Hoorah for the Holidays

The staff of Grace Brothers are discussing their holiday plans when Mr Rumbold announces that the entire clothing department will shut for the first two weeks of August.

The staff will have to taken their fortnight holiday at the same time and will given an extra five pounds.

The staff are adamant that this is miserly payment for going on holiday in peak season.

Later Mr Rumbold goes through the holiday packages on offer by Grace Brothers Tours. The packages on offer is underwhelming.

It is clear that the menswear department is not very good with their made to measure suits. The poor customer played by John Clegg was in such an ill fitting suit.

The boardroom scene with the proposed holidays seem to go on forever. It was like being in the departure gate and then told your flight has been delayed for several hours.

The basic plot was later used for the theatrical spin off movie.

The management at Grace Brothers want to carry out essential store maintenance, shutting the store for a fortnight in August, messing up the staff's holidays.

It's a classic episode, the film feels loosely based on this one, where they embark on a trip to the Costa Plonka.

It's nice to see the team present a united front against the management, and it's nice to see more of young Mr Grace. We also get a history about Grace Brothers.

Some hilarious scenes, the dressing gown and Irish woman scene is one of the funniest. In these early days the jokes generally revolved around the customers and funny scenes about customer service, it was much more down to Earth and sincere in this series.

Classic. 9/10