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Open All Hours( 1976)

TV-MAComedy
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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.

  1. Roy Clarke

    Creator

Series Cast

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    Ronnie Barker

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    David Jason

    Granville

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    Barbara Flynn

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    Lynda Baron

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    Shirley Steedman

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    Maggie Ollerenshaw

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    Stephanie Cole

Current Season

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Series 4

1985 | 6 Episodes

Series 4 of Open All Hours premiered on Sep 01 1985

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A review by CinemaSerf

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Written by CinemaSerf on Wed 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 -...

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Facts

Status

Ended

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Type

Scripted

Original Language

English

Keywords

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