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GLAMOUR model turned crime writer Clare Dunkel has died aged 59.
The actress and Miss Nude 1982, who starred in classic British comedies like Are You Being Served? and The Two Ronnies, passed away from motor neurone disease (MND) on July 27.
Clare shot to fame as a page three girl in the seventies, going by the name Candy Davis.
She went on to become a bestselling author who was known as a "connoisseur of corpses".
Clare, who wrote under the name Mo Hayder, published 10 novels and sold 6.5 million copies worldwide.
The novelist - dubbed the "queen of fear" - said she had a "obsession" with blood spattered murder scenes and describing violence in gory detail.
"Everybody’s fascinated by gore really, aren’t they?" she once said.
"Two hundred years ago, we’d all have been going down to the gallows — and anyway I think it’s bad for people to suppress their dark side; it only gets more intense."
Clare married actor Gary Olsen in 1985, but the couple divorced five years later.
She then moved to Japan to live an "isolated" life.
"I think I was torturing myself, a kind of self-punishment for all those years of not really getting my act together," she told The Times.
Throughout her career she appeared as Miss Exotica Stormtrooper in The Two Ronnies, Miss Belfridge in Are You Being Served, and in The Benny Hill Show.
Clare was diagnosed with MND in December but it "progressed at an alarming rate" and she died last month from the illness.
She is survived by her daughter, Lotte, and her husband, Bob.
Fellow authors paid tribute to the writer, who they described as "incredibly different".
Crime fiction writer Mark Billingham said: "Crime/horror mash-up is quite an established thing now, but there were very few people working in that genre when Mo came along.
"She just had this ability to put images in your head that would not go away.
"There are some, especially from The Treatment, which are still in my head 20 years later. Her books are properly frightening and properly disturbing."
Her agent Jane Gregory of David Higham Associates said Clare was "a brilliant writer and a wonderful, extraordinary, unique human being".
Motor neurone disease is a rare condition.
About two in every 100,000 Brits develop it each year.
It affects specialist nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, causing the function of motor neurons to break down.
When this neurodegeneration occurs, everyday activities become increasingly difficult or completely impossible.
Over time, the condition progressively worsens as the muscle weakens and can visibly waste.
The majority of those diagnosed with the disease are given a three-year life expectancy starting from when they first notice the symptoms.
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She had one daughter from a previous relationship named Lotte-Genevieve.

Daughter of an education officer and a school headmistress.

Took part in Miss Nude America in 1982 which she won.

Author of crime novels, using the pseudonym Mo Hayder.

It is really important to push yourself with your fears... I always find the most frightening thing is the unknown. I always say the wolf's footprints are more frightening than the wolf itself. And so that's my way of dealing with fear - [is] to understand it.

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Candy Davis was born on January 2, 1962 in London, England. She was an actress and writer, known for Are You Being Served? (1972), Underworld (1985) and Pig Island . She was married to Bob Randall and Gary Olsen . She died on July 27, 2021 in the UK.

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27 July 2021) (her death)
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1990) (divorced)

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This article is about the original British sitcom. For other uses, see Are You Being Served? (disambiguation) .

Jeremy Lloyd
David Croft
Michael Knowles
John Chapman
Derren Litten (2016)

David Croft
Bernard Thompson
Harold Snoad
Ray Butt
Gordon Elsbury
John Kilby
Martin Shardlow

David Croft
Harold Snoad
Bob Spiers
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Series 8 cast of 1981. ( left to right ): ( top ) Arthur English , Wendy Richard, Benny Lee , Mike Berry ; ( bottom ) Nicholas Smith, Frank Thornton, Mollie Sugden, Vivienne Johnson , John Inman, Kenneth Waller , Louise Burton

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^ "Britain's Best Sitcom – Top 11 to 100" . BBC . Retrieved 7 October 2013 .

^ "Going Down: 'Grace Bros' store closes" . BBC. 1 February 1999.

^ " 'Watford has Clements running through it' " . Watford Observer . Retrieved 12 October 2021 .

^ "Obituary: John Inman" . BBC News . 8 March 2007 . Retrieved 4 October 2015 .

^ Coates, Sam; Asthana, Anushka (9 March 2007). "Obituary – John Inman" . The Times . London.

