Plot

The staff of Grace Bros. take a trip to Costa Plonka while the department is being remodeled.

When Grace Brothers closes for redecoration, Young Mr. Grace send the staff on holiday to Costa Plonka, where they find themselves in the middle of a revolution.—Christopher Rothbauer <kg9it@qsl.net>

In this feature film version of the popular BBC sitcom, set between Series 5 and 6, the wacky staff of Grace Brothers clothing store in Greater London deal with more zany comic situations and customers. The head staff are comprised of:

Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries (John Inman), the senior sales assistant on the men's counter, expansive of personality and sexually ambivalent.

Mrs. Betty Slocombe (Mollie Sudgen), the head of the ladies department. She maintains an exaggeratedly dignified demeanor, but can easily become pugnacious in a crisis.

"Captain" Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton), the icy floorwalker at Grace Brothers who fancies himself a ladies' man, and frequently makes himself ridiculous in his attempts to be seductive.

Mr. Dick Lucas (Trevor Bannister) is the disorganized junior of the men's department who is quietly looked down upon by the other staff members. He has a seemingly insatiable tendency to make fun of his co-workers, and irritates Mrs. Slocombe especially.

Miss Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard), is the young and Cockney junior of the ladies' department and Mrs. Slocombe's best friend. She is the most sensible person in her workplace, a fact of which she is irritably aware.

Mr. Ernest Grainger (Arthur Brough), the head of the men's department and the oldest member of the staff. He has a kind heart, but tends to be cranky, forgetful, and perpetually ready to fall asleep.

Nicholas Smith as Mr. Cuthbert "Jug Ears" Rumbold (Nicholas Smith) is the officious manager of the floor. He is constantly mocked because of his bald head and big ears.

Young Mr. Grace (Harold Bennett) is the decrepit and quietly debauched head of Grace Brothers department store.

Mr. Beverley Harman (Arthur English) is the head of the packing department. Coarse of personality, he is clever enough to secure better treatment for himself than any of his nominal superiors.

On this particular day, Mr. Humphries is taking advantage of a staff discount on a blue rinse in the hairdressing department. At the same time, Mr. Harman is demonstrating a new inflatable bikini to Miss Brahms and Mrs. Slocombe.

Mr. Lucas is chastised by Cpt. Peacock for being late again.

As Grace Brothers is being redecorated, the management sends the staff on a paid holiday to the resort of Costa Plonka, on the Spanish coast. On the first night they think they are allocated seven "penthouses" but it is in fact "tent-houses" outside the hotel.

Also introduced at the Costa Plonka is Conchita (Karan David), a young waitress who works at the hotel restaurant and whom is lusted after several of the male guests. However, Conchita is smitten with Mr. Humphries (whom she makes intensely uncomfortable).

Don Carlos Bernardo (Andrew Sachs) is the Costa Plonka resort owner whom is actually an unwilling accomplice of a group of terrorists led by Cesar Rodriguez (Glyn Houston) whom develops a crush on Mrs. Slocomb.

After various misfortunes and misunderstandings, the crew narrowly survive a gunfight between the revolutionaries and government troops. They are saved by a group of tanks that arrive on the scene; these prove to have been commandeered by Young Mr. Grace, who wanted to visit his beleaguered underlings, but could not find a taxi.