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Are You Being Served? (1977) More at IMDbPro »

• The film is adapted from the successful stage version of the BBC1 series which ran at the Blackpool Winter Gardens in Lancashire, UK, during June-Oct 1976. It reuses several gags and setups from the parent show, most notably "Dear Sexy Knickers...".
  
  
• During rehearsals the Lifebelle Inflatable Swimsuit overfilled with air and burst, blowing John Inman's wig off.
  
  
• The brief sequence at Heathrow of the Grace Bros staff boarding their plane was the only location work the cast ever shot until "Grace & Favour" (1992).
  
  
• Andrew Sachs was hired as Carlos, the Spanish manager of Costa Plonka's Don Barnardo Palace, to capitalise on his then-current fame as Manuel in "Fawlty Towers" (1975).
  
  
• Although most were experienced film-actors, the cast found it odd to shoot without the feedback from a studio audience that they enjoyed whilst recording at the BBC.
  
  
• Fiery revolutionary Cesar at one point tells Carlos to "Listen very carefully." This became part of the catchphrase of French Resistance leader Michelle Dubois in Jeremy Lloyd/David Croft's subsequent WWII sitcom "'Allo 'Allo!" (1982).
  
  
• Penny Irving plays a character called Miss Nicholson. However, in the "Are You Being Served?" (1972) TV series, the she was called Miss Bakewell.
  
  

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