Ronnie Barker
Arkwright
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- 1. Full of Mysterious Promise Feb 20, 1976
- Customers at Arkwright's shop face a gastronomic lottery and a dietician's nightmare.
- 2. A Mattress on Wheels Feb 27, 1976
- Granville is finding it difficult to deliver the groceries on his delivery bike.
- 3. A Nice Cosy Little Disease Mar 5, 1976
- Granville reaps the benefits when Arkwright plots to win Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's heart.
Open All Hours. Arkwright is a miserly and eccentric shopkeeper with a stammer, who longs to marry his lifelong love Nurse Gladys. He runs a small-town grocery store along with his errand boy and nephew, Granville, and a particularly dangerous till.
Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which aired in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme was developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's Seven of One (1973) comedy anthology series.
Stuttering shopkeeper Arkwright, assisted by his much put upon nephew Granville, runs the corner shop in a suburb of Doncaster, boasting that it is open all hours.When not pursuing Gladys Emanuel, the district nurse who lives opposite the shop, Arkwright is ever on the look-out to save money, such as buying a load of fire-damaged tinned food.
Open All Hours. Top-rated. Sun, Mar 28, 1982. S3.E2. The Ginger Men. When Arkwright finds himself with a surplus of Jamaican Ginger cakes he tries various marketing ploys in order to sell them off, but hits the jackpot when he claims that the cakes contain drugs, which has the customers fighting to get at them. 8.2/10. Rate. Top-rated.
Documentary looking at the enduring appeal of the classic comedy series Open All Hours and following the cast and crew as they return to film a new Christmas special at Arkwright's original shop in Doncaster.
Open All Hours (TV Series 1976–1985) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Open All Hours featuring Ronnie Barker and David Jason has one or more episodes streaming on BritBox, and streaming with subscription on Roku. It's a comedy show with 25 episodes over 4 seasons. Open All Hours is no longer running and has no plans to air new episodes or seasons.
EPISODE 1. Full of Mysterious Promise. Arkwright's fire-damaged bargain provides a kind of gastronomic lottery and a dietitian's nightmare. 27 min Feb 20, 1976 TV-PG. EPISODE 2. A Mattress on Wheels. When Granville points out that a can could take two people in the back, his uncle's thoughts turn at once to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
Open All Hours. Penny pinching shopkeeper Arkwright is still in the dark ages when it comes to commerce. His passions involve parting customers from their cash, keeping his nephew Granville in line, and tirelessly pursuing Gladys Emmanuel.
Open All Hours. Penny pinching shopkeeper Arkwright is still in the dark ages when it comes to commerce. His passions involve parting unsuspecting customers from their hard-earned cash, keeping his day-dreaming nephew Granville in line, and tirelessly pursuing nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
