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
The Puppy Episode feed of the episode and rented a 5,000-seat theatre for a viewing party, with about 1,000 people attending. Local activists circulated a petition requesting that Abilene, Texas-area affiliate KTXS-TV not air the episode but were unsuccessful. "The Puppy Episode" was the highest-rated episode ever of "Ellen", drawing some 42 million viewers. "The Puppy Episode" won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series and a second for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing. The episode won a Peabody Award and DeGeneres won a GLAAD Media Award in 1998. Show character Ellen Morgan's coming out has been described as "the