Product Details

• Actors: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Wendy Richard, Nicholas Smith
• Directors: Jeremy Lloyd, Mike Stevens
• Writers: Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft
• Producers: Mike Stevens, Martin Shardlow
• Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: February 11, 1997
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302359694
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,986 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover
Dear Sexy Knickers. The amorous adventures of the Grace Brothers staff go deliciously awry as love letters land in the pockets of all the wrong people! Our Figures are Slipping. The figures are down and tempers are up as Mr. Rumbold tries to run the store with the efficiency of a shop at sea. The staff, however, seem to think it's the Titanic. Camping In. When a rail strike "strikes," the staff of Grace Brothers camps out inside the store. That leads to a rash of tent hopping and all-around antics.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best one yet!!!!, June 27, 1999

By A Customer

I found this video to be the funniest of all the ones I have bought so far. I laughed through the whole tape and my 14 year old son and husband finally came in to see what was so funny. They came in on the second show and laughed just as much. There is something about the English humor that makes it so funny.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely hilarious, good fun, December 24, 1999

By A Customer

All the shows in the video series are great fun, but this particular tape is especially rewarding. The "Dear Sexy Knickers" trio are real classics of comedy--at once cheeky and innocent, good-natured and yet full of the endless friction of personalities that we quickly come to know and love. Far from being in poor taste, the shows are remarkably clean, civilized, and balanced. There is necessarily a hierarchy in the department store (try running anything without one!), but it is benevolent, and anyone that asserts himself too much is immediately undercut by those above or below him, or both. But it's all in good fun, and everyone's problems are small. If only life were like that.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Britcom!, December 27, 2000

By	Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Are You Being Served 1 [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 1 includes the following three half-hour episodes:

Dear Sexy Knickers - (Series I, episode 2, 1972) - When Mr. Lucas tries to slip a racy note to Miss Brahms, Captain Peacock finds it, and gives it to Mrs. Slocombe. Hilarity follows.

Our Figures Are Slipping - (Series I, episode 3, 1972) - With the sales figures slipping, Mr. Rumbold calls the staff in for an after-hours meeting.

Camping In - (Series I, episode 4, 1972) - When a transport strike strands the staff, Mr. Grace generously allows them to camp down in the store.