Grace & Favour Dvd-rip - complete series - 12 episodes

Grace & Favour plotline:

The new series has the elderly and womanizing Young Mr. Grace, head of Grace Brothers Department Store, recently deceased. He has died while scuba-diving on holiday in the Caribbean with his personal secretary, Miss Jessica Lovelock. As per the instructions in his will, the remaining workers at Grace Brothers' closing sale (coincidentally, most of the staff who were present in the original series) are named co-beneficiaries in his will.

Young Mr. Grace has invested their pension funds in a multitude of antiquated businesses, the largest of which is a country manor house called Millstone Manor. The will stipulates that they can't sell the house and split the profits, but can use the property in the manner of their choosing. After a trip to Millstone Manor to view the property, where they also learn their pensions are minuscule, they decide to live in the manor in order to run it as an inn and live off the proceeds. Miss Lovelock, given accommodations in the grooms quarters and charge of the horses, also lives at the manor much to the distress of Mrs. Slocombe and Miss Brahms. Captain Peacock is not so distressed, however.

The series begins just after the funeral of Mr. Grace, and quickly brings the cast to Millstone Manor. There they find Mr. Rumbold having trouble trying to find new staff after telling the previous staff "in no uncertain terms" that if they didn't straighten up they could leave...and they left. With time running out, the old Grace Brothers employees are obligated to "stand in" for the staff in order to have their picture taken as the inn staff for a travel brochure. Soon they find that they are running the inn themselves with the help of Mr. Moulterd, who manages the manor's farm, and his daughter Mavis, who helps out at the manor.

With Mr. Humphries forced by circumstance to share a bed with Mavis, he finds that she develops a bit of a crush on him. This series of events leads all of the cast to assume they are having an affair, which flatters Mr. Humphries, though he denies any such goings-on. Despite these events, Mr. Humphries continues to be rather ambivalent to the idea of a relationship with anyone. A young man from the village vies with Humphries for Mavis' affection, and frequently attempts to intimidate him by threatening him with violence.

On her first day in the country, Mrs. Slocombe tries to move a gypsy's wagon that blocked the road and ends up charged with wagon theft, narrowly avoiding a charge of indecent exposure since there was "just a flash" as the out-of-control wagon raced past the post office. At her trial, all of her colleagues are called as witnesses, but it's Mr. Moulterd who ends up winning the case for her. Mrs Slocombe is grateful, despite her irritation that he brings up their sexual relationship during the War, which she insists never happened. Also notable, is the unexpected appearance of the oft alluded to, but never-before-seen Mr. Slocombe, from whom Mrs. Slocombe seeks to hide her identity.

* Mollie Sugden - Mrs. Betty Slocombe
* John Inman - Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries
* Wendy Richard - Miss Shirley Brahms
* Frank Thornton - Captain Stephen Peacock
* Nicholas Smith - Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold
* Fleur Bennett - Mavis Moulterd
* Joanne Heywood - Jessica Lovelock
* Billy Burden - Maurice Moulterd
* Michael Bilton - Mr. Thorpe
* Shirley Cheriton - Miss Prescott
* Gregory Cox - Mr. Frobisher
* Andrew Barclay - Malcolm Heathcliff
* Diane Holland - Celia Littlewood
* Andy Joseph - Joseph Lee
* Eric Dodson - Sir Robert
* Maggie Holland - Mrs. Cleghampton

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