Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780779200276 Format: Box set, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0779200276 Label: BBC Warner Manufacturer: BBC Warner Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: BBC Warner Release Date: August 29, 2000 Running Time: 150 minutes Sales Rank: 31990 Studio: BBC Warner
Rating: - High time this came to DVD!!!
As an American, this charmingly funny series was the catalyst for my love of all things BBC. Shouldn't we be given this gem on DVD!!!!????
Do all you can to catch this classic!
Rating: - rude, crude and very very f-f-f-funny!
Open All hours is quite literally one of the funniest television shows ever! Being British and from the north i can tell you that it doesn't get better than this. Stuttering Arkwright who is superbly played by Ronnie Barker in arguably his greatest ever role is the shop keeper from hell! his love for nurse gladys and his even greater love for money which comes at no cost! Accompanied by Granville played by David Jason his errand boy nephew desperate to find a love of his own but always being the fall guy and the butt of the jokes. Arguablly the best part of Arkwright's shop is the 'evil' till! ... Read More
Rating: - Extremely funny!
Arkwright (played by Ronnie Barker!) runs his Yorkshire general store with a tight-fist; if there's a way he can squeeze more profits out of his customer, or lower overhead, he'll do it! While his nephew Granville (David Jason) looks for love in all the wrong places, Arkwright seeks to finally force Nurse Gladys Emanuel (Lynda Baron) to the altar. It's a funny free-for-all, with Arkwright seeing to it that nobody gets anything for free!
Written by Roy Clarke, the author of the fabulous show Keeping Up Appearances, this show is extremely funny! The characters are very interesting and ... Read More
Rating: - Take it from a "Northerner"
This is brilliantly observed comedy that really captures the mood of the time.
Living as I do, very close to the area where this comedy was filmed (a converted hair salon in Yorkshire) I grew up with Open All Hours, and it is as funny to me now as it ever was, very few comedies have left me helpless with laughter as often. But what else can you expect from the combination of Roy Clarke, David Jason and Ronnie Barker, two great character actors and one of our best comedy writers (the Northern England accents are almost spot on too :)?
I would recommend this series to anyone ... Read More
Rating: - If life was only like this!
I happened upon this gem many years ago via WCML/WCMU Public TV in Northern Michigan. At first I didn't know what to make of it. But, for lack of TV channels, four in all, the hard choice was made. It only took one complete show to get hooked.
Watching it was in a way "a dream". I have always been interested in Britain and their comedies, like Python.
Open All Hours had what I called "the missing", the feeling of thinking "that's where I want to be". Sure it seems dramatic but if you take it for what it is worth, it is one of those shows you can't forget. Ronnie Barker ... Read More
