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Open All Hours - Series One [1976]

starring: Ronnie Barker, David Jason, Lynda Baron

September 30, 2002
This is a wonderful comedy series. Well written and superbly acted. I remember watching it as a child and it's as funny now as it was then. Set in a northern corner shop, it reminds me so much of a shop my mother used to work when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Ronnie Barker is faultless as the the stuttering Arkwright and David Jason is brilliant as his down trodden nephew/errand boy, Granville. The two of them are so good, you don't iven think about the northern characters actually being played by two southerners. It has some classic one liners and catchprases (f-f-f-f-fetch a cloth Granville). Arkwrights constant lusting after Nurse G-G-Gladys Emmanuel is also hilarious.