he could be named Phyllis
Definitely a Phyllis
He looks a bit like Phyllis Diller here
More like Garry Glitter :)
Still watching Are you being served? In 2022😆
Still watching in 2023.
I loved this song. All are so talented. Maybe PBS WILL aired again.fr.california-greetings
You can watch it 24/7 on mobdro if you have a firestick
Just finished this series. I had a little tear
'Don't worry about the length, it will ride up with wear' was said with every garment sold in the show, also Mr Humphries answering the phone...'Menswear' in a butch way. Great British comedy.
I started watching Are You Being Served when I got the chicken pots as a kid back in the early 90's, and i've been hooked ever since!! Ultimate nostalgia
Me too, same story! Started watching as a kid and I'm still watching as a grown man. Show never gets old
It’s ‘Chickenpox’ ffs!
@@heli-crewhgs5285 I know!! I just like saying chicken pots. Don't judge me
@@midastouch4323 Unfortunately for you, if you continue to write like a child, you will be judged and found to be, well...childish!
I had asteroids as a child.
Bert Spooner...otherwise known as Mike Berry, who’s a brilliant singer and actor!
And Wendy Richard is looking gorgeous in this clip!
I remember seeing this back then, and was SHOCKED it was the last of AYBS. I don't follow (much of) anything, so, I never knew it was well-known, and had been (loudly) announced. I actually saw it on a Sony Watchmen (remember that?), because I wasn't going to be anywhere near a 'regular' TV, and being a fan of the show, I liked to keep up with all new episodes. To say I was 'shocked' to learn (as them singing 'Rat-a-tat-a-tat' echoes) THAT was THE end of Grace Bros and it's marvelous cast.
On the few times I've heard Chanson, I ALWAYS hear in the back of my mind, Messes Slocumb and Brahms and Mr Humphries doing their back-up.
They're all in our hearts and thoughts forever.
BTW; In the late 70a, I remember reading an article which described Molly Sugden as THE ONLY female comedian who could give Lucille Ball's comedic ability a run for the money.😢
In honour of them all...
Rat-a-tat-a-tat!💐 (01:20), (01:38), (01:56), (02:14), (02:27), (02:36)
(That's a 'rat-a-tat' for each main character plus one for those who left us during the series' run
This episode originally aired over 8 months after I was born. Great episode. Also this was the first episode of are you being served I had ever seen, back in 1995.
"It's just not my day." 🤣
Love BritBox programming, and 'Are you being served is the reason I subscribed.
Haha you do realise you probably paid for them to be made in the first place. Now the conning BBC is making you pay to watch them again. Delboy couldn't have come up with a better scheme.
I saw this when it was first on in the US on PBS. It has aged well. Rat ta tat ta tat.
I’ve been looking for this for ages!
Absolutely love this show, glad I can still watch it 24/7 on mobdro
Britbox
Interesting that Wendy Richards recorded with Mike Sarne "Come outside" (1962) and later covered that with Mike Berry (1986).
Who could dislike this show still a classic
The chipmunks bit reminds me of that Allo Allo episode with fannys wedding lol
Was never the same after Trevor Bannister left.
Already wasn’t very good when Arthur Brough left.
He left as he felt the show was becoming more and more pantomime & recycling the same jokes
Sadly when Mike Berry came in they lumbered him with basically the same character and jokes, which didn’t help
No, I didn't really like Mr. Spooner either .
@@peterrraklliproductions2020There were 3 major declines of the show, the departures of Brough, Bannister, and Young Mr. Grace.
I am glad it is not just me, who thinks that.
That's was great lovely dancing
Live from Memphis, Tennessee. I love are u being served....
I'm in Memphis too! Feeling nostalgic.
I'm in Memphis, Tennessee. And these years after your comments WKNO PBS has taken Are You Being Served? off the schedule. 12/31/24
Thank you PBS
Brilliant 👏 Loved this show! Never gets old ❤
Love this show. 10 thumbs up
OMG This is lol When They Sing Alvin The Chipmunks From UK lol
Nick Ross in a cameo role on "Are you being served?"
This is an episode I never saw. I'm gonna get britbox simply because I never saw it. Cant believe I never saw how this show ended
When the show aired on PBS in my area this episode was rarely shown. I think I seen it three times out of the many years the reruns were on PBS. It seems as if the PBS stations had access to only certain episodes from specific years but never then entire show. It's the final episode of the show, broadcast in 1985, but no mention was made about it being the last episode.
2:21 you’ll thank me later 😂
Never gets old
Mr Spooner and his fellow singers look like glam-rock musicians
With a nod (and a wink) to Manhattan Transfer(h piano intro is virtually identical to their 1978 version)
But then MT version was quite like the 1958 version by Art & Dotty Todd...
