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unusual facts about Are You Being Served?


Are You Being Served?

The theme song has also been covered by Australian band Regurgitator on their 1999 album ...art.


Ann Sidney

After relinquishing the Miss World title, Sidney had many small acting roles on TV, including the The Avengers and Are You Being Served?, and in films, notably Nicolas Roeg's Performance and the Bond movie You Only Live Twice, as well as forming a touring cabaret act.

Candy Davis

She won the Miss Nude pageant in 1982 and subsequently took on the role as the buxom blonde secretary, Miss Belfridge, on the last two series of the British sitcom Are You Being Served?.

Captain Peacock

Captain Stephen Peacock is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Harold Bennett

Harold Bennett (17 September 1899 – 15 September 1981) was an English actor best remembered for having played 'Young Mr. Grace' in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?.

Honington, Suffolk

David Croft the co-writer of Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!, Are You Being Served?, Hi-de-Hi!, etc. lived in Honington until his death in 2011.

Larry Martyn

He was famous as Mr. Mash in the BBC comedy series Are You Being Served?, appearing in the first three series before being replaced by Arthur English.

Miss Brahms

Miss Shirley Brahms is a fictional character from the BBC1 comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Mrs. Slocombe

Betty Slocombe is a fictional character from the BBC One comedy show, Are You Being Served?.

Take a Letter, Mr. Jones

Take A Letter, Mr. Jones was never a ratings success (only running one season), but in recent years it has been resurrected by many American PBS stations, where Are You Being Served? is also a hit.


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Arthur Brough

His daughter Joanna Hutton (died 2002) became the first female curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, for a period in the 1960s - coincidentally just three miles away from the town of Keighley, where Arthur Brough's Are You Being Served? co-star Mollie Sugden was born.

Others included Andrew Jack: Sydney Sturgess, who went on to marry Barry Morse: and Trevor Bannister, who would later act alongside Brough in Are You Being Served?