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Open All Hours
1976 - 1985 7.9 (54 votes) 4 Seasons
Genres
Comedy
Networks
BBC One
Created By
Roy Clarke

Open All Hours

Overview

Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy.

Key Crew

Producer: Sydney Lotterby, James Gilbert

Top Cast

Ronnie Barker
Ronnie Barker

David Jason
David Jason

Granville

Barbara Flynn
Barbara Flynn

Lynda Baron
Lynda Baron

Shirley Steedman

Maggie Ollerenshaw
Maggie Ollerenshaw

Stephanie Cole
Stephanie Cole

Seasons

Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1981)

No overview available.

7 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Laundry Blues
1981-03-01

Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, having seen Granville struggling with the washing, tells Arkwright that he must buy a new washing machine. Arkwright has to come up with a plan so that she thinks he has done as she requests. He gets Neville to drop off a new machine, sneak round the back of the shop and take it away again, leaving behind a second-hand machine instead!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: The Reluctant Traveller
1981-03-08

Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Arkwright are finally going to spend the night away at a hotel. Little does she know that the hotel is round the block! Whilst they are away, Granville is entertaining the milk-woman. Arkwright also has a problem with an over-tight money belt!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls
1981-03-18

Arkwright once again is struggling to sell goods that no-one wants to buy. He therefore tries a special promotion to get rid of the goods, namely fig biscuits and toilet rolls with messages printed on them.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The New Suit
1981-03-22

Arkwright has to buy a new suit - on Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's say so.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Arkwright's Mobile Store
1981-03-29

In a bid to prove to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel that he means to expand his business, he buys a van so that Arkwright's Stores can have a mobile store.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Shedding At The Wedding
1981-04-05

Arkwright goes to a wedding with Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. His suit smells of mothballs and he has to hang his trousers out of Gladys' car to air them. After his trousers are blown away and run over by a tractor, he has to borrow her trousers!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: St. Albert's Day
1981-04-19

Arkwright invents a Saint's day so that Granville can check the pockets of a foreign visitor who he suspects of shoplifting.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1985)

No overview available.

6 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Soulmate Wanted
1985-09-01

Granville advertises for female company and ends up with more than he can handle.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Horse-Trading
1985-09-08

Arkwright smugly offloads a lot of clothes-horses to an rival Asian shopkeeper. However, when his rival starts making large profits using the clothes-horses as bait for customers, he makes Granville dress up as an Asian woman so that he can buy the clothes-horses back.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: The Housekeeper Caper
1985-09-15

Arkwright decides that to make Nurse Gladys Emmanuel jealous, he will advertise in the local paper for a live-in housekeeper. Unfortunately he is not prepared for Mrs Delphine Featherstone applying for the position!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: The Errand Boy Executive
1985-09-22

Granville takes a fancy to Stephanie (""with a p-h"") who works in a boutique. He pretends that he is a young executive and that Arkwright is his assistant. Needless to say, Arkwright does not agree with this role-reversal.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Happy Birthday Arkwright
1985-09-29

Arkwright is on the alert after Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Granville tell him that a man from the ""Good Shop Guide"" is visiting shops in the area. It is only a ruse by Granville and Nurse Gladys to teach Arkwright a lesson in good manners. Nurse Gladys dresses up as a man and is on the receiving end of some very polite behaviour from Arkwright.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Mystical Boudoir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
1985-10-06

Arkwright tries all manner of things in order to get himself into Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's bedroom, including the use of a ladder and a box of chocolates. Meanwhile Granville takes to wearing tights on his head.

Runtime: 30 min

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