Laugh all hours (Open All Hours)

Member Name: LisaW82

Product:	Open All Hours
Date:	02/03/09 (191 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very funny

Disadvantages: Not on TV as much as it should be

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 coming" is amazing and pure comedy gold.

Arkwright has his love interest over the road in nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Granville has his in any young lady that happens to go by. His squeeky bike tends to put people off though.

Open All Hours is rated that highly that repeats can be regularly seen on TV still to this day and it could still command a prime time Saturday night slot in my opinion.

The shop itself was actually a hair dressers in Doncaster where I live and my mother actually used to go past it every day on her way to school. The transformation from that to be a corner shop apparently took the crew less than a day each time.

The show managed to create constant belly laughs whilst keeping the story going overall and actually, like all good sitcoms should, made you really care about the characters.

I'd love to have lived in the generation where there was still hope of new Open All Hours episodes.

Summary: I'd love to have lived in the generation where there was still hope of new Open All Hours episodes.