Still Open All Hours
- TV sitcom
- BBC One
- 2013 - 2019
- 41 episodes (6 series)
Update of classic 1970s/80s sitcom Open All Hours, starring David Jason as Granville, now the owner of Arkwright's grocery store. Also features James Baxter, Stephanie Cole, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Brigit Forsyth, Johnny Vegas and more.
Streaming rank this week: 7,243
Episode menu
Series 2 - Christmas Special
Further details
It's Christmas at Arkwright's, and Granville has his eye on a tree which gives him more than he bargained for. Nurse Gladys gossips with Mrs Featherstone about tactics for her new job, and Eric and Cyril embark on a new fitness plan to impress their wives.
Meanwhile, as Granville plans a cosy festive drinks party, can he and Gastric tempt Madge into the Christmas spirit?
Notes
In some places, this episode is unofficially titled: Tree Crazy
Broadcast details
- Date
- Saturday 26th December 2015
- Time
- 8pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 30 minutes
Repeats
Show past repeats
Cast & crew
| David Jason | Granville |
| James Baxter | Leroy |
| Stephanie Cole | Mrs Featherstone |
| Maggie Ollerenshaw | Mavis |
| Brigit Forsyth | Madge |
| Johnny Vegas | Wet Eric |
| Kulvinder Ghir | Cyril |
| Tim Healy | Gastric |
| Sally Lindsay | Kath Agnew |
| Nina Wadia | Mrs Hussein |
| Lynda Baron | Nurse Gladys Emmanuel |
| Duggie Brown | Dog Man |
| Anne Rutter | Mrs Wilson |
| Roy Clarke | Writer |
| Dewi Humphreys | Director |
| Alex Walsh-Taylor | Producer |
| David Jason | Executive Producer |
| Gareth Edwards | Executive Producer |
| Sarah Hitchcock | Associate Producer |
| Chris Wadsworth | Editor |
| David Hitchcock | Production Designer |
| Max Harris | Composer |
Press
Radio Times review
It's easy to see why Roy Clarke's revival of his much-loved Ronnie Barker comedy Open All Hours is such a blazing hit. It takes its audience back to comfortable times, when being from Yorkshire was inherently funny, when men were hapless fools, women were either battleaxes or well-upholstered sirens and when everyone loved a bit of mild smut.
There isn't a mean bone in Still Open All Hours's body as grown men have silly fun with an over-sized Christmas tree, a sinister one-eyed Santa mannequin and a trampoline. Parsimonious local shopkeeper Granville (David Jason) remains at the mercy of the supernaturally self-operating till and the terrifying women get all the best lines. "How long since you were in curlers on a Wednesday afternoon?" wonders flinty Mrs Featherstone of comely Gladys Emmanuel.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 23rd December 2015