Bingowings said:
To be more honest I'm more upset about the death of Mollie Sugden, she was more of a major player in my childhood and I suppose that's the only way we can respond to celebrity deaths. We never meet these talented people but their work and their media profile creates an illusion of familiarity that can place them almost within our familes, especially now that extended families living in the same area for a lifetime is becoming a vanishingly rare phenomena.

Finding out what Gary Glitter was up to felt like finding out that a percieved eccentric uncle had committed a terrible crime, compounding the horror of what he did with a deep seated personal feeling of disappointment.

Now I can't ask how Mrs. Slocombe's pussy is without tearing up. Seriously, "Are You Being Served?" was the best comedy ever.