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a web site dedicated to providing you original quality Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy. With over 25 themes to choose from be sure you visit the rest of the website before leaving - click on Frames or No Frames to access the main menu. This page is my tribute to the classic BBC TV Comedy series Are You Being Served? - well are you?

Are you being served? is the show that made John Inman a household name with his catch phrase, I'm Free! It probably did more for the gay lobby in the 70's than any other initiative I can think of!! Are you being served? is a classic BBC TV Britcom series now enjoying re-runs on UK Gold on the Astra satellite and for me it seems funnier second time around. The show was launched in 1972 in black and white and featured the Grace Brothers Department Store. For 25 years, the Gentlemen’s Ready-to-Wear Department has occupied the third floor of the store. Now they are reorganizing the store and the floor must be shared with Ladies Separates and Underwear. Mr Grainger, played by Arthur Brough, as head of the Gentlemen’s Ready-to-Wear Department locks horns with the head of the Ladies Separates and Underwear, Mrs. Slocombe, played by Mollie Sugden. The day is saved with the appointment of a Ladies and Gents Floorwalker, Captain Peacock, played by Frank Thornton who is the link between the staff and management and can't really decide which "camp" he's in!

In spite of the initial hostility between Mr. Grainger and Mrs. Slocombe the junior sales staff generally get on well with each other and Captain Peacock is not adverse to banging heads when the situation calls for it. The story moves on to include other parts of the department store, special events are organised by the management, Mr. Rumbold played by Nicholas Smith, who tries to bolster flagging sales with all sorts of weird and wonderful schemes. The show features the comic talents of John Inman as Wilberforce ("I'm Free") Humphries the comedy thrives on innuendo and double meanings which in the 70's was thought a tad risky by some. Now we can enjoy the show for what it really is - a bit of harmless fun which is, after all, all in the mind of the viewer.

Are you being served? is a true classic, still popular 25 years after it first appeared on British television. The pilot episode appeared in 1972 and brought the two hitherto separate departments together for the first time. A total of ten series followed between 1973 and 1984 (none in 1980) with Christmas Specials in 1976, 1979 and 1981. In total some 65 episodes and specials were shown on the BBC and whilst no more will be made, new viewers can catch re-runs on satellite and PSP stations for many years to come hopefully.

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This classic series, scripted by comedy stalwarts Croft & Lloyd, is celebrated in this special compilation of episodes taken from its ten year span. The delicate staff of Grace Brothers will aim to please you once again in such episodes as Dear Sexy Knickers (1973) and Mrs. Slocombe Expects (1977). This BBC Radio double cassette features four episodes altogether. Running Time: approx. 120 minutes.

You can order your copy via the BBC Shop web site.

Here are the links I have found to other web-sites which contain information, episode guides, pictures and sounds relating to this popular TV comedy show.

Visit Phill's Are You Being Served Web Guide - excellent British TV Comedy database with episode/synopsis guide.

Visit Ganymede's Palace Are You Being Served? web site - excellent pictures and info here.

Visit the Are You Being Served? web site companion - great animated graphic of Grace Brothers Store.

Get the Videos

Click to go to Blackstar.co.uk

Get the Books

Click to go to Amazon.co.uk

Get the Audio Books

Click to go to Amazon.co.uk

The Are you being served? Desktop Theme is my tribute to this classic BBC TV comedy series from the 70's and 80's. This 2-in-1 Desktop Theme features themed start-up and shutdown screens, two different 800x600 hi-colour desktop wallpaper, animated cursors and new desktop icons. Also included are new windows sounds selected from the sound track of the show to accompany the windows events in a humorous and funny way. I have also included a full featured screensaver made with Screen Saver Studio. Full installation instructions are provided and the whole theme is available in a convenient zip file to download.

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