Box set: The Ronnie Barker Collection

Open All Hours: Series 2

BBC (1981)

Comedy
 /   / Color / 210 mins
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In Collection
#279
7.7

Plot

Arkwright is a tight-fisted shop owner in Doncaster, who will stop at nothing to keep his profits high and his overheads low, even if this means harassing his nephew Granville. Arkwright's only weakness is his love - Nurse Gladys Emanuelle.

Cast

Ronnie Barker Albert Arkwright
David Jason Granville
Frances Cox Mrs. Parslow
Lynda Baron Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
Tom Mennard Cyril
Lynda Barron Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
Barbara Flynn The Milk Woman
Stephanie Cole Mrs. Featherstone
Maggie Ollerenshaw Mavis
Kathy Staff Mrs. Blewett
Shirley Steedman Maureen
Howard Crossley Man in Car 
Nick Stringer Man 
Teddy Turner Gordon
Alan Starkey Thorndyke

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Director
Sidney Lotterby
Unspecified
Producer Sidney Lotterby
Writer Roy Clarke
Musician Max Harris

Episodes

Disc 01

1
Laundry Blues
30 mins  01/03/1981
Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, having seen Granville struggling with the washing, tells Arkwright that he must buy a new washing machine. Arkwright has to come up with a plan so that she thinks he has done as she requests. He gets Neville to drop off a new machine, sneak round the back of the shop and take it away again, leaving behind a second-hand machine instead!
2
The Reluctant Traveller
30 mins  08/03/1981
Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Arkwright are finally going to spend the night away at a hotel. Little does she know that the hotel is round the block! Whilst they are away, Granville is entertaining the milk-woman. Arkwright also has a problem with an over-tight money belt!
3
Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls
30 mins  18/03/1981
Arkwright once again is struggling to sell goods that no-one wants to buy. He therefore tries a special promotion to get rid of the goods, namely fig biscuits and toilet rolls with messages printed on them.
4
The New Suit
30 mins  22/03/1981
Arkwright has to buy a new suit - on Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's say so.
5
Arkwright's Mobile Store
30 mins  29/03/1981
In a bid to prove to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel that he means to expand his business, he buys a van so that Arkwright's Stores can have a mobile store.
6
Shedding At The Wedding
30 mins  05/04/1981
Arkwright goes to a wedding with Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. His suit smells of mothballs and he has to hang his trousers out of Gladys' car to air them. After his trousers are blown away and run over by a tractor, he has to borrow her trousers!
7
St Albert's Day
30 mins  19/04/1981
Arkwright invents a Saint's day so that Granville can check the pockets of a foreign visitor who he suspects of shoplifting.

Edition Details

Edition 1 Disc Series
Series Open All Hours
Release Date 29/09/2003
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned)
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

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