In Are You Being Served sequel Grace and Favour, Grace Brothers closes and the staff finds that their pension money was used by Young Mr. Grace to buy the run-down Millstone Manor house. Young Mr. Grace has now passed away from a heart attack brought on by his nurse, Miss Lovelock, so the house has been made into a hotel run by Mr. Rumbold. The staff has no option but to try and run it themselves.
Getting a new hotel up and running proves to be a much more difficult task than the ex-shopworkers had originally expected of course.
They are helped (or hindered) by the caretaker, Maurice Moulterd (Billy Burden) and his daughter Mavis (Fleur Bennett).
Grace and Favour was made seven years after the end of Are You Being Served but most of the major characters returned. Although the location had changed nothing else had.
The real life Millstone Manor was Chavenage House in Gloucestershire.
The series was known as Are You Being Served Again in the US.
production details
UK / BBC One / 12×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 10 January 1992 – 8 February 1993
Writers: Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft / Producer and Director: Mike Stephens
cast
Mollie Sugden as Mrs Slocombe
Frank Thornton as Captain Stephen Peacock RASC (Ex)
John Inman as Mr Humphries
Wendy Richard as Miss Brahms
Nicholas Smith as Mr Cuthbert Rumbold
Joanne Heywood as Jessica Lovelock
Billy Burden as Maurice Moulterd
Fleur Bennett as Mavis Moulterd
Shirley Cheriton as Miss Prescott
Michael Bilton as Mr Thorpe
