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Season 1
March 25, 1973

Season 1

01. Open All Hours

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

30min
March 25, 1973

02. Prisoner and Escort

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.

30min
April 1, 1973

03. My Old Man

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

30min
April 8, 1973

04. Spanner's Eleven

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

30min
April 15, 1973

05. Another Fine Mess

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

30min
April 22, 1973

06. One Man's Meat

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.

30min
April 29, 1973

07. I'll Fly You for a Quid

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).

30min
May 6, 1973