Are You Being Served Founders Day 5

ah oh oh yeah peacock expressin Grainger present Slocombe I'm here just a present well if I'm here a nice bit present mustn't I Humphries present and correct Brahms here Lucas now the reason for this parade is that people have been tinkering with the time book if the record is to be believed those present yesterday included Errol Flynn whose handwriting is not too similar to mr. Lucas's and Oscar Wilde Hey for your future reference mr. Humphrey should be spelt with an e have already admonished two miscreants yes but it needs somebody with more authority to drive at home no one expects this sort of thing in kitchenware and do it yourself but not in ladies and gentleman's fashions well that'd be all sir no no there's one more thing today is Monday thanks for telling us allow me to continue mr. Lucas Friday is a landmark in the history of grace brothers on that day young mr. grace becomes an octogenarian does that mean he's not allowed to eat meat that means he would be 80 years old and a fine age if I may say sir I hope I could be as active when I make him well that's hardly likely you're not as active as he is now the point is I think that this floor should do something special for him to commemorate this notable event I know I only have to throw the problem into your laps for you to come up with some cracking ideas well don't say anything now give it some thought formulate some ideas and I'll use my expertise to pick a winner what would we do without you at the Helms well there's about 15 homes is that your commission yeah what did you do this week for vests one pair of gloves one Bermuda shorts and a returned overcoat but this rayar do better to leave and live on assistants if you don't improve on that you better yeah there's a customer call let me have him by rights as your senior and I should happen but your story has touched my heart so go on you connect everybody so can I help you I'd like a handkerchief please luckily thank you for your custom madam now in this bag we have the scarlet and a fun set consisting of mini bra waspy course it can can pan suspender belt and of course the black stocking and in this bag we have the same in fluorescent green will madam be requiring a bill oh yes for making compaction I usually put my business Oh what sort of business are you in that'll do miss brown though long chance but I that dog looked awfully tired to me expect it does a lot of walking whoo well that's not a bad sale over 60 quid that's just over three pounds Commission that's more than I've done all week oh well when I retire you'll be the senior and then you'll a first crack of the whip but that means wait until you're 60 yeah me nuts be careful oh you add up this almost 30 years now you're flattering me just a teeny bit but you're a bright girl how can I help you how do you sell fur coats yeah well yes we have quite a large ring good as a matter of fact I want two one for my wife and one for a friend I just get my Giulia to get the ring did you hear that he wants to fur coat you can't put a foot wrong can you look I'll tell you what since you've been so nice to me I'll split this sale with you I'll take the Commission on the wives coat and you can have Commission on her friends oh thanks about what price range did you have in mind sir well a my wife's case a biter 200 pies oh what a nice presence can advocate mrs. Slocombe we have to take precautions with luxury merchandise there's a lot of Nick in goes in the region of 200 pounds for the customers wife is it her birthday May when asked and there is scheduled your surprise Oh only the one more gents about the likes of you now this one is a hundred and ninety and simulated mink very nice about what build is madam actually rather like yours stoutish read we call it Juno asked would you try it on from here it miss bronze Oh when a woman puts on a fur coat the years just drop away you know wife skater I have a long way to drop you look a real treat in it mrs. Slocombe there you are an unbiased opinion yes yes I'll take it oh thank you sir sale to me miss bronze your lucky day never mind you get the Commission on the next one now for your wife's friend may I suggest this died Cooney it's specially reduced to forty pounds well actually is not my wife's friend no no no it's for my friend no yeah maybe we have nothing cheaper than that on the country I expect to spend a couple o couple of hundred she must be a very old friend kappa thousand oh she must be very young friend well actually she's my girlfriend about this genuine ranch mink 2,100 very nice would you mind putting it on you have rather similar features of course real mink on a very young girl can look dead common and don't you think you might be better to give this to your wife and the simulate it to your bit of love no how long have you been married 20 years how many children four do you mean to say that poor woman has given you the best years of our life children and all she gets in exchange is this under the 90 quid rabbit that does nothing but wiggler assets on your nightstand minute what about all the time I spend sitting alone waiting for him to get away from you you give me that sob story you think I don't know don't you just because I smile and put a good face on it but it's pure that it look into the faces of my little children I say in together yes but you money for 20 years he's bored with you that's why he comes to me now make him feel young again don't you think you're getting away with this the minute I saw this cheap imitation myself right monkey somebody else I'm cooking five detectives on you one I'm going to my solicitor do your quite light that's it exactly what you say cancel the coat my wife it will give the game away uh I'll just take the coat my miss girlfriend run to town Commission for me no no it isn't we're splitting fifty-fifty the wife gets off the estate so CPU it into the table mr. Granger no lon come on it over here you haven't brought a spoon mr. Granger no get out with your complaining about the noise that I make when I stroll well they know the the soup makes them soggy it's like being on a North Sea oil rig when you strapped wagon onion lockers salt beef gefilte fish and bagels you changing your religion your mother