Mavis Pugh appeared in two other "Are You Being Served?" episodes, "Take-over" and "The Club", both as different characters. In 1979, Pugh played Mrs Chase in the "Fawlty Towers" episode "The Kipper and the Corpse". Pugh had small parts in two films, "The Class of Miss MacMichael" in 1978 and "Brothers and Sisters" in 1980. Pugh appeared in two episodes of "Hi-de-Hi!" as The Hon. Winifred Dempster, the aunt of camp entertainments manager Clive Dempster - the 1986 episode "God Bless Our Family" (Series 8) and the 1988 episode "Wedding Bells" (Series 9). From 1987 to 1988, she played Mrs Barrable in
Tales from the Crypt (TV series) episodes which revolved around British characters. Each episode begins with a tracking shot leading to the front door of the Crypt Keeper's decrepit mansion. Once inside, the camera pans down from the foyer to the hallways and stairways, and finally descends into the basement. The show's host, the Crypt Keeper, then pops out from his coffin, cackling wildly; finally, green slime pours down over the screen as the main title appears. The Crypt Keeper is an animated corpse, as opposed to the original comics in which he was a living human being. The wisecracking Crypt Keeper (performed by puppeteers like