Are You Being Served? (TV Series)

Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend (1973)

Arthur Brough: Mr. Grainger

Quotes 

• Mr. Ernest Grainger : Captain Peacock, are you free?

  Captain Stephen Peacock : Yes I'm free, Mr. Grainger.

  Mr. Ernest Grainger : I hope you won't mind my mentioning the fact but I, I left my purse behind on the wireless in the kitchen this morning.

  Captain Stephen Peacock : No, I don't mind you mentioning it at all.

  Mr. Ernest Grainger : No, well I was wondering if you could let me have the pound back which I lent you yesterday?

  Captain Stephen Peacock : Of course, Mr. Grainger, I... Oh dear. I too, seem to have left my notecase in the study on top of the color television set.

  Mr. Ernest Grainger : Oh, have you? I seem to remember that you did the same thing last Friday, Stephen.

  Captain Stephen Peacock : Yes, Ernest. Yes, it seems I'm, I'm getting rather forgetful.

  Mr. Ernest Grainger : Yes, that's why I reminded you about the pound.

• Captain Stephen Peacock : Mr. Humphries, Mr. Lucas, are you free?

  Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries , Mr. Dick Lucas : [both together]  Yes, we're free.

  Captain Stephen Peacock : Check these please.

  [hands them their pay slips] 

  Captain Stephen Peacock : Mr. Grainger, are you free?

  Mr. Ernest Grainger : At the moment... Thank you.