Mollie Sugden from "Are You Being Served?" has passed away at 86.
Mollie Sugden from "Are You Being Served?" has passed away at 86.
#1Mollie Sugden from "Are You Being Served?" has passed away at 86.
Posted: 7/1/09 at 3:49pm
Mrs. Slocombe. Plus she was the subject of a running gag on the first series of "Little Britain."
I loved her, the crazy-colored hair, and her pu$$y jokes.
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#2re: Mollie Sugden from 'Are You Being Served?' has passed away at 86.
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:00pm
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#2re: Mollie Sugden from 'Are You Being Served?' has passed away at 86.
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:05pmI will miss her.
#3re: Mollie Sugden from 'Are You Being Served?' has passed away at 86.
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:06pm
The excerpts on the BBC site finish with one of her other roles, where she played an outrageous snob long before Patricia Routledge took the mantle.
"Sandra darling, do get Mrs Boswell a glass..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8129617.stm
#4RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:06pm
Imagine that! Michael Jackson, Karl Malden, Farrah, Billy Mays and Mrs. Slocombe...all lined up at the pearly gates. St. Peter will have a ball. (wonder if her **** is still alive) yes, the other name for a cat!
Wikipedia Info. too!
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:12pmSorry to hear this. She was a brilliant battleaxe in an excellent ensemble.
#6RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:16pm
She's definitely "going up"...
RIP
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#7RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:35pmAt least Capt. Peacock and Mr. Lucas are still around.
#8RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 4:50pmAnd now Harve Presnell? It's uncanny.
Hiram
Featured Actor Joined: 12/16/06
#9RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 5:23pmI adored this brilliantly talented woman. Rest in peace, dear lady.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#10RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 5:40pmAre You Being Served? was one of my favorite shows. This is very sad news. RIP.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#11RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 5:54pm
A fearless--and peerless-comedienne.
And I am unanimous in that.
#12RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 5:59pm
Very sad news 
I will watch some Are You Being Served shows tonight.
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#13RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 7:05pm
I am so sorry to hear this. I adore her. I love the episode when she talks on a cb radio and runs a trucker off the road.
Wonderful actress.
#14RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/1/09 at 11:19pmThis is so sad, I still watch almost every week. I also didn't know that Wendy Richards died earlier this year. All the deaths this past week or so are starting to scare me.
#15RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/2/09 at 1:30am
Wow she was only 86, for some reason I always thought that she was older than that, maybe it has something to do with me watching the show about 30 years ago.
May she rest in peace...
#16RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/2/09 at 12:24pm
A tribute to Mrs. Slocombe's Pu$$y.
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#17RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/2/09 at 7:27pm
To British TV viewers she is just as well known for her part in "The Liver Birds" a sixties and seventies comedy about two swinging chicks fleeing the nest in 60's Liverpool. She played the upright mum of one of the girls - so classy and well worth a look even now if you can find a link.
I met her once - lovely woman, may she rest in peace.
Updated On: 7/2/09 at 07:27 PM
#18RIP Mrs. Slocombe
Posted: 7/3/09 at 10:13am
An interesting tidbit from the NY Times obit:
"'Are You Being Served?' was made in 1972 as a one-shot segment of another series, 'Comedy Playhouse,' but when the killing of several Israeli athletes sent the 1972 Summer Olympics into chaos, the BBC, faced with hours of empty air time, rushed the series onto its schedule. There it stayed for more than a decade."
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