Trivia for
"Are You Being Served?" Pilot (1972)

• The original pilot was recorded on colour videotape as part of the "Comedy Playhouse" (1961) series and had a "BBC Colour" credit at the end. However the original videotape was lost or wiped, so for years the only known copy of the episode was a black-and-white film-recording. In 2008 however, technical engineers restored the edition to full colour by utilising the colour signal information recorded into the monochrome film print.
  
  
• Originally transmitted unexpectedly during the 1972 Munich Olympics when the BBC needed replacement programming following the massacre of Israeli Athletes by a Palestinian terrorist group.
  
  
• This pilot episode was originally shown as an episode of "Comedy Playhouse" (1961), a series of self-contained situation comedy plays.
  
  

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