Mr. Humphries is never elaborated upon. Though Mr. Humphries exhibits many of the behaviors typical of a gay stereotype, his true sexual orientation is never explicitly confirmed in the series. The reticence was a necessity given prevailing attitudes at the time the series was produced: after the first five episodes of "Are You Being Served?", a senior BBC executive ordered David Croft to "Get rid of the poof" from the show – Croft declined, saying: "If the poof goes, I go." Many jokes throw Mr Humphries into heterosexual clinches. At one point he is asked to fill in for Mrs. Slocombe at
Oh, Mr. Toad Oh, Mr. Toad Oh, Mr. Toad was a television spin-off from the 1990s stop motion animation series "The Wind in the Willows". The show was animated by Cosgrove Hall and broadcast on the ITV network. It then became Series 5 of the main series, when it came onto DVD. Despite having a different title, it really differed very little from the previous series, except that every episode focused primarily on Toad, whereas other characters would often have been at the centre of the episodes of "The Wind in the Willows". On their original transmission in the UK, the episodes in