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Last of the Summer Wine
1973 · Comedy
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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.
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Ronnie Barker
Albert Arkwright
David Jason
Granville
Lynda Baron
Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
Barbara Flynn
The Milk Woman
Stephanie Cole
Mrs Delphine Featherstone
Kathy Staff
Mrs Blewett
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Mavis
Helen Cotterill
Julie
Sandra Voe
Mrs Bickerdyke
Teddy Turner
Gordon Stackpool
Jean Heywood
Vera
Barbara Keogh
Mrs Ellis
George Innes
Used Car Salesman
Clare Kelly
Mrs Braddock
Tony Aitken
Norman
John Challis
Bread Man
Edna Doré
Woman Wanting Firelighters
Renu Setna
VAT Man
Matthew Scurfield
Man from Bus Stop
Emrys Jones
Eli Bickerdyke
CinemaSerf
February 23, 2022
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 Lotterby and "Last of the Summer Wine" creator Roy Clarke to portray "Arkwright", the stammering Yorkshire store keeper whose miserliness could give "Scrooge" a run for his money. He is enamoured of the well-endowed local nur…
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