Mollie Sugden as the Coronation Street gossip Nellie Harvey, some time in the 1960sPhotograph: ITV/Rex FeaturesSugden in Bootsie and Snudge (1961), a hugely popular spinoff from ITV's sitcom The Army GamePhotograph: ITV/Rex FeaturesA 1975 shot of Sugden in her most famous role: Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?Photograph: BBC/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
1976: with Dick Emery on The Dick Emery ShowPhotograph: BBC/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar1977: The full gang – Arthur Brough, Mollie Sugden, Wendy Richard, Frank Thornton, John Inman, Trevor Bannister and Nicholas Smith – in the film version of Are You Being Served?Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/AllstarSugden in 1979Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images1981: with Christopher Blake in That's My BoyPhotograph: ITV/Rex Features1983: Mollie Sugden and Wendy Richards in Are You Being Served?Photograph: BBC/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar1985: Sugden in That's My BoyPhotograph: ITV/Rex Features1988: Mollie Sugden and husband William Moore at homePhotograph: Ipc Magazines: Chat/Rex Features1992: Sugden in a photocall at Chavenage House, Gloucestershire, for the short-lived Are You Being Served? spinoff Grace And FavourPhotograph: Tim Rooke/Rex FeaturesSugden in 1999Photograph: Paul McFegan/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar
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