Product Details

• Actors: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith
• Directors: Jeremy Lloyd
• Writers: Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft
• Producers: Mike Stevens
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: February 24, 1998
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0793927536
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,731 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

Happy Returns. The staff celebrates Mr. Grace's birthday with a traditional free but inedible lunch, and Mr. Humphries directs an outlandish cabaret show, "The Ballet of the Toys." Founder Day. In honor of Mr. Grace's 80th birthday, the staff puts on a hilarious version of "This Is Your Life," using his purloined memoirs. The Old Order Changes. When Mr. Grace returns from traveling abroad, he insists that his staff adopt an easy-going, casual American approach to customer service...and to each other.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this show!, May 11, 2000

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pontmarie (SF Bay Area) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Are You Being Served:Happy Returns [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Are you being served? is one of the great British sitcoms ever! In this tape, Mr. Grace celebrates his birthday with an awful lunch and then the store sets up the Ballet of the Toys. It's hilarious, John Inman at his very best!

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They do keep up appearances with the very best, October 10, 1999

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Don (San Diego, California.....USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Are You Being Served:Happy Returns [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As with all of the series that are available......humor at its best. I have the entire collection that is now on video.and wish for more. I am addicted I fear....and wonder when they will ask me, are you being served?

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The laughs continue..., February 20, 2001

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Are You Being Served 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Are You Being Served? is the story of the staff of the Ladies' and Gentlemen's Wear departments in Grace Brother's department store. While customer's come and go, the staff fights each other and their incompetent superiors with laughs all around. The stories are hilarious and are generally clean, though a running gag involves one lady's constant frettings about her pussy (cat). So, this tape can be watched with younger ones, but some discretion should be exercised.

Tape 6 includes the following three half-hour episodes:

Happy Returns - Series VI, episode 6, 1978 - It's Mr. Grace's 81st birthday, and the staff decides to put on a ballet to celebrate. (This episode includes a great song and dance number.)

Founder's Day - Series V, episode 3, 1977 - To celebrate Mr. Grace's 80th birthday, the staff decides to create their own episode of "This Is Your Life," complete with hilarious "forged" pictures.

The Old Order Changes - Series V, episode 4, 1977 - Mr. Grace returns from the United States with new ideas. Not surprisingly, the staff's execution of those ideas produces a hilarious fiasco. (This episode includes Captain Peacock in a robe and wig, saying, "peace"!)