Are You Being Served? ratings (TV show, 1972-1985)
Rank | 2,725 / 29,857 |
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Trend | 11 |
Genres | Comedy |
Seasons | 10 |
Episodes | 68 |
Total votes | 14,179 |
Average votes | 209 |
Average rating | 7.6 / 10 |
This quintessentially British sitcom is about Grace Brothers, a department store in London which is owned and kept traditional, almost pre-war (e.g. precise dress code for ladies frills and gentlemen's hats according to rank), by two brothers who look old enough to have fought in the Boer war but rarely appear, as most scenes play on one floor where Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold is the executive (meaning he enjoys an endless parade of foxy but stupid secretaries) in charge of management while his dignified floor walker, Captain Stephen Peacock, has daily charge over two small sales teams. The bossy, implicitly man-hungry widow Mrs. Betty Slocombe supervises the attractive Miss Shirley Brahms (with a terribly common Cockney accent) -with first choice of customers, on commission- the sale of women's clothes and accessories; the sales star at the gentleman's side is Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humpries, an implied closet-gay true gentleman, whose successive superiors are first obviously nearly ...
Directors: Bernard Thompson, Bob Spiers, David Croft, Harold Snoad, John Kilby, Martin Shardlow, Ray Butt Writers: David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd, John T. Chapman, Michael Knowles Hint: you can examine a particular season more clearly on the graphs if you disable the trendline and all other seasons (via clicking on their labels). Episodes average rating Note: season labels indicates the average rating per episode between the parentheses. Episodes total votes Note: season labels indicates the average votes per episode between the parentheses. History (tracking since March 7, 2020) Note: amount of total votes may decrease due to periodic removal of fraudulent ones.Total votes: 27,751
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