Open All Hours

19764 seasons★ 7.9Comedy

Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.

seasons(4)

Series 1

6 ep · 1976

Series 2

7 ep · 1981

Series 3

6 ep · 1982

Series 4

6 ep · 1985

Reviews

“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…”

— CinemaSerf