What is Open All Hours?
{{italictitle}} '''''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 developed from a [[television pilot]] broadcast in [[Ronnie Barker]]'s comedy [[anthology series]], ''[[Seven of One]]'' (1973). ''Open All Hours'' ranked eighth in the 2004 [[Britain's Best Sitcom]] poll.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/winner.shtml Britain's Best Sitcom:Top Ten], URL accessed 2 December 2006.</ref> It is set in a small [[grocery]] [[shop]] in [[Balby]], [[Doncaster]], [[South Yorkshire]]. It stars [[Ronnie Barker]] as the [[owner]] Albert Arkwright and [[David Jason]] as his [[nephew]] Granville, who works for him. [[Lynda Baron]] plays [[nurse]] Gladys Emanuel, whom Arkwright is strongly attracted to. A sequel, entitled ''[[Still Open All Hours]]'', began airing in 2013. ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == *{{imdb title|0074036}} [[Category:1973 television series debuts]] [[Category:1985 disestablishments in Europe]] [[Category:1970s British sitcoms]] [[Category:1970s British workplace television series]] [[Category:1970s establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1970s workplace comedy television series]] [[Category:1980s British sitcoms]] [[Category:1980s British workplace television series]] [[Category:1980s disestablishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:1980s workplace comedy television series]] [[Category:BBC television sitcoms]] [[Category:British workplace comedy television series]] [[Category:South Yorkshire]] [[Category:Television series about families]] [[Category:Television shows set in Yorkshire]] [[Category:English-language television programs]] [[Category:1985 television series endings]] {{-}} {{tv-stub}}