Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977) on Netflix
Grace Brothers closes for refurbishment. Young Mr. Grace arranges a paid holiday at Costa Plonka for his staff. The penthouses they are promised prove to be tents outside the hotel.
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Plot summary
The Grace Brothers department store shuts for refurbishment, and Young Mr. Grace gives his employees a paid holiday at Costa Plonka, a resort on the Spanish coast. Mrs. Betty Slocombe, Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, Captain Stephen Peacock, Mr. Dick Lucas, Miss Shirley Brahms, Mr. Ernest Grainger and Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold travel out expecting to be given seven penthouses. They find tents pitched on the hotel grounds instead. Mr. Harry Harman, who made his booking as the Earl of Harman, is lodged in one of the hotel's luxury suites, to the annoyance of the others. Don Carlos Bernardo runs the hotel, where Conchita works as a young waitress, and Cesar Rodriguez has a crush on Mrs. Slocombe.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Are You Being Served? The Movie (1977)
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- Are You Being Served? was mostly shot at Elstree Studios, with only one day of filming at London Gatwick Airport. The budget was so tight that the unit could not go on location to Spain, so the holiday resort was rebuilt on the backlot.
- For the film's plot, writers David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd recycled a stage show they had already written based on the sitcom. Presented in Blackpool in 1976 by EMI head Bernard Delfont, it had been successful but was expensive to produce because of its large number of characters.
