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Still Open All Hours
Still Open All Hours is a British sitcom (2013–2019) created for the BBC by Roy Clarke, and starring David Jason and James Baxter. It is the sequel to the sitcom Open All Hours (1976–1985), in which both Clarke and Jason were involved. The new series was launched following a 40th Anniversary Special in December 2013 commemorating the original series. The sitcom's premise focuses on the life of a much older Granville, who now runs his late uncle's grocery shop with the assistance of his son, continuing to sell products at higher prices alongside seeking to be with his love interest.
Unlike the original series, the cast for Still Open All Hours includes a more regular group of characters and additional side-plots. It has featured the return of Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, and Maggie Ollerenshaw as their characters from Open All Hours. Although the special received poor reviews, it attracted positive viewing figures, and the sitcom went on to air a total of 41 episodes across six series (compared to 26 episodes, over 4 series, for the original). A seventh series had been commissioned in 2019, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and despite plans to record it, the series was eventually cancelled in 2023, with the BBC saying it had no plans for any new episodes.
Like Open All Hours, the sitcom is set within a small grocer's shop in the suburb of Balby, within Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and focuses on the life of Granville (David Jason) – now much older and the shop's owner, having grown into the same sort of person as his late uncle Arkwright was by learning from him his many ways of selling to customers. Assisting him in running the shop is Leroy (James Baxter), Granville's son by one of his previous girlfriends, who maintains a rather robust love life with several girls but struggles to cope with the work and sales approach of his father, much as Granville did with Arkwright.
Granville maintains a love life with the sweet but absent-minded Mavis (Maggie Ollerenshaw) who loves him in return, but finds his path to her often blocked by her sister Madge (Brigit Forsyth), a miserable woman who does not like men and chooses to keep Mavis from following a relationship with Granville. Both are regular customers of the shop, alongside others from the neighbourhood onto whom Granville tries to offload products which he has bought and had little success selling on under their original identity and price.
Since Open All Hours, having lived his youth as a nice but shy and awkward man who struggled with shop life, but in his old age Granville has changed into a more toned-down version of his uncle Arkwright. Thanks to his uncle's training, he now exhibits a similar habit of selling goods at inflated prices, fabricating stories to sell useless and/or unsaleable items to hapless customers, and keeping a close watch on the money he spends – often through employing the use of a special money belt that causes slight issues and embarrassment at times. During his uncle's training, Granville engaged in relationships with several girlfriends, in which a fling in Blackpool resulted in the procreation of his son Leroy, whom he was left in charge of by the boy's mother. Following his uncle's death, Granville inherited the shop, which he runs alongside Leroy, often teasing his son over the identity of his mother (thus mirroring the original plot of Open All Hours where Arkwright teased Granville over his alleged Hungarian parentage) – whilst secretly concealing the fact that he knows who she is – while subjecting him to practical jokes and teaching him some of the tricks that Arkwright taught him. In Still Open All Hours he maintains a belief that his uncle lives on through the shop's till, often referring to it as Arkwright in later episodes, because of its propensity to open or close suddenly at times for various reasons (such as when there is mention of spending considerable money on something). Arkwright's framed portrait on the wall sometimes tilts when spoken to. As in Open All Hours, Granville jokingly imitates his uncle's stutter when reminiscing events from the past. Two episodes featured Arkwright's ghost turning lights on and off (Series 1, Episode 6, and the 2015 Christmas Special). As Arkwright did in the original series, Granville concludes every episode with an internal monologue where he reflects on the day's events as he closes the shop in the evening.
Like his uncle, Granville has a love interest of his own in Mavis, a woman he met during his youth and whom he still fondly loves. Unlike his uncle, Granville must struggle to be with Mavis since the end of her previous marriage, due to her sister Madge desiring to keep them apart. To try to distract Madge and hopefully remove her as an obstacle, Granville spends his time grooming one of his regulars, Gastric, into becoming Madge's love interest. In later episodes, he also finds himself trying to stop the advances of widow Delphine Featherstone, one of his uncle's customers (to whom he accidentally sent a love note that was meant for Mavis), by persuading fellow widower, Wilburn Newbold, to enter a relationship with her and maintain it, despite Mrs Featherstone's presence unnerving him.
Leroy was born to a mother who his father met during a fling in Blackpool, but who he does not know about, despite Granville secretly knowing who she is; although his mother is talked about during the first series, including a visit by her to see Leroy, references about her become rare and non-existent in later episodes. Left in his father's care by his mother at a young age, Leroy suffers similar issues to those that Granville faced in his youth, such as having to be up early to open the shop, being on the receiving end of his father's practical jokes, and handling the deliveries of purchases to customers. Unlike his father, Leroy maintains an active social life with many young women, most having boyfriends that they do not mind ignoring to spend time with him (much to his father's dismay), while displaying a firm dislike of his father's penchant for unloading products he buys cheaply but cannot sell. By the fourth series, Leroy becomes committed to winning the affection of a local librarian, despite her values and vegan lifestyle.
Forty-one episodes of Still Open All Hours, all written by Roy Clarke, have been produced for the BBC. The show began airing on 26 December 2013 with an anniversary special of original series, Open All Hours All episodes had a running time of 30 minutes. Between Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, there have been a total of 67 episodes and ten series broadcast between 1973 and 2019.
