John Inman played Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served A comedy historian given the task of choosing his top 20 sitcom catchphrases has plumped for the camp classic "I'm free", uttered by Mr Humphries ...

Certainly Mr Humphries seemed happier than the straight characters on Grace Brothers. When in 2000 I wrote my book Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy: Growing up in Front of the Telly, I recalled how in one ...