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Open All Hours (1976)

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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.

  1. Roy Clarke

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Ronnie Barker

    Ronnie Barker

  2. David Jason

    David Jason

    Granville

  3. Barbara Flynn

    Barbara Flynn

  4. Lynda Baron

    Lynda Baron

  5. Shirley Steedman

  6. Maggie Ollerenshaw

    Maggie Ollerenshaw

  7. Stephanie Cole

    Stephanie Cole

Last Season

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Season 4

1985 | 6 Episodes

Season 4 of Open All Hours premiered on September 1, 1985.

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Feb 23, 2022

It took the BBC a couple of years after the end of "Porridge" to find another suitable sitcom for the considerable talents of Ronnie Barker, and so in 1976 they reunited him with producer Sydney Lotterby and "Last of the Summer Wine" creator Roy Clarke to portray "Arkwright", the stammering Yorkshire store keeper whose miserliness could give "Scrooge" a run for his money. He is enamoured of the well-endowed local nurse "Gladys" (Lynda Baron) whilst trying to keep his live-in nephew/dogsbody "Granville" (a wonderfully skilful series of performances from David Jason) from succumbing to the evil ...

Facts

StatusEnded

Networks

  • BBC One

TypeScripted

Original LanguageEnglish

Keywords

  • nurse
  • workaholic
  • fiancé
  • bicycle
  • northern england
  • uncle
  • yorkshire
  • working class
  • miser
  • customer
  • nephew
  • errand boy
  • shopkeeper
  • cash register
  • sitcom
  • workplace comedy