-Sset in the ladies department and gentleman's department of Grace Brothers, a large, fictitious department store in London.
-Written by Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft
-Came in at #20 on Britain's Best Sitcom
This is one of my mom's favorite TV shows
Main Characters
Mrs. Betty Slocombe
-Mollie Sudgen
-Head of the ladies department
-She is known for her frequent hair color changes.
-Makes some suggestive jokes, when talking about her cat.
-John Inman
-Effeminate, man who lives with his mother
-Frank Thornton
-Haughty floorwalker who fought in the North Africa campaign of WWII, but was actually in Service Corps
-Wendy Richard
-Young, attractive, working-class Cockney-speaking jr. assistant to Mrs. Slocombe
-Arthur Brough
-Easily confused department manager
-Trevor Bannister
-Young, penniless, womanising jr. salesman
-Harold Bennett
-very old, rich, stingy store owner
-Kenneth Waller
-Older brother to young Mr. Grace
-Arthur English
-Maintenance men who installed mechanised display units in store
-Often yelled at by Mr. Peacock for being on the store floors during store hours
-James Hayter
-Mr. Grainger's replacement.
-Alfie Bass
-Mr. Tebb's replacement
-Milo Sperber
-Expert shoe salesman, who replaced Mr. Goldberg as head of men's department
-Benny Lee
-Head of men's department after Mr. Grossman
Mr. Bert Spooner
-Mike Berry
-Replaced Mr. Lucas and was similar to him.
-During it's run, the show attracted some mild criticism for it's use of sexual stereotypes and jokes about sexual related topics. Also the show exhibited some bad stereotypes of people from England, such as Mr. Humphries' sexuality, people could percieve that as being gay and assume that most British men are gay
About the Top Gear post. Your post didn't sound like you were talking bad about Top Gear U.S. I thought the post was great! :) My favorite episode of Top Gear U.K. is when they went though Alabama and the other southern states and my favorite U.S. one is the thrid episode when they took the moonshine. :)
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