Open All Hours
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Oct 21, 2026
Tyler AdamsHOST
Right.
Tyler AdamsHOST
And it is Open All Hours.
Tyler AdamsHOST
MUSIC PLAYS
Chris DiamondHOST
Yeah, that's interesting you say that, because I would have thought most people would say their favourite Ronnie Barker sitcom is Porridge.
Chris DiamondHOST
Right, OK, that's
Tyler AdamsHOST
interesting.
Tyler AdamsHOST
So, Open All Hours, it sprang from a comedy playhouse-type series featuring Ronnie Barker called Seven of One.
Ronnie BarkerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm getting worried about Granville.
Caroline FrostHOST
He created this world in Peckham of these hustlers, people on the make, chasing their dreams.
Caroline FrostHOST
He said that originally John Sullivan didn't actually want him for the role because they couldn't believe that somebody who had played little wispy, dreamy Glanville in Open All Hours was capable of the wise-cracking hustler-
Shem LawHOST
Well, that's, that's-
Caroline FrostHOST
... that was Derek Trotter
AlanHOST
So let me just pull up a clip.
AlanHOST
Here's one from 1976 in open all hours.
AlanHOST
So David Jason's in this one, albeit just in the background.
AlanHOST
This is him as the bread man.
Stephen CreaghHOST
It was the first crewed lunar flyby mission in over 50 years.
Stephen CreaghHOST
Question 11: In the classic British comedy series Open All Hours, what occupation was Ronnie Barker? [musical interlude] He was a shopkeeper and a very, very amusing one at that.
Stephen CreaghHOST
Question 12: On which part of the body might you have a root canal? [musical interlude] You don't really want to have one, but if you do, it's gonna be on your teeth.
Stephen CreaghHOST
Question 13: What is a typo? [musical interlude] A typo is an error made while typing or printing text.
Tyler AdamsHOST
He and I will be examining... classic British, not all classic, but mostly classic British sitcoms of different eras and sizes and shapes using the ninth episode, their ninth episode as the sort of the starting point for reasons that will become apparent when you actually listen to the show.
Tyler AdamsHOST
And we will be talking about on our inaugural show next week, Open All Hours.
Ted WebbGUEST
So good start.
Ted WebbGUEST
Good start.
Ted WebbGUEST
Not off the top of my head, actually.
Ted WebbGUEST
I had to go down... find it on a streaming service.
Tyler AdamsHOST
Well, they're all pretty similar Open All Hours episodes.
Tyler AdamsHOST
There's not a huge amount of difference.
AlanHOST
They also did...
AlanHOST
The last series of Open All Hours was '85, I think.
AlanHOST
So obviously, like, that's-
GarethHOST
Mm
Abigoliah SchamaunHOST
Well, well-
Tom SalinskyHOST
Or, and/or we'll do Porridge or Open All Hours or these classic shows.
Abigoliah SchamaunHOST
You can-
Tom SalinskyHOST
He was a brilliant comedy actor.
David Pinto-DuschinskyGUEST
Stammerers, we were figures of fun.
David Pinto-DuschinskyGUEST
How were we depicted in the media? Well, most people's experience of it was a show called Open All Hours, which I love, which is really funny.
David Pinto-DuschinskyGUEST
But again, it's poking fun.
David Pinto-DuschinskyGUEST
Films like A Fish Called Wonder, you know, kind of Elmer Fudd in the cartoons.
Ted SalmonHOST
She had Alzheimer's, apparently.
Ted SalmonHOST
And she's famous, most famous for me anyway, as Mrs. Featherstone in Open All Hours, who was the lady from down the road, who was always wearing black and the moral compass and outraged by anything that wasn't absolutely straight.
Ted SalmonHOST
And she played a great role in Open All Hours.
Ted SalmonHOST
And then followed it up with Still Open All Hours, of course, which was the follow-on after Ronnie Barker had died.
Ted SalmonHOST
Apparently she was in Coronation Street.
Ted SalmonHOST
She was in Waiting for God, which was another Brit sitcom from the 80s.
LozHOST
And then, Brad, you might not know who this is, but, um, if you grew up in the '80s, '90s, uh, and you watched the BBC, uh, Stephanie Cole.
LozHOST
Uh, she was in a TV show called "Open All Hours." She played, uh, a widow in that, and then she played, uh...
LozHOST
I think she was a widow in "Waiting for God" as well, which was like, it was set in a retirement home in somewhere in like, uh, somewhere in the UK, and she was like this grumpy old battle-ax, and she'd wave a stick at people and stuff, and she was just dry, absolutely dry as fuck with her comedy and that.
LozHOST
Um, she's passed away at the age of 84.
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