Are You Being Served? (Australian TV series)
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Are You Being Served? was an Australian version of British sitcom Are You Being Served? produced by Network Ten in 1980. It ran for 16 episodes until 1981. The drawcard was the presence of actor John Inman reprising his role of Mr Humphries from the original series.
The premise had Mr Humphries (Inman) moving to Australia and taking a sales job at the Bone Brothers Department Store. Apart from the new setting and Australian rather than English characters, the characters and situation was almost identical to that of the original series, as was the set design and layout and even the costuming (down to the senior sales woman's ever-changing hair colours and the female assistants' uniforms). Menswear and ladies apparel shared a floor of a large city department store and the departments came into regular conflict. Like the original there was a pompous floorwalker, a randy sales junior, the strident older sales woman and the attractive but brassy and common younger sales woman.
The cast included comedian Shane Bourne (as "Mr Randall") and June Bronhill (as "Mrs Crawford").
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