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Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which aired in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme was developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's Seven of One (1973) comedy anthology seri
The Open All Hours pilot was the first episode of Ronnie Barker's 1973 comedy anthology series, Seven of One. It was one of two episodes that the BBC developed into a series; the other, Prisoner and Escort, became the BBC1 sitcom Porridge, which premiered in 1974. The first series of Open All Hours began on BBC2 in 1976.
25 March – The pilot episode of sitcom Open All Hours, set in a corner shop, airs as part of Ronnie Barker's series Seven of One on BBC1. March – Experimental Ceefax teletext transmissions begin.
Albert E. Arkwright (born 1927) is played by Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours.. Arkwright is a pragmatic, miserly man with old-fashioned values, whose world seems to stop at his shop door, except for his lusting for Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, which prompts him on occasion to wander across the road, usually with a ladder, to gain access to her bedroom window.
July 2 – U.S. game show Match Game debuts its 1970s version; it soon becomes the #1-rated daytime television program for 1973, 1974, and 1975, as well as #1 game show from 1973 to 1977. August 6 – James Beck , who stars as Private Walker in the popular U.K. sitcom Dad's Army , dies of a burst pancreas at the age of just 44.
6 May 1973 () Seven of One , stylised as 7 of 1 , [ 1 ] is a British sitcom anthology series that aired on BBC2 in 1973. [ 1 ] Starring Ronnie Barker , Seven of One is a series of seven separate 30-minute episodes that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms . [ 1 ]
In 1973 Chegwin appeared in the pilot episode of Open All Hours. After that he had parts in The Liver Birds , The Adventures of Black Beauty , My Old Man , Village Hall , Z-Cars (both 1974), ITV 's The Wackers and The Tomorrow People serial Worlds Away (both 1975).
Barker opted to produce some sitcom pilots shown as part of 1973's Seven of One. Two of these pilots, Open All Hours (written by Roy Clarke) and Prisoner and Escort (written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais) became series.