saw Moses on the television house Burt Lancaster looks so fitting manly the diet might do me good the mountain village in Russia where they all live to be hundred and thirty is that read about that they eat a lot of vegetables and put yak butter in their tea and what's more they remain very thorough right up to the end mrs. Grainger drew my attention to that but you stick a pattern marjorine in your minestrone I have it on the subject of the agent I think we ought to turn our thoughts to young mr. Grayson's 80th birthday why do we have to think about it it's our turn Catering did him last year well of course they went too far it should have been obvious that a topless go-go dancer leaping out of a cake would have been a terrible shock of the renovation that was his second heart attack wasn't it first bombers when mr. Lucas phoned up said he was whew Fraser now much did he want for the show I should have known that a scantily clad young girl would have that effect yeah the pity of you volunteer mrs. Slocombe you would have saved him six months in hospital catch me doing that you wouldn't get in the cake this is getting us nowhere what we are looking for is a fitting tribute something lighting victory parade for church children the king what about that telly program where they get somebody famous and they show pictures of them in little short trousers and end up shaking hands were down in the roof I saw that I didn't like you you may have the germ of an idea there yeah we could do here is your shop and show his rise from rag trade to riches yeah but wouldn't it be a lot of work finding all that a house yes and all the other departments would have to come in on it as well why don't we call it here is your department and confine it to the way young mr. grace has affected all our lives and throw in a bit of either his early history as well yeah but how do we find it all out well I know quite a lot mm-hmm I met him one day in 1926 on a bus well when his car had broken down oh yeah I can see it all now does this voice mean anything to you fares please yes you're right that is the very actual conductor here he is 127 years old we've flown him in especially from a tribe in a little village in Russia areas being veera all over the place where yeah yes well I hardly think we have those travel facilities at our command here I couldn't help overhearing your conversation seeing this Alban listening to every word put your mind at rest at your troubles our end because for the last two years he's been writing his memoirs how do you know that Hartmann I've been helping him may come up by the side of his desk or someone's got to do his nickel oh don't look at me I mean but I can be counted on to help you out of any undercover operation I thought you were supposed to be the one undercover hey omits grace okay it's Tom and you forgot the biscuit Oh was that your hand mr. grace doing what pinching my bottom yeah good good well start mr. grace towards the lift in one minute ah everything said at your end peacock definitely sir mr. Lucas obtained young mr. Grace's memoirs about four days ago and he tells me that he's managed to unearth some magnificent background material with particular emphasis on the way young mr. grace has affected the lives of the members of this department well young mr. grace will be coming up on the bargain-basement good and mr. Lucas is set up in the boardroom to surprise him so we'd better get up there with all speed because then we can be ready to come in move in idiot right is it working running okay right I'm standing in the boardroom of grace brothers store that well-known department store now any minute now coming through that door there is a man who has no inkling at all of the trip you that's about to be paid Liberty hey wait or not limited Christ's progress Liberty well never mind that is it running oh yeah well shut up then I mean we got getting this tape afterwards we yeah Oh Oh mr. almond animator will ship that man he thinks that he's coming up here to interview this new secretary Helius I'm going to hide myself behind the screen now and we'll see what happens here is your new secretary leave it sir that yeah you look pretty little thing aren't you well my shorthand speed is 120 and my typing is 60 yeah very good uh never mind about that love what are your measurements 38 22 36 you've got the job Oh mr. grace I'm sorry to disappoint you but this is not a real secretary at all now this girl was just a decoy brought here for one reason only blackmail boudoir mr. Gray's so that we can pay a tribute to you of your achievements mr. grace here is your department don't worry you slot that television show where they show some famous person starts off wearing short trousers and end up shaking hands we've done either room oh that didn't like it our story begins in a humble backstreet in the East End of London in the year 1897 here lived Henry Grace and his wife Ethel devoted couple was born a bouncing baby boy whoa born of a long line of cobblers destiny had ordained a different fate for this wheat land not for him the Cobblers lost now he was impatient to get away from his environment not surprised there's fur rugs tickle something awful and from this humble home he went to this humble school now standing there and standing there as that pinch faced perch in there mr. Gray's now what thoughts were passing through your mouth did you have any idea that one day you'd become a millionaire well now the price is said best and I'll just feed in the trousers yeah no doubt no little did you know what an important part roses we're going to play at your life but that is still in the future leaving your school you obtained a job which straight away made you stand apart from your fellow man yes you became an apprentice a duck filter it would make it a standard farm all day long you meal did your filling knife and would you believe it mr. Gray's we have found in grace brothers kitchen this very not which is almost identical to something very simple heiress job B now a friend used to call me fish fingers but some of those fish fingers were to be pushing your very own fish back and little did you know that in Folkestone where some of that fish probably came from a pram was being pushed along are not