Stage production of BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? at the Winter Gardens Theatre, Blackpool for the summer season of 1976 from June till October.

The stage show was written by the television shows' writers David Croft & Jeremy Lloyd. Original television cast members Mollie Sugden (Mrs Slocombe), John Inman (Mr Humphries), Frank Thornton (Captain Peacock), Wendy Richard (Miss Brahms) and Nicholas Smith (Mr Rumbold) starred in the stage version but other cast members were unavailable and so the characters of Mr Grainger, Mr Lucas and Mr Mash were recast and played by Larry Noble, Michael Mundell and Stuart Sherwin respectively in place of Arthur Brough, Trevor Bannister and Larry Martyn.

The plot of the play saw the Grace Brothers department staff jetting off to Spain on a holiday and getting caught up in a revolution at their hotel. Due to the success of this play the writers reused the stage show plot for the AYBS? feature film the following year with a few changes; Trevor Bannister & Arthur Brough returned for the film but by then Mr Mash had been replaced by Arthur English's Mr Harmon in the series and film and has more to do in the film than in the play, and Young Mr Grace didn't appear in the stage show at all but was slotted into the end of the film. Also, the pre-holiday store bit in the film with the Arab Sheikh was adapted from the TV episode Fire Practice with the Arabs measured for trousers with balloons whereas in the stage version they adapted scenes from the TV episode German Week, to tie in with the German holidaymakers in Spain.

Raymond Bowers, who plays revolutionary Cesar in the stage play, would also go on to appear briefly in the film version as the hairdresser doing Mr Humphries' mum's wig. He also appeared as store customers in the TV series three times. In the film version his role of Cesar is given to more established film name Glyn Houston.

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The stage play has been revived by a few amateur productions in the years since.

My programme here is signed by cast members John Inman, Frank Thornton, Nicholas Smith, and Larry Noble (Mr Grainger) but not, for some reason, by the ladies Mollie and Wendy...