Tag: Jeremy Lloyd

I’m Free! The Complete Are You Being Served?

I’m Free! The Complete Are You Being Served?

by Richard Webber with David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd (Orion, 1998)

Book cover: “I’m Free! The Complete Are You Being Served?” by Richard Webber with David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd (Orion, 1998)

A paean to the long-running sitcom, complete with actor profiles and episode summaries. There is nothing incisive about the text—any criticism of the programme is brushed over; nobody has anything bad to say—but the photos sprinkled throughout conjure gentle nostalgia.

‘Allo ‘Allo! (Series 1 & 2)

‘Allo ‘Allo! (Series 1 & 2)

by Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft (BBC 1984-1985)

Lloyd & Croft_Allo Allo 1 & 2

Repetitive, formulaic (think Get Smart) yet often uproarious, the convoluted tribulations of a café-owner in German-occupied France rose to long-running comedic heights thanks to the incomparable Gordon Kaye (as René Artois) and the premise of rendering all languages as badly accented English.