so very different streets and in that pram was none other than mr. Ernest Granger small well here is a picture of that very pram with that very Granger in it and here believe it or not to greet you in person all the way from the first floor is mr. Ernest Granger it was really easy one does it matter now don't know she'll understand I believe mr. Granger you have an amusing anecdote to tell about mr. grace indeed I have yes it was a 1926 I remember I boarded a number 11 bus and I sat down and who should I see sitting next to me but you you've guessed it he was young it's a great father well I I was embarrassed yet I'm off duty I was only a junior and I wondered if I spoke if he would think I was being forward but I needn't worry no you know he looked at me and he said good morning and that's the kind of many more thank you mr. Ernest Craig that was very touching mr. Granger but we have jumped ahead in our story now Lowe sooner have you established yourself as an itinerant purveyor of fileted fish when the war clouds gather without hesitation you answer your country's call we can hang about in that day hesitation you answer your country's call and you give up your fish stall and for four long years you manufacture tin pilchards for the troops now by an amazing coincidence and after a lot of research we have discovered being served in this very canteen though st. in Belgium mice not what not until you the army bought a lot of those in the last war - and also by a coincidence there is here mr. gray somebody this evening who was also in that army who might very well have eaten those very same pill Cheers yes corporal later to become captain Steven peacock I believe captain peacock has an amusing anecdotes oh yes indeed I have yes I will recall one cruel January morning I just missed my bus and I was standing there blowing into my gloves to bring the circulation back to my hands with a large rolls-royce drop beside me the door opened and there sat young mr. gray speckling to me forwarding my place in the queue I went across to him don't worry he said there'll be another one along in a minute with a chilly wave he slammed the door and drove off that's how I can always remember mr. grace never too busy to stop and give a word at hoping it coming man you captain Steven people we are ahead of our store we left you in 1980 still canning Pilcher and for eight long years you tried your hand at this that and quite a bit of the other and until your hard work and determination and your will to succeed finally paid off yes a remote uncle left you grace brothers in his will that was in the year 1926 by a coincidence almost beyond belief this very same actual year mark the birth of none other than Rachel diddle I see surprise of the Wildeve chaser there perhaps this photograph will help yes you guessed it miss Rachel little later to become mrs. Slocombe mr. grace does this voice remind you of anything I've pressed everything inside and I still can't make it go up or down heaven penned a young secretary I did 56 of you Oh mr. grace no it's the voice of Shirley Browns and here she is however if you both have an amusing anecdote attend indeed we have there was me and Miss Brahms with young mr. grace in this lift and it got Chuck FASST yes I pressed all the buttons and I still couldn't shift it I Malcolm so frightened and would you believe it young mr. grace coddled her for half an hour well I shout it for ell and when the engineers finally arrived to rescue us he was as cool as a cucumber don't worry about me he said save mrs. Slocombe and then come back for me in the bed later and that's the sort of man he is Thank You Shirley Brahms and Rachel yet so as you can see mr. Gray's the long arm of coincidence has always played a great part in your life but we can't go we can't leave without one final coincidence that'll be down in the room does this voice mean anything to you I'm free glad with the funny walk right right first time it's a grace you guess t-that hearing is the master of the snugfit mr. Wilberforce Claybourne Humphrey I won't kiss you got a bit of a cold now I believe you've got an amusing anecdote to tell mr. Humphries about mr. graces ability to make a quick decision no I have when I first came here for a job I went into mr. Grace's office and I said my name is Humphries I'm young and I'm willing mr. gray stood up he raised his hand is it mr. Humphries say no more we don't want your sort here nevertheless five days later you were employed by grace brothers and only mr. grace knows the reason for that change of mine well it was because of someone who was very dear to you probably the greatest friend you ever had and you know who that was Oh oh no it couldn't be him they never give him a day off from lillywhites no well then let's have a look at this picture and let it remind you oh it's mother indeed let her tell her story in her own world it's not brother here is a day for bingo hello mr. grace I'm sorry I can't be with you it's my day for bingo I shall never forget the time my little lad came back from his interview at grace brothers although he stuck his chin out and he didn't cry he was heartbroken mothers can tell you know later that night a cleat in on him their hairy balls clutching his teddy bear tears on his cheeks he cried himself to sleep the following day he was busy with his crochet work and I sneaked out and I came to see you mr. gray I threw myself down on my knees in front of your desk and I said look at me you're looking at a mother with a broken heart you didn't good kind boy oh she's right lucky he'd bend over backwards to help any give him a chance that's it then you smiled at me overhearing well don't get your knickers in a twist you see give him a try you know I was so grateful I threw my arms round your neck and I kissed you you did and the rest is history once you came under mr. graces and you never look back in fact none of us ever looked back mr. grace sir what about me well I expect you were too boring mr. grace here is your dip ha you

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Keywords: Are, You, Being, Served, Founders, Day

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Length: 28min 52sec (1732 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 12 2012