^ "Vintage British TV: Comedy Playhouse – Are You Being Served? (BBC) 8th September 1972" . Vintagebrittv.blogspot.co.uk. 7 January 2010 . Retrieved 21 April 2014 .

^ "Grace Brothers – Are You Being Served?" . Discogs . Retrieved 8 October 2016 .

^ Collier, Shayne. Again and again and again. The Sydney Morning Herald – The Guide : 2 June 1986, p.1, 6. [1]

^ Semmler, Clement. Why 'Are You Being Served?' is our top-rating program. The Sydney Morning Herald : 25 October 1978, p.8. [2]

^ "Australian TV shows top ratings" . The Canberra Times . 30 December 1978. p. 3 . Retrieved 11 August 2013 – via National Library of Australia.

^ "I'm Free! – The Complete Are You Being Served? ". Orion Books. 1999.

^ Slide, Anthony (1996). Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities (illustrated ed.). Westport , Fairfield County , Connecticut ( United States ): Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 122. ISBN 9780313295508 .

^ "Jason Watkins, Sherrie Hewson and John Challis confirmed for Are You Being Served? reboot" .

^ Slide, Anthony (January 1996). Some Joe You Don't Know: An American Biographical Guide to 100 British Television Personalities . Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-313-29550-8 .

^ "I'm Free! – The Complete Are You Being Served ?". Orion Books. 1999.

^ Rigelsford, Brown, and Tibballs, pp. 181-183

^ Pym, John (1977). "Are You Being Served?". Monthly Film Bulletin . London: British Film Institute . 44 (516).

^ Jump up to: a b "BBC – Are You Being Served? is returning to BBC One – Media Centre" . Retrieved 8 October 2016 .

^ "All-star cast of Are You Being Served? remake spotted arriving for filming at Salford Quays" . Manchester Evening News .

^ Guide, British Comedy (22 February 2016). "New Are You Being Served? cast revealed" . British Comedy Guide . Retrieved 8 October 2016 .

^ "Alf Garnett back as part of BBC sitcom revival" . BBC News . BBC. 10 March 2016 . Retrieved 10 March 2016 .

^ "Are You Being Served? made Mrs Brown's Boys look like Wodehouse – review" . The Daily Telegraph . Archived from the original on 12 January 2022.

^ "Are You Being Served? remake panned by viewers" . Your Local Guardian .

^ Rigelsford, Brown, and Tibballs, pp. 175-179

^ Rigelsford, Brown, and Tibballs, p. 186

^ Rigelsford, Brown, and Tibballs (1995), p. 187

^ Rigelsford, Brown, and Tibballs, pp. 187-188

^ "Zoeken Beeld en Geluid" . zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl . Retrieved 12 October 2021 .

^ "Zoeken Beeld en Geluid" . zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl . Retrieved 12 October 2021 .

^ "Zoeken Beeld en Geluid" . zoeken.beeldengeluid.nl . Retrieved 12 October 2021 .

^ "I'm Free! – The Complete Are You Being Served? ". Orion Books. 1999.

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Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom created and written by executive producer David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes) and Jeremy Lloyd , with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman , for the BBC . [1] Set in London, the show follows the misadventures and mishaps of the staff of the retail ladies' and gentlemen's clothing departments in the flagship department store of a fictional chain called Grace Brothers.

The series was broadcast on the BBC for ten seasons, totalling 69 episodes between 8 September 1972 and 1 April 1985 – and included five Christmas specials. There was also a 1977 film , a spin-off series Grace & Favour with the same main cast in 1991–1992, and a one-off episode with a new cast in 2016. Since its original release, all 69 episodes, the pilot, the Christmas specials, the sequel and the film have been released on DVD.

Are You Being Served? was a success in the UK audience ratings. The series was screened in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the Republic of Ireland, and was aired in the Netherlands and Belgium with Dutch subtitles. The show was also broadcast in Israel and in the United States, where it gained a loyal following when PBS television stations began airing reruns of it in the mid-1980s, along with other British sitcoms. In 2004, it was ranked 20th in a television countdown of Britain's Best Sitcom . [2] It is regularly rebroadcast in the English-speaking world.

