History Series / OpenAllHours

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Mrs. Featherstone to Granville. He tends to squirm when she's around.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Granville and Mavis are keen to rekindle their feelings, but her sister Madge is even keener to keep him away.

After a successful one-off Revival episode in 2013 which scored the Christmas week's highest ratings, a full fifth series titled ''StillOpenAllHours'' and featuring several of the original cast was commissioned, beginning on Boxing Day 2014. In this, Granville has taken over the shop following Arkwright's death.

After a successful one-off Revival episode in 2013 which scored the Christmas week's highest ratings, a full fifth series titled ''Series/StillOpenAllHours'' and featuring several of the original cast was commissioned, beginning on Boxing Day 2014. In this, Granville has taken over the shop following Arkwright's death.

Arkwright is aided and abbetted by his long-suffering nephew Granville, possibly the son of a displaced Hungarian noble and certainly the son of a woman whose promiscuity is the butt of many of Arkwright's jokes, whose romantic and exotic dreams are invariably crushed by the grim reality of life in 1970s South Yorkshire.

* TheFaceless: Mr Bristow, never seen outside his motorcycle helmet and leathers. Actually, TheVoiceless, too. Come to think of it, are we sure he isn't [[TopGear The Stig]]?
* GenerationXerox: ''Still Open All Hours'' shows that Granville did inherit the shop as promised and he's become a lot like Arkwright, with his son Leroy in his former position. He even pokes fun at the identity of Leroy's mother, just like Arkwright did.

* ChickMagnet: Leroy is a little more successful than his dad in the romance department.

* HonestJohnsDealership: Arkwright

* {{Revival}}: "Still Open All Hours", a one-off Christmas special in 2013. Granville is now the proprietor of the shop (and [[GenerationXerox every bit as miserly as Arkwright was]]), with [[MasterApprenticeChain his son as the new errand boy]].

* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: Pretty much everything Arkwright says to Nurse Gladys is riddled with [[UnusualEuphemism Unusual Euphemisms]].

After a successful one-off Revival episode in 2013 which scored the Christmas week's highest ratings, a full fifth series titled Still Open All Hours and featuring several of the original cast was commissioned and will be broadcast in 2015.

A one-off special, ''Still Open All Hours'', was broadcast at Christmas 2013, with Granville having grown up to be [[GenerationXerox just like Arkwright]] (but without the stutter) and the role of put-upon shopboy being taken by his son Leroy (James Baxter).

* {{Revival}}: "Still Open All Hours", a one-off Christmas special in 2013. Granville is now the proprietor of the shop (and every bit as miserly as Arkwright was), with [[MasterApprenticeChain his son as the new errand boy]].

* DawsonCasting: The character of Granville (obviously meant as an inexperienced youth in a low-status "school leaver" job for his uncle) is played by David Jason, who was in his mid-thirties to mid-forties during the series' run.

* {{Revival}}: "Still Open All Hours", a one-off Christmas special in 2013. Granville is now the proprietor of the shop (and every bit as miserly as Arkwright was), with his son as the new errand boy.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]] : ''WaitingForGod'''s Stephanie Cole as Mrs. Delphine Featherstone

** Somewhat debatable. Lines from other characters, including Granville himself, seem to indicate that he may actually be mid-to-late 20s, or even in his 30s, and that he's had an incredibly sheltered life thanks to Arkwright mistreating him.

* TransAtlanticEquivalent: The very short lived mid 80s ABC sitcom ''Open 24 Hours'' was an American adaption of the show, changing the local to a 7-11/Kwik-E-Mart type of establishment.

* ManipulativeBastard: Arkwright is highly skilled in conning people into buying useless junk, especially strangers or newcomers to the area.

* RunningGag: The till's tight spring that snaps back as soon as money is put into it, nearly chopping off fingers as it does.

Ran for 4 series and [[BritishBrevity 26 episodes]], although there were actually 13 years between the pilot and the final episode and the last, and nine years between the first and last series.

A late 1970s sitcom by Roy Clarke (''LastOfTheSummerWine'', ''KeepingUpAppearances''). Along with ''{{Porridge}}'', it was based on one of the more successful items from a series of sitcom try-out pilots by Ronnie Barker called ''Seven of One''.

Ran for 4 series and [[BritishBrevity 26 episodes]].

* SchmuckBait: A lot. For example, in one episode Arkwright cons a southern health inspector into believing that the town is infested with "frats" (ferret/rat hybrids) and that an old lantern he's been trying to get rid of is a "frat detector".

The miserly, late-middle-aged Arkwright (first name unknown; in one episode Granville calls him 'Albert' but the situation suggests he may have made it up) runs a general store in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster (both the shop and the street are real life places). An [[HonestJohnsDealership Honest John]], he prides himself on never letting anyone leave his shop without buying something, and seems to take more pleasure in the thrill of the chase than becoming rich. His work obsession causes friction between him and his fiancée, Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, to whom he remains perpetually engaged while waiting for her mother to die.

Arkwright is aided and abbetted by his long-suffering nephew Granville, possibly the son of a displaced Hungarian noble, whose romantic and exotic dreams are invariably crushed by the grim reality of life in 1970s South Yorkshire.

Arkwright is aided and abbetted by his long-suffering nephew Granville, possibly the son of a displaced Hungarian noble, whose romantic and exotic dreams are invariably crushed by the grim reality of life in 1970s South Yorkshire. Also wants a van.