Grace and Favour Are You Being Served Again Episode List
| Grace & Favour | |
|---|---|
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| Also known as | Are You lot Being Served? Again! |
| Created by | Jeremy Lloyd David Croft |
| Written past | Jeremy Lloyd David Croft |
| Directed by | Mike Stephens |
| Starring | Mollie Sugden Frank Thornton John Inman Wendy Richard Nicholas Smith Fleur Bennett Joanne Heywood Billy Burden Michael Bilton |
| Land of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | two |
| No. of episodes | 12 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer | Mike Stephens |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | BBC |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide 2entertain ABC (Australia, home video) Warner Abode Video (U.s., home video) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC1 |
| Original release | 10 Jan 1992 (1992-01-x) – 8 February 1993 (1993-02-08) |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Are You Being Served? |
Grace & Favour (American title: Are You Being Served? Over again! ) is a British sitcom and a spin-off of Are Y'all Being Served? that aired on BBC1 for two serial from 1992 to 1993. It was written by Are You Existence Served? creators and writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.
History [edit]
The idea of a spin-off was suggested past the cast of Are Yous Existence Served? nearly immediately after the original series ended in 1985. Lloyd and Croft liked the idea, but agreed that the department store format was exhausted and that any spin-off would require a modify of location.[1] Despite the enthusiasm of the original bandage, it was almost seven years before Lloyd and Croft brought them back to television.
The plot line that brought the cast from the store to the estate was considered remarkably topical, since information technology aired just a few months subsequently the death of British publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, who was revealed to have borrowed heavily against his ain employees' pensions.
Grace & Favour is dissimilar from Are You Being Served? in that information technology involves a continuous story arc, with certain plot elements, such as the human relationship between Mr Humphries and Mavis Moulterd, unfolding throughout each episode. This in plough allowed the series to involve more than complex storylines and subplots, making information technology possible to include returning guest stars and location shooting, neither of which was ever done on Are Yous Beingness Served?
The title of the series is a double play on words. A "grace and favour" is a home or other property owned past a monarch only given to the apply of a faithful retainer upon retirement, as with the retired characters in this series. Grace is also the surname of the owner of Grace Brothers, the fictional department shop where the characters previously worked and was likewise the previous possessor of Millstone Manor.
International broadcasts [edit]
In the United States, the prove was broadcast on PBS member stations every bit Are You Being Served? Again! in 1992. In a documentary included with the Are You Beingness Served? DVD box gear up, John Inman mentioned that he preferred the American title, and idea the program may have performed better if that title was used in the Great britain as well.
In Australia, the show was broadcast on Network X in 1994.
Cast [edit]
Are You lot Being Served? cast member Trevor Bannister (Mr Lucas) chose not to return. Arthur English language (Mr Harman) was also not brought back due to his retirement. Wendy Richard (Miss Brahms) took time off from filming EastEnders to film Grace & Favour. Also returning to their roles were John Inman (Mr Humphries), Mollie Sugden (Mrs Slocombe), Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock) and Nicholas Smith (Mr Rumbold). These were the same five actors to have appeared in every episode of Are You Beingness Served?
Other surviving cast members, such as Mike Berry (Mr Spooner), Benny Lee (Mr Klein) and Larry Martyn (Mr Mash), were not asked to reprise their roles.
Several new recurring characters were added to the evidence. Joanne Heywood as Miss Lovelock, Billy Burden as farmer Morris Moulterd, and Fleur Bennett as his daughter, Mavis, appeared in all 12 episodes. Michael Bilton, as Mr Grace's solicitor, Mr Thorpe, and his assistant, Miss Prescott, played by Shirley Cheriton, likewise played cardinal roles in both serial.
Cast list [edit]
- Mollie Sugden equally Mrs Betty Slocombe
- John Inman as Mr Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries
- Wendy Richard as Miss Shirley Brahms
- Frank Thornton as Captain Stephen Peacock
- Nicholas Smith as Mr Cuthbert Rumbold
- Fleur Bennett every bit Mavis Moulterd
- Joanne Heywood every bit Jessica Lovelock
- Billy Burden as Morris Moulterd
- Michael Bilton as Mr Thorpe
- Shirley Cheriton as Miss Prescott
- Gregory Cox as Mr Frobisher
- Andrew Barclay every bit Malcolm Heathcliff
- Diane Kingdom of the netherlands as Celia Littlewood
- Andy Joseph as Joseph Lee
- Eric Dodson as Sir Robert
- Maggie The netherlands as Mrs Cleghampton
Plot line [edit]
The new series has the elderly and womanising "Young Mr Grace", head of Grace Brothers section store, recently deceased while scuba-diving on holiday in the Caribbean with his personal secretary, Miss Jessica Lovelock. Every bit per the instructions in his will, the remaining workers in each department at Grace Brothers' endmost sale observe their pensions invested in different things. The members of the Men'due south and Ladies' Departments, along with Ms Lovelock, inherit the manor that is the locale of the show.
