Frank Thornton

Are You Being Served? is one of the most popular and most outrageous British sitcoms of all time. For more than a decade, millions of viewers tuned in for its smutty innuendo and the electric chemistry between the cast. But behind the laughter were plenty of secrets and scandals.

This new special reveals the secrets of the long-running sitcom's extraordinary success. Helped by former cast and crew members, families of the stars no longer with us, and celebrity fans, we learn the secrets of this comedy classic and get to see previously unseen interviews and rare behind-the-scenes archive footage.

Grace Brothers shut up shop over thirty years ago but for one night only we are reopening that infamous department store, climbing into the lift and going up to celebrate everything we love about Britain's brashest bawdiest sitcom, Are You Being Served?. Featuring side-splitting clips and behind the scenes footage, prepare to have your ribs well and truly tickled as we pay tribute to the true-blue sitcom phenomenon that is Are You Being Served?

John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!

A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.

1932년 영국 고스포드 파크의 대저택에서 사냥 파티가 열린다. 저택의 주인인 윌리엄 매코들 경과 그의 부인은 전국 각지에서 모여든 귀족적인 상류층 인사들을 맞아들이고, 저택은 파티 준비로 시끌벅적해진다. 위층에서 귀족들의 허영 넘치는 잡담이 오고 가는 사이, 인사들을 모시고 온 하인들은 좁고 복잡한 아래층에서 귀족들의 사치스러운 파티를 빛내기 위한 준비에 분주하다. 귀족과 하인의 경계가 희미해지고 있는 시대에 유독 엄격한 계급적 구분이 존재하는 이 공간에서 귀족과 하인들은 자신들 안에서조차 경계를 나누려 애쓴다. 정해진 살인사건의 순간이 다가오면서 영화는 등장인물들 각자에게 관객이 납득할 만한 살인의 동기를 부여한다. 드디어 매코들 경이 자신의 서재에서 송곳에 찔려 숨진 채 발견되면서 저택은 일순간 공포의 도가니로 돌변한다. 살인자는 귀족일 수도 하인일 수도 있다. 수사에 나선 톰슨 형사는 저택의 모든 사람들을 심문하고, 베일을 벗는 비밀은...

1839. The young Nell Trent is leading a happy life with her grandfather in his curiosity shop. Wharf owner Daniel Quilp has given large amounts of money to Nell's grandfather as an investment, expecting a large profit. But when Quilp finds out the old man has lost all the money with playing cards, he is determined to get the man in a madhouse as revenge. Nell and her grandfather are forced to leave their house and to start traveling across the country. But Quilp isn't sitting still, his spies are everywhere. Meanwhile a stranger is also looking for Nell's grandfather.

런던의 한 고아원에 있던 소피는 어느 날 밤 거인을 목격한다. 거인은 인간 세계에 자신의 존재가 발각될 것이 두려워 소피를 거인의 나라로 데리고 가고…

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the suitors begin busily hunting out a madman who's willing to do it, and they find Petruchio: a man who's come to wive it wealthily in Padua. And Petruchio marries Kate with a plan to tame her, while everybody else begins scheming to win Bianca's hand.

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated directors - Lindsay Anderson, Peter Brook, and Tony Richardson. Comic legend Zero Mostel stars as an opera singer (in full costume) navigating the London transport network as he attempts to reach Covent Garden in 'Ride of the Valkyrie'. Scripted by Shelagh Delaney, 'The White Bus' blends realism, drama, and poetry as a despondent young woman travels home to the North of England. And Vanessa Redgrave stars in Tony Richardson’s romantic reverie and musical featurette 'Red and Blue'. Produced in 1967, but ultimately shelved.

An opera singer, dressed in full costume and dress, must navigate through the busy city streets to get to the theater in time for his performance. Filmed for the shelved portmanteau film 'Red, White and Zero' in 1967.

