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The funny thing about that is my daughter in law is Indian and she watch that and found it hilarious. She loved it.The episode with Gupta kills me when Arkwright flogs him the clothes horses when he says Ye Gods what is it a pre-fabricated chicken coup and then he asks if they can deliver . Arkwright says yes , Granville get on your Troika . Throughout the episode the lines Roy Clarke wrote are just the best . Sadly there are elements which whilst comic could be deemed racist. When it was broadcast I don't remember any furore about it but in today's world there probably would be , though closeted away on UK Gold I doubt many new viewers would be watching likely to be fans of the show .
I've been in a few newsagents & off licences in shall we say some of the more 'livelier' parts of Liverpool as a pal of mine was at Uni there. Some of them are like museum exhibits, you walk into what is like a glass cage, so you can see the provisions on the other side of the glass and the shop keeper has to get what you point to. I hasten to add I don't mean to be disrespectful to anyone from Liverpool as I'm sure these sort of shops can be found in other parts of the UK.Well due to the shoplifting habits of some ne'er do wells, here across the pond; some stores have moved back in time, so to speak and now sell most of their goods, behind the counter aka the Arkwright model. Now all they need is a shopkeeper with a serious stammer.