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Season 1 episodes (7)
1 Open All Hours
3/25/73
Season-only
First-ever episode of the classic comedy series about miserly shopkeeper Arkwright and his downtrodden nephew and assistant Granville.
2 Prisoner and Escort
4/1/73
Season-only
The pilot episode of the classic comedy series about the inmates of HM Slade Prison. For wily old lag Fletcher, en route to incarceration, the prospect of spending the next five years studying woodwork and botany in the halls as a guest of the Queen provokes only one thought - escape
3 My Old Man
4/8/73
Season-only
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.
4 Spanners Eleven
4/15/73
Season-only
The story of hopeless football team Ashfield Athletic FC and its coach, local hot-dog salesman Albert Spanner.
5 Another Fine Mess
4/22/73
Season-only
When Harry and Sydney plan to impersonate Laurel and Hardy, it all gets a bit close to the real thing.
6 One Man's Meat
4/29/73
Season-only
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
5/6/73
Season-only
Grandpa Owen dies concealing a winning betting slip. His son Evan Owen and his gambling-mad family are desperate to prove that "you can't take it with you".
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Seven one-off comedies all starring Ronnie Barker.
Comedy
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March 4, 2020
Used to own dvd so fantastic episodes and worth a five star rating to Ronnie Barker