Are You Being Served?

This is a very popular sitcom from the 70s. A parody of the British class system, it takes place in a department store, where everybody is hierarchically related to the other, from the company owner through the manager, the floor walker and seniors all the way to junior staff, and everybody is guarding what he/she thinks is a privilege due to their standing, be it ever so ridiculously minor a detail. In this episode that I am posting, the staff has to act in a commercial so that the stingy management could save money on hiring the more expensive professionals. In the second part of the episode, "It Pays To Advertise", every staff member has an opportunity to show their talents in roles they think they ought to play well, to in fact realise that their trust in their own performance was not completely well-founded... The moment when lovable old bartender Henry's courtesy is forcibly reduced to a more than lovable laugh, I have myself been overcome by hysteric laughter... Lovable old bartender Henry's (Arthur Brough) last appearance before his death not much later.