Are You Being Served? Cast Has No Surviving Members

Who was your favorite character on Are You Being Served? and how do you think the spin-off series Grace and Favour measured up to the original show?
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - John Inman - Mr Wilberforce Claybourne Humpries
03:00 - Mollie Sugden - Mrs. Betty Slocombe
04:20 - Wendy Richard - Miss Shirley Brahms
05:21 - Frank Thornton - Captain Stephen Peacock
06:24 - Nicholas Smith - Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold
07:31 - Trevor Bannister - Mr. James and Dick Lucas
08:29 - Arthus Brough - Mr. Ernest Grainger
09:04 - Harold Bennett - Young Mr. Grace
09:39 - Outro
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Are You Being Served? was a popular British sitcom created and written by executive producer David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd for the BBC. The series was set in London and followed the misadventures of the staff of the ladies’ and gentlemen’s departments at a flagship retail store for a clothing chain called Grace Brothers.
The series ran for ten seasons with a total of 69 episodes from September 8, 1972, to April 1, 1985. There was also a spin-off series called Grace & Favour that included members of the original cast. That show ran from 1991 to 1992. In 1977, there was also an Are You Being Served? film that saw release.
Are You Being Served? was extremely successful in the United Kingdom’s audience ratings. The show, which left viewers in stitches for more than a decade, was later broadcast in The United States on PBS. The network ran reruns of the series and several other British series in the mid-1980s. The show also saw a wider release in countries like Canada, Australia, The Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, and Holland.
The last surviving member of the show's cast, Nicholas Smith, died in 2015 at the age of 81. In this facts-packed video, we'll be taking the opportunity to pay our respects to the show's deceased cast members while also highlighting a few of the reasons why the slapstick comedy resonated so strongly with viewers both in the UK and abroad.
Are You Being Served? Cast Has No Surviving Members