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Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom created and written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.[2] Set in London, the show follows the misadventures and mishaps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments in the flagship department store of a fictional chain called Grace Brothers.
Broadcast between 1972 and 1985 on BBC1, the sitcom spanned ten series totaling 69 episodes – five of which are Christmas specials. There was also a 1977 film, a follow-up series with some of the same main cast in 1991–92, and a one-off episode with a new cast in 2016. Since its original release, all 69 episodes, comprising ten- series — including the pilot and all 5 Specials the sequel and the film — have been released on DVD.
Are You Being Served? was a great success in the UK and was also popular in three other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations(Australia, New Zealand, and Canada), and was successfully aired in The Netherlands and Belgium with Dutch subtitles as well. The show was also popular in Israel and in the United States, where it gained a loyal and enthusiastic following when PBS television stations began airing reruns of it in the mid-1980s, along with other British sitcoms. In 2004, it was ranked 20th in the countdown of Britain's Best Sitcom.[3] It is regularly repeated worldwide (BBC Two, Gold and Drama in the UK; PBS BBC America in the United States; and BBC UKTV, Fox Classics and 9Go! in Australia).