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Open All Hours - Season One
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1976
Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series (26 episodes in all over three broadcast runs) a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and finally with a fourth (and final) run in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973. In 2004, the series was voted eighth in Britain's Best Sitcom.
Open All Hours - Season Two
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1981
The series features a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sell anything to any buyer, no matter how unwilling. His nephew Granville (David Jason), is his put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a love-life or even just a meaningful social life fall flat. He blames his uncle, in particular, that, he has to be up early to open the shop, stay up late to close it with only an odd hour of free time and deliver large numbers of goods on a battered bicycle. Almost every mistake Arkwright makes is followe...
Open All Hours - Season Three
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1982
The shop is crowded and most goods can only be reached from behind the counter allowing Arkwright a chance to hawk more goods. The till is old, and an overtightened spring on its drawer terrifies Granville and Arkwright, as it results in many a close call as the till snaps shut, almost trapping the pair's fingers. Arkwright does not replace it partly because replacements are too expensive, and partly because it prevents people from taking his precious money.
Open All Hours - Season Four
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Lynda Baron, David Jason, Ronnie Barker
Directors: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron
Country: UK
Year: 1984
Across the road lives Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron), Arkwright's long-standing fiancée; much of the skinflint's time is dedicated to trying to persuade her to marry him, or at least sleep with him. Nurse Gladys has her rounds and her elderly mother to occupy her. The only one with any influence over Arkwright, she forces him to give Granville more freedoms and spend money to modernize his archaic lifestyle. In the pilot episode, Nurse Gladys was played by Sheila Brennan with an Irish accent, and the character was slimmer than the buxom creature she became, played by Lynda Baron.
The Second Quest
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Morven Christie, Julie Dawn Cole, David Jason, Jonathan Kydd, Amelda Brown, Georgia Moffett
Directors: David Jason
Country: UK
Year: 2004
Three old friends are re-united in hospital owing to an accident that happened to one of them. Whilst together they recall their ill-fated motorbike trip to the Isle of Man that they made in 1960. Ostensibly, their trip was to ride the famous TT race course but inevitably girls and their continuing quest to lose their virginity was never far from their minds!
The Final Quest
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Stephen Moyer, Peter Cellier, David Jason, Rachael Stirling, Roy Hudd, Dolly Wells
Directors: David Jason
Country: UK
Year: 2004
The song being played at the wedding reception is "No Other Love", sung by Ronnie Hilton. The actual record seen on the turntable is "Counting Teardrops", sung by Bobby Stevens.