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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 full episode list
Release Date:
20 February 1976 (UK) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Plot:
Arkwright is a tight-fisted shop owner in Doncaster, who will stop at nothing to keep his profits high and his overheads low... more
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
British TV Star Staff Dies
 (From WENN. 14 December 2008, 6:21 AM, PST)

Lynda Baron returns to 'EastEnders'
 (From digitalspy. 9 September 2008, 2:46 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Gentle and often hilarious British sitcom more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 3 of 17)
Ronnie Barker ... Albert Arkwright (25 episodes, 1976-1985)
David Jason ... Granville (25 episodes, 1976-1985)
Lynda Baron ... Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (25 episodes, 1976-1985)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
30 min (26 episodes)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
New Zealand:PG (seasons 1-4) | Australia:PG (DVD rating)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Ronnie Barker first saw the script, the character of Arkwright did not have a stutter. Barker always credits Glenn Melvyn as the inspiration for the stutter. more
Quotes:
Mr Wilkinson: Next time you feel desperate for an egg, lad, pause, and remember where it's come from. The world's full of nasty places, Granville. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Comedy Connections: Porridge (#1.1)" (2003) more

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9 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Gentle and often hilarious British sitcom, 8 March 2004
Author: TC Raymond from Above Arkwright's

Ronnie Barker turns in another stunning performance as Albert Arkwright, the meanest man alive, in this under-rated sitcom about a no-nonsense Northern shopkeeper, his buxom fiancee and his dreamy, accident-prone nephew. The entire cast are good, the scripts mostly tight and inventive and the production design (especially the interior sets) is of a high standard, but the details really make it come alive - Wavy Mavis, the world's most indecisive consumer; Mrs Featherstone, the 'Black Widow'; humourless gossipmonger Mrs Blewitt; gullible loudmouth Cyril, conned into thinking Jamaican ginger cake is an aphrodisiac; names like Scrooby, Parsloe and Micklethwaite; the sympathetic milkwoman; the lethal cash register...I could go on. Despite the occasional duff episode, Open All Hours belongs in the top drawer of British sitcom, alongside Fawlty and Steptoe.

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