Open All Hours

Open All Hours was a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series (26 episodes in all) between 1976 and 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973. It centres around a small grocer’s shop in Balby, a village in South Yorkshire near Doncaster. The store’s owner, Albert Arkwright (played by Ronnie Barker) is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack of being able to sell anything and everything to any passing visitor to his shop. His nephew, Granville (played by David Jason) is the shop’s put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a burgeoning love-life (or, some might say, obsessions with local girls) somehow seem to fall flat. He blames his uncle, in particular for the fact that he has to be up at an extremely early hour of the morning in order to open the shop. Almost every mistake Arkwright makes is followed by a cry of “Ger-Granville! Fer-fetch yer cloth!”. A recurring joke throughout the series revolves around Arkwright’s claim that Granville’s estranged father was Hungarian – an issue which is never resolved. (From Wikipedia)