The idea for the show came from Lloyd's brief period in the early 1950s working at Simpsons of Piccadilly , a clothing store which traded for over 60 years until its closing in 1999. [3] The inspiration for the store has also been credited to the former Clements of Watford where the concept of the floor walker character Captain Peacock was devised. [4]

The pilot episode was created as part of the Comedy Playhouse series, although the BBC had originally chosen not to broadcast the programme. The pilot was used as a filler during the 1972 Summer Olympics when the coverage of the games was interrupted by the Munich massacre on 8 September 1972, leading to a full series being produced. [5] This first episode was repeated at the beginning of the first series on 14 March 1973. Although the first series was aired in the same timeslot as Coronation Street on ITV , consequently receiving relatively little attention, the repeats shown later in the year were much more successful. [6]

The show became a ratings hit and, after a successful 13-year run, Are You Being Served? came to an end on 1 April 1985.

Of the original cast, only Frank Thornton , Mollie Sugden , John Inman , Wendy Richard and Nicholas Smith appeared in all 69 episodes. The same five later featured in the sequel sitcom, Grace & Favour (also known as Are You Being Served? Again! ). The cast performed in character for a stage sketch on the BBC1 programme Variety on 19 June 1976.

Although the pilot was produced in colour, the videotape was wiped in the 1970s, leaving only a 16mm black-and-white film telerecording , which was made for international syndication to countries where colour television broadcasts had not been adopted. [7] In 2009, the pilot episode was restored to colour using the colour recovery technique previously used for the Dad's Army episode " Room at the Bottom ". The restored colour version was first shown on BBC2 on 1 January 2010 as part of a special Are You Being Served? night. As of 2022, the colour version has yet to be released on DVD or Blu Ray.

Audio samples of Are You Being Served? ( media help )

The theme song, written by the show's co-writer David Croft and composer Ronnie Hazlehurst , consists of an imaginary lift girl , voiced by Stephanie Gathercole, also Mr Rumbold's first secretary, (r.n. Reeve), (1944-2011), announcing each floor over the musique concrète sounds of a cash register (which effectively serves as the only percussion instrument) and a simple musical accompaniment .

The 1977 Are You Being Served? film has a different version of the theme song which is longer, in a different key and without the floor announcements. A remix of the theme was released in 1996 by a dance act calling itself "Grace Brothers", [8] and featured vocal samples of John Inman and Frank Thornton.

There is a homage to the theme song in the Ladytron song "Paco!" from the album 604 , and New Zealand band Minuit 's "I hate guns". A lugubrious version of the theme song is featured on the album The Ape of Naples by the experimental music group Coil . The theme song has also been covered by Australian band Regurgitator on their 1999 album ...art . Pop singer Jamelia 's song "Window Shopping" (from her 2006 album Walk with Me ) begins with a sample of the familiar cash register sound effect as well as Mrs Slocombe's voice inquiring, "Good morning, Mr Grainger; are you free?"

The song was also used in a 2016 Audi advertisement for their Quattro range.

The series was shown in the United States on PBS stations and on BBC America , as well as in many Commonwealth nations around the world. PBS first began airing it (on 24 stations) in 1987, and viewership steadily climbed as more stations carried it. By the early 1990s, it had gained such a loyal following that American viewers of the show formed fan clubs and were in large attendance wherever cast members made guest appearances.

Are You Being Served? aired in Canada in prime time on Global Television Network in the mid 1980s and late night on YTV . The show aired on Saturday evening prime time from the mid 1980s to late 1990s. It was also available to Canadian viewers from most border PBS stations in the United States.

The series was successfully screened in Australia. It began on ABC Television in 1974 and was repeated by ABC in Australia several times. [9] By 1978, the rights to early episodes had been acquired by the commercial Seven Network who gained a larger audience than it had received on the ABC. [10] Are You Being Served? was ranked as the top rated show on Australian television for 1978, being watched by 2,255,000 people in five cities. [11] New episodes were aired on ABC until 1984. After that, the last series was broadcast on the Seven Network .

Are You Being Served? featured humour based on sexual innuendo , misunderstanding, mistaken identity, farce , and occasional slapstick . In addition, there were sight gags generated by outrageous costumes which the characters were someti
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