Open All Hours

I absolutely adore Open All Hours. Being a fanatic Sir David Jason fan, i thought i would flick through his back catalogue a couple of years back and came across this one. Starring the late Ronnie Barker and Only Fools And Horses star, Sir David Jason. Way back in 1976 was the first episode of four series. The legend Ronnie Barker plays a miserable, stingy old grocer called Arkwright. Who, with his nephew runs a corner shop in Yorkshire. Arkwright isn't the most generous soul in the world, infact he makes Scrooge look charming. He would often put his prices up and short change people when he thinks he can get away with it. He has his own 'Unique' till ...  Read the complete review

Open All Hours is the classic UK comedy that made the now legend that is David Jason. He really could not struggle to do well performing along side the late great Ronnie Barker. The show is based upon a tight money grabbing corner shop owner called Arkwright (Barker) and his shop assistant Granville (Jason) and there trials and tribulations of running the local shopping hub as it was then. Arkwright is the classic penny grabber but with one less than subtle difference and that is his hilarious s-s-s-stutter. Just watching him tell Granville to "sh sh sh sh shut yer mer mer mer mouth Ge Granville there is a der der der double der decker bus cer ...  Read the complete review

Open All Ours is a gentle sit-com, set in a time when supermarkets were still not that common; most of us then would do our shopping in local shops trekking from the butchers to the bakers to the greengrocers, all within walking distance of our homes. In the series, the late and much-missed Ronnie Barker played Arkwright, one of the meanest shopkeepers in the country. He and his nephew, the naive and gormless Granville, played by David Jason, lived at the back of the shop; while most of the scenes are filmed in the shop itself, some of them take place in the horrid little kitchen at the back. Arkwright will do anything to persuade customers to buy ...  Read the complete review

With 2 of Britains greatest ever comedy actors Open All hours should have been a masterpiece. Sadly although occasionally funny it never really climbed above the level of an extended sketch. Although written by the very capable Roy Clarke for once the gentle home spun humour did not fully fire together. Clarke would have more success with Rosie, Keeping Up Appearances and Last Of The Summer Wine. As you would probably imagine from this list Clarke is not a writer of cutting edge sharp comedy. Rather he prefers to craft his characters and the situation. Open AllHours first appeared on BBC2 in 1976 but it was not to reappear until 5 years later on BBC1 after Ronnie Barker ...  Read the complete review

Open all Hours. Open All Hours first appeared as a pilot on BBC2 in 1976, but it was not to reappear until 5 years later on BBC1! With Ronnie Barker and David Jason in this comedy duo, only bad writing could possible ruin the show. However with Roy Clarke doing the writing this Sitcom was destined to be a favourite with the viewers. Personally it was never in the same league as 'Rising Damp' or 'Porridge'. It was written in a 'Last of the Summer Wine style'. Understandable really as Clarke wrote this as well. The humour was slow and steady, in fact if it wasn't for the great acting of Barker and Jason the show might ...  Read the complete review