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Open All Hours (1976–1985)

4 seasons25 episodes30 min per episode★ 7.6 · 6,552 votes

• Comedy

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.

First aired

February 20, 1976

Last episode

October 6, 1985

Network

BBC One

Country of origin

United Kingdom