@@jrgboy Vocally, yes, but the Todds' version used more instruments.
Always been my favorite show. It makes me long for something that probably never actually existed. If this is an actual song can somebody please direct me to it? I searched for ever but it’s probably my spelling.
apparently it's called chanson d'amour. TH-cam seemed to find it the minute I looked up "are you being served song"
Remember this well. It's so good and clearly they had fun making it.
Such a great series! My favorite series next to Benny Hill. Love the cast! ❤🙏👍
Mr Humphries looks like a cross between Garry Glitter and the later day Tony Curtis!
Also writer/ producer David Croft had a heart attack in 1983 so this left Jeremy Lloyd to write the final shows on his own, the BBC who were never keen on the show, turned it into The John Inman Show...
Love, love, love it!!! ❤❤❤
I can’t stop laughing!
This episode beings back memories of my youth.
If you were to enter the room during this last three minutes, you would be forgiven for believing that you were watching a completely different television program altogether.
Mr humphries looks like a reject from Duran Duran and wham here
1:08 Normal Speed.
2:21 Chipmunk Speed.
0:38 Isn't that actor who plays Truly from the world's longest-running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine?
Yes, Frank Thornton. Though famous for Captain Peacock, long before he played Truly
@@derekhorne8076 Also famous for being in Tony Hancock's' The Blood Donor in 1961..
@jrgboy. - yes, very true!
Did you know there is an ice cream shop in San Francisco called Humphrey and Slocomb.
This absolutely magnificent they are so clever
Fabulous outfits of Mr. Humphreys and Mrs. Slocombe.
Last episode was so funny
Best scene
I saw this many times but not for years. When they all paraded out in those outfits and that hair I fuckin lost it.
2:21 Music goes too fast and they sound like Alvin And The Chipmunks. That's My Favorite Part. Also I think Mr Spooner has a really nice Voice.
This was of course, the Series Finale
He was played by professional singer Mike Berry
Just hilarious
I love the part where the music starts playing VERY fast
Me too
He looks likes David Bowie.Tony
Spooner looks like some 80's rock band member
So I take it in Grace and favour Mr spoon became a star and traveled the world in the events of Grace and favour so I wonder if that's why I wasn't in the sequel.
The sequel arrived 6 or 7 years after the original ended and I think the producers of the sequel wanted the core line-up that had been with the show from the beginning to anchor it: Peacock, Humphreys, Slocombe, Brahms, and Rumbold. Along side the core line-up returning for the sequel they added three supporting characters to round out the cast.
@@ACcountryFan Believe Trevor Bannister was asked to reprise his role as Lucas but turned it down
Great.
2:22 Helium
Liberace lives again.
Was that the vicar from Keeping Up Appearances in the studio?
Christopher Drennan looks like lolz
No, the Vicar was played by Jeremy Gittins not this guy
He is the best
Better than i remember at 15
This was so funny.
Suze, at the end, is mrs.monsoon from Ab Fab, real daughter
Nick Ross makes a cameo on AYBS.
Mr Humphries is looking a bit like Bea Arthur from the Golden Girls here….
Jesus tapdancin' Christ, I haven't seen this episode in years, not since 2006 or 2007 when KQED used to air this show on weekday afternoons.
I’m a Mr Lucus fan
Unknown to Americans, Mike Berry was an established singer and recording artist from the 1960's onwards.
Extremely funny
Inman is sort of Gary Glitter meets Liberace meets Bet Lynch
Mike berry was a fill in. The character treated badly till the end when they wanted in on his fame.
Omg I've never seen this
Which episode was this in?
This was the very last episode of the series
1985
1 of the best clips of the series
OMG funny!
Lol bes scene ever
I have to sense that someone blew a line. 15 is the faster speed. 7 1/2 would be the slower.
How in the world do you spell the name of that song?
Garrett Hammersmith chanson d’amour 😁
I love this episode
Incredible to think this late '84... I loved the show, but it went on about three series too long.
Love this show! They will nev
Never be forgotten!!
Bracing backing vocals.
This a real song?
Yes. Originally performed by The Manhattan Transfer
Mollie sugden is ace
Why didn’t they have an epilogue to this episode?! I wanted to see what became of Mr Spooner! No doubt Captain Peacock would try to steal his limelight, Mr Humphries would say he’s the star, and Mrs Slocombe would act snooty as usual
It was known that the BBC didn't like the show & kept threaten to cancel it for years but the public loved it...
Should have gone to ITV then! There's more to life than the BBC! 🤣
Mrs slocombe would tell you to get stuffed lol