Gavin & Stacey. Image shows from L to R: Stacey (Joanna Page), Gavin (Mathew Horne), Smithy (James Corden), Nessa (Ruth Jones). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions
We Love...
- TV factual
- Channel 5
- 2020
- 4 episodes (1 series)
A celebration of some much-loved sitcoms. Features Stephen Mangan.
- Due to return for Series 2
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 2 - We Love Are You Being Served?
Are You Being Served?. Image shows from L to R: Mrs. Betty Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), Miss Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard), Mr. Dick Lucas (Trevor Bannister), Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), Mr. Mash (Larry Martyn), Mr. Ernest Grainger (Arthur Brough), Mr. Wilberforce Humphries (John Inman), Captain Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton). Copyright: BBC
Grace Brothers shut up shop over thirty years ago but for one night only we are reopening that infamous department store, climbing into the lift and going up to celebrate everything we love about Britain's brashest bawdiest sitcom, Are You Being Served?.
Further details
We talk to celebrity fans about their enduring love of the show including Fern Britton, Reverend Richard Coles, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, Patsy Palmer, Sherrie Hewson, Christopher Biggins and Amanda Barrie amongst many others. We also hear from family and friends of the cast who share their personal memories and never before seen private photographs of Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Trevor Bannister, Frank Thornton and Wendy Richard.
Featuring side-splitting clips and behind the scenes footage, prepare to have your ribs well and truly tickled as we pay tribute to the true-blue sitcom phenomenon that is Are You Being Served?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 28th August 2020
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 5
- Length
- 90 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Cast & crew
| Stephen Mangan | Narrator |
| Shaparak Khorsandi (as Shappi Khorsandi) | Self |
| Amanda Barrie | Self |
| Patsy Palmer | Self |
| Nina Myskow | Self |
| Nina Wadia | Self |
| Sherrie Hewson | Self |
| Pamela Bannister | Self |
| Richard Coles (as Rev Richard Coles) | Self |
| Christopher Biggins | Self |
| Mike Berry | Self |
| Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen | Self |
| Fern Britton | Self |
| Robin Moore | Self |
| Jane Thornton | Self |
| Jeremy Lloyd | Self (Archive Material) |
| David Croft | Self (Archive Material) |
| Trevor Bannister | Self (Archive Material) |
| Mollie Sugden | Self (Archive Material) |
| John Inman | Self (Archive Material) |
| Wendy Richard | Self (Archive Material) |
| Mark Turnbull | Director |
| Emma Clarke | Executive Producer |
| Matt Crook | Executive Producer |
| Mark Turnbull | Producer |
| Paul Frost | Editor |
| Alex Rook | Graphics |