Are You Being Served?

Date: 1977
Director: Bob Kellett
Production Company: Anglo-EMI Film Distributors

Stars: Mollie Sugden, John Inman, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough, Nicholas Smith
Location(s): West Sussex

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Storyline:

While Grace Brothers’ department store is being redecorated, the management sends the staff on a paid holiday to the Spanish resort of Costa Plonka.

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Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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The staff from Grace Brothers arrive at the airport to board their flight to Spain. Contrary to suggestions made elsewhere, this is Gatwick Airport near Crawley in West Sussex . . . as indicated by the “Welcome to Gatwick” signage on the background building. Various aspects of the airport appear in a good number of productions including ‘Play it Cool’, ‘The Great Armoured Car Swindle’, ‘The Primitives’, ‘We Shall See’, 'Candidate for Murder', 'A Hard Day’s Night’.

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Followed by Ernest Grainger (Arthur Brough) who gets of the coach last, Betty Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard), Wilberforce Humphries (John Inman), Dick Lucas (Trevor Bannister), Captain Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton) and Cuthbert Rumbold (Nicholas Smith) climb the steps to the plane. The cast are boarding a de Havilland DH 106 Comet 4c belonging to Dan-Air London who were based at Gatwick.

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The men and women of Grace Brothers’ clothing department reach their stereotypical destination. Possibly a second unit shot but likely to be stock footage.