Goodbye Mr Grainger

Goodbye Mr Grainger

All we can think is that there's been a directive from (raises eyes heavenwards) Head Of Comedy level.

It's April Fools Day 1977 and someone must have had a word with the 'Are You Being Served?' production team, telling them to get more colours onto the screen at once.

Suddenly, the logo is rendered in a garish blue and Mr Humphries is flogging a red thing to a bloke  whilst shamelessly displaying his orange and green pants for all to see.

'Goodbye Mr Grainger' also sees Mr Harman showing off his ability to do atmospheric lighting when he turns them all off except a carefully-positioned spotlight that just happens to be in the right place when Mr Grainger wants to sit down on a chair and write his resignation letter.

Arthur Brough will be back for his final appearance next week, but he gets to oscillate between crabby and friendly here and we'll miss him when he's gone.

On the 'Round The Archives' front, we've now recorded all the main material needed for Episode 33, but the way we've done one item means that there's more editing needed thsn usual.

Hopefully it'll all come together and in the meantime we must thank Tim Worthington for helping us do some good work on Thursday night. We've been meaning to do something with him for ages and we hope to repeat the experience at some time in the future.

But you'll have to wait until March before you get to hear the full details of our concerns about what yellow ice lollies are actually made of...

Our video on 'Goodbye Mr Grainger' can be seen here.

(Written by Andrew Trowbridge)