Open All Hours — Season 4
Open All Hours·Season 4·1985·6 episodes

Season 4

Open All Hours
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Sep1985
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Open All Hours (1985), Season 4 — a BBC sitcom you can watch online on iFILM, six episodes behind the counter of a corner shop that never shuts.

Stingy shopkeeper Arkwright and his put-upon nephew Granville are back, and this run leans hard on Granville's love life. He answers a lonely-hearts ad and lies through his teeth to impress the girl. A rival grocer, Mr Gupta, sets up nearby, so Arkwright packs Granville off undercover — in a sari — to scout the competition. There's a sham housekeeper meant to make Nurse Gladys jealous, Granville passing himself off as a young executive, and a birthday sting built around a phantom inspector from the Good Shopkeepers' Guide.

Roy Clarke keeps the rhythm gentle: Ronnie Barker's stammering patter at the till, a young David Jason as the forever-dogsbody Granville. If you like slow, warm British comedy where not much happens and that's the whole charm, this season fits. Stream Open All Hours Season 4 online on iFILM.

Season 4

6 episodes

  • Soulmate Wanted
    S4·E1

    Soulmate Wanted

    September 1, 1985 · 30 min

    Granville decides it's high time he did something about his single status and places an advert in the lonely hearts column. He actually gets a result but of course he feels he has to lie about himself to the girl in question and presents himself as a yuppie. Leave it to his beloved uncle to ruin it for him.

  • Horse-Trading
    S4·E2

    Horse-Trading

    September 8, 1985 · 30 min

    Arkwright has a rival: corner shop owner Mr Gupta, so he sends Granville undercover – in a sari – to check him out. Arkwright believes he can get one over on his rival by selling him a load of genuine Yorkshire clotheshorses but he has reckoned without Gupta's business skills.

  • The Housekeeper Caper
    S4·E3

    The Housekeeper Caper

    September 15, 1985 · 30 min

    Arkwright believes that he can make Nurse Gladys jealous if he has a live-in housekeeper. This only succeeds in attracting the attention of Mrs Featherstone, the Black Widow herself!

  • The Errand Boy Executive
    S4·E4

    The Errand Boy Executive

    September 22, 1985 · 30 min

    Anxious to impress boutique girl Stephanie ('with a P-H!'), Granville passes himself off as a young executive, claiming that Arkwright is his junior assistant. Unsurprisingly, his uncle is less than happy with this idea.

  • Happy Birthday, Arkwright
    S4·E5

    Happy Birthday, Arkwright

    September 29, 1985 · 30 min

    Nurse Gladys and Granville play a trick on Arkwright, persuading the shopkeeper that a man representing the Good Shopkeepers' Guide is in the area, awarding bonuses to shops whose staff show extra courtesy. Gladys goes undercover as a male inspector and visits, where she is greeted with unusual civility.

  • The Mystical Boudoir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel
    S4·E6

    The Mystical Boudoir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel

    October 6, 1985 · 30 min

    Ever persistent to worm his way into Nurse Gladys' bedroom as well as her affections, Arkwright finds that flattery and chocolates are no use. But he's got a cunning plan to use Granville to impersonate a burglar, wearing a stocking mask to scare Gladys so that Arkwright can come running... into her room.

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