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Conference ljsrv1::tv_chatter

Title:The TV Chatter Notes Conference
Notice:Welcome to TV Chatter :-)
Moderator:PASTA::PIERCE
Created:Wed Dec 16 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:498
Total number of notes:5416

456.0. "Are You Being Served ?" by EVMS::SCHUETZ (VMS Clusters Memory Channel 381-6075) Mon Jul 15 1996 13:33

    What's the premise given for the new season of Are You Being Served ?
    Did they offer any reason for running the Inn/Boarding house, instead
    of the Department store?  Did they just run our of Department store
    jokes?
    
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456.1STRWRS::KOCH_PIt never hurts to ask...Thu Jul 18 1996 13:048
    
    
    Well, I believe there is a better synopsis in ROCKS::UK_TV, but since
    my wife is a fan, this is not really a new season, but just some
    additional work they could do. I remember it has to do with the way Mr.
    Grace invested their pension money and they had to go run the hotel
    because that is where the money was invested. If it failed, their money
    would be gone.
456.2TGRAPH::WEGGSome hard boiled eggs and some nuts.Fri Jul 19 1996 08:3321
�    Well, I believe there is a better synopsis in ROCKS::UK_TV 
	
	There certainly used to be a full synopsis of AYBS, I know because
	I entered it. I can't find it now though, it's not in note 493 of
	UK_TV, so maybe it was in the old TV conference. 

	Anyway what 'you have been watching...' is not a new season of 
	"Are You Being Served", but was a completely different program 
	with the same characters. In the UK it was called "Grace & Favour". 
	It was made at least 6 years after the last series  of AYBS - 
	haven't you noticed how much older they all are?

	.1 is about right.  The store has gone broke, and their pension money
	has been misinvested in the hotel, which the staff take over.

	Ian.

	BTW. The BBC are currently running a new David Croft series called 
	"Oh Doctor Beeching" set in a railway station in the 60's.  I'm not 
	sure whether it will ever reach the country that dubbs Thomas The Tank 
	Engine - certainly not without a name change anyway.
456.3see 8.*TGRAPH::WEGGSome hard boiled eggs and some nuts.Fri Jul 19 1996 09:242
	Also look at note 8.13 of this conference.
456.4EVMS::SCHUETZVMS Clusters Memory Channel 381-6075Mon Jul 22 1996 14:552
    Thanks.  How many seasons did the new show run?
    
456.5saw first 6 episodesGRANPA::JBOBBJanet Bobb dtn:339-5755Wed Sep 25 1996 15:4715