Cast
Are You Being Served? cast member Mike Berry (Mr Spooner) chose not to return. Arthur English (Mr Harman) was also not brought in due to his retirement. Wendy Richard took time off filming for EastEnders to film the two series of Grace and Favour. (In EastEnders, it was said that her character travelled to New Zealand to visit her brother Kenny Beale after a car crash.) Also returning to their roles were John Inman, who played the effeminate Mr Humphries; Mollie Sugden, as former head of ladieswear Mrs Slocombe; Frank Thornton, who played the floorwalker Captain Peacock; and Nicholas Smith as the former head of the department, Cuthbert Rumbold. These were the only five actors to have appeared throughout the entire run of Are You Being Served?
Several new repeat characters were added to the show. Joanne Heywood as Miss Lovelock, Billy Burden as farmer Maurice Moulterd, and Fleur Bennett as his daughter, Mavis, appeared in all 12 episodes. Michael Bilton, as Mr Grace's solicitor, Mr Thorpe, and his assistant, Miss Prescott, played by Shirley Cheriton, also held key roles over both series.
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