Synopsis
Season 5 of Are You Being Served? (1972) is ready to watch online on iFILM — seven episodes of the British sitcom about life inside London's Grace Brothers department store. The year is 1977, and the manners behind the counter haven't budged.
This run shakes up the routine more than usual. Mrs. Slocombe announces a happy event and the floor panics, until it emerges that her cat is the one expecting kittens. Mr. Grace reshuffles the departments, and the work turns oddly enjoyable for whoever lands in toys. The staff mark the founder's eightieth birthday with a spoof of This Is Your Life. Young Mr. Grace comes back from America armed with brisk new sales techniques. The back half raises the stakes: the team fends off a hostile takeover by posing as shareholders, and weighs the fate of short-tempered Mr. Grainger, before a lottery ticket changes everything.
Same farce of class, manners and relentless double entendres, played by the same faces — Humphries, Slocombe, Peacock, the stingy Mr. Grace. The fifth season is a touch bolder in plotting without losing the earlier spirit. Stream Are You Being Served? Season 5 online on iFILM.
7 episodes
S5·E1Mrs. Slocombe Expects
The staff have kittens when Mrs. Slocombe announces she's expecting a happy event, but it turns out that it's merely her cat that's pregnant; when she refuses to leave Tiddles unattended, she braves the ire of Captain Peacock by smuggling the cat into the ladies' fitting room.
S5·E2A Change Is As Good As a Rest
When Mr. Grace announces that he plans on temporarily reorganizing the departments, the staff are indignant, but find that work can be a lot of fun...if you're working in the toy department.
S5·E3Founder's Day
To celebrate Mr. Grace's 80th birthday, the staff organize This is Your Department, a spoof of This is Your Life.
S5·E4The Old Order Changes
Young Mr. Grace returns from a trip to the U.S. with a host of new sales techniques that he is eager to implement.
S5·E5Take-over
The staff prevent another firm's hostile takeover of Grace Brothers by impersonating the shareholders. Mr. Harman gives a rousing speech, and Grace Brothers is saved.
S5·E6Goodbye Mr. Grainger
Mr. Grainger's temper has become extremely short. The staff, in a private meeting with Mr. Rumbold, decide he must go. However, when he wins the lottery, his bad mood vanishes and he makes his peace with the staff and stays on.
S5·E7It Pays to Advertise
The staff star in a TV commercial for Grace Brothers, produced by Mr. Humphries. Could Mr. Grace's cheapness be the reason for using his staff in such fashion?
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