When Are You Being Served? was turned into a film in 1977, the cast decamped to the downmarket Spanish resort of Costa Plonka. As Roger Lewis points out on page 15, the comedy didn’t quite survive the journey to the big screen – as it didn’t in the films of Porridge and Morecambe and Wise.
For the second film, the cast descends on the much posher Villa des Colombes, injecting even the tiniest gesture with knowing, comic grace) has unexpectedly inherited the villa from a French friend of her youth.
