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Are You Being Served?

1972–1985BBC OneComedy

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The Grace Brothers department store, opened by a lift announcing each floor's stock.

Are You Being Served? opens with a main title sequence of 37 seconds.

It arrived on BBC One in 1972, when A Question of Sport, Grandstand and This Is Your Life were also on the network.

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The opening titles

Season 1

37s

Posted by the David Croft estate — the third of his series here from the same source.

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