Episodes

1: Open All Hours

Mar 25, 1973

Arkwright, a miserly North-country shopkeeper and his put-upon nephew Granville.

2: Prisoner and Escort

Apr 1, 1973

Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal and his escorts — soft-hearted Mr Barrowclough (Brian Wilde) and authoritarian Mr Mackay (Fulton Mackay) going up to prison.

3: My Old Man

Apr 8, 1973

Sam Cobbett is a cantankerous,retired railwayman whose house is demolished by the council,forcing him to live in a tower block with his daughter Doris and her husband,whom he sees as posh and with whom there is mutual antagonism. Later made into a series by Yorkshire Television, starring Clive Dunn

4: Spanner's Eleven

Apr 15, 1973

The tale of ailing football team Ashfield Athletic and its trainer, local cabbie/hot-dog salesman/chauffeur Norman Spanner.

5: Another Fine Mess

Apr 22, 1973

Ronnie Barker and Roy Castle as two Laurel and Hardy impersonators who become their characters as an evening's farcical events escalate around them.

6: One Man's Meat

Apr 29, 1973

Alan Joyce is a fat,greedy man whose wife devises a plan to keep him off food for a day. She goes out and takes not only all the food from the house but Alan's clothes.

7: I'll Fly You for a Quid

May 6, 1973

A Welsh family, the Owens, who bet on absolutely everything and anything, discover that their grandfather backed a winner on the day he died — but where is the betting slip? This pilot gave Ronnie Barker the idea for The Magnificent Evans (1984).

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