Series Cast
Ronnie Barker
David Jason
Granville
Barbara Flynn
Lynda Baron
Shirley Steedman
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Stephanie Cole
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Series 4
1985 | 6 Episodes
Series 4 of Open All Hours premiered on Sep 01 1985
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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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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