The clothing department's floor requires renovation; rather than let the staff sit idle while the area is closed off, the management sends them on a paid holiday in Costa Plonka, a fictional city in Spain. Their hotel and its surroundings prove to be dismal, and the group tries to pass the time by acting on the crushes they have developed for one another in the workplace. This results in disaster, as multiple amorous notes reach the wrong recipients and everyone gets wrong ideas about who fancies whom. Meanwhile, Carlos, the hotel manager receives an unwelcome visit from an old acquaintance, Cesar Rodriguez, who is after Mrs. Slocombe after seeing her passport. He is also plotting a revolutionary uprising and wants to use the hotel as his base.

British sex comedy. Sir Percy de Courcy accidentally turns some poor tasting wine into an aphrodisiac when his old school chum, Mike Scott arrives with a photographer and several gorgeous models.

Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs

Failed music hall performer Jack James inherits a brothel when his ancient Aunt dies. He takes over the running of the business and falls in love with its star attraction, beautiful prostitute Virginia.

프랑스 루이 13세 시대, 추기경 리슐리외의 권세가 하늘을 찌르고 궁궐 안팎에서는 국왕의 친위대인 총사들과 리슐리외의 근위대 사이에 싸움이 끊이질 않았다. 작은 시골 마을에서 자란 달타냥은 어려서부터 아버지에게 검술을 배워 매우 민첩하고 용감하고 모험심이 강했지만 인내심이 부족해서 하루가 멀다 하고 실수를 저지르는 사고뭉치 젊은이였다. 달타냥은 20세가 되던 해에 총사대에 들어가기 위해 총사대의 트레빌 대장을 만나러 파리로 가서 삼총사인 포르토스와 아라미스, 아토스를 만나고, 여관 주인의 아내인 콘스탄스에게 첫눈에 반한다. 한편 왕비를 사랑하던 버킹엄 공작은 몰래 궁전으로 잠입해서 왕비를 만나 사랑의 증표로 12개의 다이아몬드가 달린 목걸이를 받아간다. 이 사실을 알게 된 리슐리외 추기경은 밀레이디 드 윈터에게 버킹엄 공작을 유혹해서 12개의 다이아몬드 중에서 2개를 훔쳐 오라고 지시한다. 게다가 루이 13세는 왕비에게 자신이 선물로 준 다이아몬드 목걸이를 하고 무도회 때 함께 춤을 추자고 한다. 곧, 왕비의 하녀인 콘스탄스는 달타냥에게 왕비의 친서를 가지고 영국의 버킹엄 공작에게 가서 다이아몬드 목걸이를 받아오라고 부탁한다. 달타냥은 삼총사와 함께 왕비의 친서를 가지고 영국으로 길을 떠나지만, 곳곳에서 잠복 중인 리슐리외 추기경의 부하들을 만나 삼총사들 모두 부상을 입어 달타냥 혼자 버킹엄 공작을 찾아간다. 추기경의 스파이인 밀레이디 드윈터 부인이 이미 다이아몬드 2개를 훔쳐간 사실을 안 버킹엄 공작은 급히 똑같은 다이아몬드를 만들어서 달타냥에게 준다. 다이아몬드 목걸이와 함께 칼을 선물로 받은 달타냥은 무사히 프랑스로 돌아오고, 삼총사의 도움으로 추기경의 부하들을 물리친 뒤, 애타게 기다리던 왕비에게 목걸이를 전해준다. 그리고 왕비를 위기에서 구해준 달타냥은 삼총사의 축하를 받으며 국왕의 친위대인 총사가 된다.

Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!

한 작은 마을에 포르노 서점이 문을 연다. 어느날 서점으로 배달되어야 할 포르노 잡지가 은행으로 잘못 우송되는 일이 발생한다. 마을은 이로 인해 소동에 휩싸인다.

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a troupe of Girl Guides.

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.

The legendary Sid James stars as the head of a chaotic household in this movie spin-off from the hit ITV sitcom. Sid Abbott and his best mate Trevor (Peter Butterworth) enjoy home-brewing. Plans to turn their hobby into a profitable, if illicit, sideline come unstuck when a Customs and Excise officer (Terry Scott) moves in next door! What’s more, Sid’s outspoken and madcap family hinder neighbourly relations even further.

