Open All Hours

1976-1985 30m

7.9 / 10 57

RATING

7.9/10

YOUR RATING

Comedy

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

Creators

Roy Clarke

Stars

Ronnie Barker David Jason Lynda Baron

Seasons

Nurse Gladys Emmanuel

Barbara Flynn

The Milk Woman

Stephanie Cole

Mrs Delphine Featherstone

Milk Round Supervisor

Man from Matlock Mutual Protection Society

Woman Wanting Firelighters

Man Looking for Directions

Man Whose Tyres Were Let Down

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Windscreen Smear Customer

Cash Register Salesman

Woman Outside Shop (uncredited)

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Elizabeth Dawn

Woman Outside Shop (uncredited)

57 User reviews

Nurse Gladys Emmanuel

Barbara Flynn

The Milk Woman

Stephanie Cole

Mrs Delphine Featherstone

Milk Round Supervisor

Man from Matlock Mutual Protection Society

Woman Wanting Firelighters

Man Looking for Directions

Man Whose Tyres Were Let Down

Girl Who Answers Advert

Windscreen Smear Customer

Cash Register Salesman

Woman Outside Shop (uncredited)

👤

Elizabeth Dawn

Woman Outside Shop (uncredited)

User Reviews 1

Geronimo1967 23 Feb 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 we...