Are You Being Served? format was exhausted, it was suggested the characters could be moved to a new location. In 1992, most of the original cast reunited for "Grace & Favour" (known as "Are You Being Served Again!" in the United States and Canada). The new series followed the characters after Young Mr. Grace's death, when they are forced to run a hotel in a dilapidated manor house that was purchased using their pension fund. "Grace & Favour" ran for two series. In October 1976, a stage adaptation of "Are You Being Served?" ran at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool. Directed by Robert Redfarn,
Are You Being Served? known as "Are You Being Served? Again!"). The cast performed in character for a stage sketch on the BBC1 programme "Variety" on 19 June 1976. Although the pilot was produced in colour, the videotape was wiped in the 1970s leaving only a 16mm black-and-white film telerecording, which was made for international syndication to countries where colour television broadcasts had not been adopted. In 2009, the pilot episode was restored to colour using the colour recovery technique previously used for the "Dad's Army" episode "Room at the Bottom". The restored colour version was first shown on BBC2 on 1 January 2010