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

영화는 왓슨의 사후 50년 후 은행 금고에 맡겨둔 홈즈의 유품을 공개하는 것으로 시작된다. 왓슨은 과학 추리를 예술의 경지로 끌어올린 자신의 가장 절친한 친구이자 최고의 명탐정인 홈즈의 사건 중에서 자칫 홈즈의 스캔들이 될 수도 있는 사건의 내용을 공개하지 않고 홈즈의 유품과 함께 보관해 두었다. 때는 1887년 8월. 애버네티 장군의 살인 사건을 해결하고 돌아온 홈즈가 베이커 가의 하숙집에서 무료한 나날을 보내던 중, 갑자기 한밤중에 벨기에 출신의 발라동 부인이 홈즈의 집에 나타나고, 발라동 부인은 공기펌프 기술자인 남편이 영국의 요나 회사에 취직이 된 후 행방불명 됐다며 남편인 에밀 발라동을 찾아달라고 홈즈에게 부탁한다. 발라동 부인의 묘한 매력에 끌리던 홈즈는 사건 수사를 시작하지만, 몇 가지 단서를 찾을 무렵 갑자기 형인 마이크로프트가 나타나 영국 여왕과 관련된 사건이라며 홈즈에게 당장 사건을 정리하라고 경고한다. 그러나 홈즈는 형의 경고에도 불구하고 형의 실험실에서 알아낸 몇 가지 단서를 가지고 발라동 부인과 애쉬돈 부부 행세를 하며 스코틀랜드의 인버네스로 향한다. 홈즈의 일행은 공동묘지에서 찾은 에밀 발라동의 시신에서 에밀이 질식사했음을 확인하고, 네스 호의 괴물이 공기펌프가 달린 중요한 장치임을 밝혀낸다. 그러나 이때 또다시 등장한 형 마이크로프트에게 사건의 전말을 듣게 되는데... 사건의 전말은 이렇다. 홈즈의 형인 마이크로프트는 에밀이 발명한 공기펌프를 이용해서 잠수함 개발에 박차를 가하고, 독일은 공기펌프 기술을 빼내기 위해 발라동 부인으로 가장한 미모의 첩보원을 홈즈에게 보낸 것이다. 결국 네스 호의 괴물은 마이크로프트가 만든 잠수함 요나 호였으며, 에밀 발라동은 실험 도중에 사망한 것이었다. (EBS)

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman he must make his family more socially acceptable.

Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.

In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.

Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.

The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.

The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30. Director Joseph McGrath's 1968 British comedy stars Dudley Moore, Suzy Kendall, Eddie Foy Jr. and Patricia Routledge.

Lucy goes to hip London to experience all the current fads.

A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.

The sinister Dr Watt has an evil scheme going. He's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for Dr Watt, Detective-Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue! In this send up of the Hammer Horror movies, there are send-ups of all the horror greats from Frankenstein to Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde.

Gavin, Jean and Peter meet Danny the Dragon, an unintentional visitor from outer space. Danny and the children encounter many adventures before Danny finally manages to return to his own planet.

Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues

A swiftly assembled musical fantasy movie made to capitalise on the mid-Sixties, British craze for gonks (a sort of soft, furry toy). Today it is of more interest for featuring music by such artists as Lulu, The Nashville Teens, and The Graham Bond Organisation.

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.

인간의 의지와 죽음의 사유 세계!! 사랑하는 아내 리게아를 땅에 묻은지 몇 년이 지나 사랑스런 여인 로위나를 만나 결국 결혼을 한다. 그녀를 만난후로 깊은 사랑에 빠지면서도 리게아가 늘 곁에 있음을 느낀다. 어느날 묘비명에서 리게아의 사망일자가 지워져 버린 것을 발견 하게 되는데...

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.

The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.

When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.

A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?

An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.

Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.

A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.

To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup d'etat. He tries to achieve this with a bomb, but then something goes wrong...