Young Mr Grace had invested their pension funds in a multitude of antiquated businesses, the largest of which is a country estate house called Millstone Estate. The will stipulates that they cannot sell the house and carve up the profits, but tin utilise the belongings in the manner of their choosing. After a trip to Millstone Manor to view the property, where they also learn their pensions are minuscule, they decide to alive in the manor in club to run it as an inn and live off the proceeds. Miss Lovelock, given accommodation in the grooms' quarters and accuse of the horses, as well lives at the manor much to the distress of Mrs Slocombe and Miss Brahms. Captain Peacock is not so bothered, however.
The series begins only after the funeral of Mr Grace, and quickly brings the cast to Millstone Manor. There they find Mr Rumbold having problem trying to find new staff after telling the previous staff "in no uncertain terms" that if they did non straighten up they could leave – and they left. With time running out, the old Grace Brothers employees are obliged to "stand in" for the staff in guild to take their picture taken as the inn staff for a travel brochure. Soon they find that they are running the inn themselves with the aid of Mr Moulterd, who manages the manor'southward farm, and his daughter Mavis, who helps out at the estate.
With Mr Humphries forced by circumstance to share a bed with Mavis, he finds that she develops a chip of a crush on him. This series of events leads all of the cast to presume they are having an affair, which flatters Mr Humphries, though he denies any such goings-on. Despite these events, Mr Humphries continues to be rather clashing to the idea of a relationship with anyone. A young homo from the hamlet vies with Humphries for Mavis' affection, and frequently attempts to intimidate him by threatening him with violence.
On her kickoff day in the land, Mrs Slocombe tries to move a gypsy's carriage that blocked the route and ends up charged with wagon theft, narrowly fugitive a charge of indecent exposure since there was "but a wink" every bit the out-of-control wagon raced past the post office. At her trial, all of her colleagues are called as witnesses, but information technology is Mr Moulterd who ends upwards winning the case for her. Mrs Slocombe is grateful, despite her irritation that he brings up their sexual relationship during the State of war, which she insists never happened. Also notable is the unexpected appearance of the oftentimes alluded to, only never-before-seen Mr Slocombe, from whom Mrs Slocombe seeks to hide her identity.
Other events include the staff putting on a traditional harvest festival dance for octogenarian American visitors and putting on a showcase of British arts and civilisation for a tour group from Mongolia.
Episode one of Serial 2 contains a number of satirical references to the wrongful confidence and hanging of Derek Bentley for the murder of a policeman. The case revolved effectually the issue of whether Bentley's words "Let him have it, Chris" to his acquaintance Christopher Craig were meant literally ("Let him take the gun") or figuratively ("Open burn!"). The case had been widely publicised and was the subject of a movie titled Let Him Have Information technology starring Christopher Eccleston a few years earlier the testify was made.
Episodes [edit]
Series 1 (1992) [edit]
Serial 2 (1993) [edit]
Home release [edit]
All regions released contain both series of Grace & Favour in one set.[2]
Location filming [edit]
All external filming for the series was undertaken in and around Tetbury in Gloucestershire. Primary filming was at Chavenage House, which was used for Millstone Manor, just exterior Tetbury.
References [edit]
- ^ Rigelsford, Adrian; Brown, Anthony; Tibballs, Geoff (1995), Are Yous Being Served?: The Inside Story of Great britain'southward Funniest—and Public Television's Favorite—Comedy Series, KQED Books, ISBN0-912333-04-9
- ^ "Grace & Favour (Are You lot Existence Served? Again!) The Complete Series(BBC TV) (DVD)". Amazon.co.uk. 4 Feb 2016. Retrieved iv February 2016.
External links [edit]
- Grace & Favour at IMDb
- Grace & Favour at British Comedy Guide
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_&_Favour
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