Are You Being Served? (TV Series)
Pilot (1972)
Frank Thornton: Captain Peacock
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Quotes
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Captain Stephen Peacock : [to Mrs. Slocombe] With your personality, I'm sure you could charm the very birds off the trees.
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Oh... Oh, I wouldn't say that.
Mr. Dick Lucas : Neither would I.
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Captain Stephen Peacock : Come a little closer, we don't want the customer's to hear.
Mr. Dick Lucas : You'd have to shout.
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Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Well, it's like this, Captain Peacock. When I agreed to move my department down here, I understood that I was to have proper display facilities. Well, I've just asked... very politely asked Mr. Grainger, to accommodate me on the centre stand, and he as good as told me to get stuffed.
Captain Stephen Peacock : That doesn't sound like our Mr. Grainger.
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Those weren't his exact words, but that's what he implied.
Captain Stephen Peacock : Well, ah, what did you expect me to do, Mrs. Slocombe?
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Well, I thought that as you were in command here, you'd tell him where he got off.
Captain Stephen Peacock : Well, erm, you must understand, Mrs. Slocombe...
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Oh, come now... Betty.
Captain Stephen Peacock : Betty. As I was saying, you must understand, Mrs. Slocombe, that Mr. Grainger has been here a very, very long time.
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Then it's time he went.
Captain Stephen Peacock : It's hardly your place to decide that.
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : You mean, you're just going to stand there, and let him walk all over me?
Captain Stephen Peacock : I don't think there's much danger of that.
[laughs]
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : What are you going to do?
Captain Stephen Peacock : I shall go and have a word with him, and, and hear his side of it.
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : But I told you his side of it.
Captain Stephen Peacock : You must leave me to me, Mrs. Slocombe.
Mrs. Betty Slocombe : Very well, Captain Peacock.
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Captain Stephen Peacock : If you're free, Mr. Grainger, I'd like a word.
Mr. Ernest Grainger : Oh yes, I, I think I'm free.
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Captain Stephen Peacock : Mr. Humphries, if you're free. Miss Brahms, gather round. Mr. Lucas, are you free?
Mr. Dick Lucas : [looks about him] I'm free.