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Calling All Customers

Season 9, Episode 4, Aired May 13, 1983

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The staff performs a play on CB radio to advertise Grace Brothers. The play results in the store being swamped by truck drivers who are driven off by Mr. Humphries and Mrs. Slocombe.

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Nosher Powell

Truck Driver
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Ron Tarr

Truck Driver
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Vicki Michelle

CB Voice

John Inman

Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries (1972-1985)
Mollie Sugden

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth "Betty" Slocombe (1972-1985)
Frank Thornton

Captain Stephen Peacock
Wendy Richard

Miss Shirley Brahms (1972-1985)
Mike Berry

Mr. Bert Spooner (1981-1985)
Arthur English

Mr. Beverley Harman (1976-1985)

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QUOTES (2)
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- Mr Rumbold: Captain Peacock, if this department closes down, what will you do?
  
  Captain Peacock: Probably salute.
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- Mr Humphries: That was an articulated lorry driver.
  
  Miss Brahms: I thought he spoke well.
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- Vicki Michelle turns up in a later David Croft production, Allo Allo, as Yvette, the waitress.
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- Robbie Coltrane, who would later play Hagrid in the "Harry Potter" films, can be heard as the Scottish trucker who crashes his truck while talking to Mrs. Slocombe on the CB.
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- The title of this episode has a dual allusion. There was a popular radio show that was aired between 1933 and 1939 titled, "Calling All Cars." Additionally, the phrase "calling all cars" was used regularly on a TV series titled, "Car 54."
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