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Still Open All Hours
Still Open All Hours is a British sitcom (2013–2019) created for the BBC by Roy Clarke, and starring David Jason and James Baxter. It is the sequel to the sitcom Open All Hours (1976–1985), in which both Clarke and Jason were involved. The new series was launched following a 40th Anniversary Special in December 2013 commemorating the original series. The sitcom's premise focuses on the life of a much older Granville, who now runs his late uncle's grocery shop with the assistance of his son, continuing to sell products at higher prices alongside seeking to be with his love interest.
Unlike the original series, the cast for Still Open All Hours includes a more regular group of characters and additional side-plots. It has featured the return of Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, and Maggie Ollerenshaw as their characters from Open All Hours. Although the special received poor reviews, it attracted positive viewing figures, and the sitcom went on to air a total of 41 episodes across six series (compared to 26 episodes, over 4 series, for the original). A seventh series had been commissioned in 2019, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and despite plans to record it, the series was eventually cancelled in 2023, with the BBC saying it had no plans for any new episodes.
Like Open All Hours, the sitcom is set within a small grocer's shop in the suburb of Balby, within Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and focuses on the life of Granville (David Jason) – now much older and the shop's owner, having grown into the same sort of person as his late uncle Arkwright was by learning from him his many ways of selling to customers. Assisting him in running the shop is Leroy (James Baxter), Granville's son by one of his previous girlfriends, who maintains a rather robust love life with several girls but struggles to cope with the work and sales approach of his father, much as Granville did with Arkwright.
Granville maintains a love life with the sweet but absent-minded Mavis (Maggie Ollerenshaw) who loves him in return, but finds his path to her often blocked by her sister Madge (Brigit Forsyth), a miserable woman who does not like men and chooses to keep Mavis from following a relationship with Granville. Both are regular customers of the shop, alongside others from the neighbourhood onto whom Granville tries to offload products which he has bought and had little success selling on under their original identity and price.
Since Open All Hours, having lived his youth as a nice but shy and awkward man who struggled with shop life, but in his old age Granville has changed into a more toned-down version of his uncle Arkwright. Thanks to his uncle's training, he now exhibits a similar habit of selling goods at inflated prices, fabricating stories to sell useless and/or unsaleable items to hapless customers, and keeping a close watch on the money he spends – often through employing the use of a special money belt that causes slight issues and embarrassment at times. During his uncle's training, Granville engaged in relationships with several girlfriends, in which a fling in Blackpool resulted in the procreation of his son Leroy, whom he was left in charge of by the boy's mother. Following his uncle's death, Granville inherited the shop, which he runs alongside Leroy, often teasing his son over the identity of his mother (thus mirroring the original plot of Open All Hours where Arkwright teased Granville over his alleged Hungarian parentage) – whilst secretly concealing the fact that he knows who she is – while subjecting him to practical jokes and teaching him some of the tricks that Arkwright taught him. In Still Open All Hours he maintains a belief that his uncle lives on through the shop's till, often referring to it as Arkwright in later episodes, because of its propensity to open or close suddenly at times for various reasons (such as when there is mention of spending considerable money on something). Arkwright's framed portrait on the wall sometimes tilts when spoken to. As in Open All Hours, Granville jokingly imitates his uncle's stutter when reminiscing events from the past. Two episodes featured Arkwright's ghost turning lights on and off (Series 1, Episode 6, and the 2015 Christmas Special). As Arkwright did in the original series, Granville concludes every episode with an internal monologue where he reflects on the day's events as he closes the shop in the evening.
Like his uncle, Granville has a love interest of his own in Mavis, a woman he met during his youth and whom he still fondly loves. Unlike his uncle, Granville must struggle to be with Mavis since the end of her previous marriage, due to her sister Madge desiring to keep them apart. To try to distract Madge and hopefully remove her as an obstacle, Granville spends his time grooming one of his regulars, Gastric, into becoming Madge's love interest. In later episodes, he also finds himself trying to stop the advances of widow Delphine Featherstone, one of his uncle's customers (to whom he accidentally sent a love note that was meant for Mavis), by persuading fellow widower, Wilburn Newbold, to enter a relationship with her and maintain it, despite Mrs Featherstone's presence unnerving him.
Leroy was born to a mother who his father met during a fling in Blackpool, but who he does not know about, despite Granville secretly knowing who she is; although his mother is talked about during the first series, including a visit by her to see Leroy, references about her become rare and non-existent in later episodes. Left in his father's care by his mother at a young age, Leroy suffers similar issues to those that Granville faced in his youth, such as having to be up early to open the shop, being on the receiving end of his father's practical jokes, and handling the deliveries of purchases to customers. Unlike his father, Leroy maintains an active social life with many young women, most having boyfriends that they do not mind ignoring to spend time with him (much to his father's dismay), while displaying a firm dislike of his father's penchant for unloading products he buys cheaply but cannot sell. By the fourth series, Leroy becomes committed to winning the affection of a local librarian, despite her values and vegan lifestyle.
Forty-one episodes of Still Open All Hours, all written by Roy Clarke, have been produced for the BBC. The show began airing on 26 December 2013 with an anniversary special of original series, Open All Hours All episodes had a running time of 30 minutes. Between Open All Hours and Still Open All Hours, there have been a total of 67 episodes and ten series broadcast between 1973 and 2019.