Still Open All Hours: Series 2, Episode 4

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.

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Series 2, Episode 4

Still Open All Hours. Image shows from L to R: Mavis (Maggie Ollerenshaw), Granville (David Jason). Copyright: BBC

Granville plans a double date with Madge and Mavis but needs to find a way to smarten up Gastric. There's more romance in the air as Mrs Featherstone has her heart set on a new husband and Nurse Gladys is wooed by a former patient, Mick, whose boil she once attended to. Meanwhile, a mysterious new product from the Far East arrives which needs some clever marketing to Eric and Cyril.

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Notes

In some places, this episode is unofficially titled: Past Encounters

Broadcast details

Date: Sunday 10^th January 2016
Time: 7:30pm
Channel: BBC One
Length: 30 minutes

Cast & crew

Cast
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
Nina Wadia	Mrs Hussein
Geoffrey Whitehead	Mr Newbold
Lynda Baron	Nurse Gladys Emmanuel

Guest cast
Gareth Hale	Michael
Des Yankson	Delivery Driver

Writing team
Roy Clarke	Writer

Production team
Dewi Humphreys	Director
Alex Walsh-Taylor	Producer
David Jason	Executive Producer
Gareth Edwards	Executive Producer
Sarah Hitchcock	Associate Producer
Chris Wadsworth	Editor
Mark Lawrence	Editor
David Hitchcock	Production Designer
Max Harris	Composer

Video

Kiss me lips

Eric and Cryril need a little persuading about the manliness of using lip balm.

Featuring: David Jason (Granville), Johnny Vegas (Wet Eric) & Kulvinder Ghir (Cyril).

Press

Radio Times review

Still Open All Hours is one of those comedies that lasts just 30 minutes, yet by the end of the episode you swear you've just lost three hours.

Maybe it's something to do with the leisurely/laboured comedy business and the well-signalled slapstick, tonight involving a gag with a vacuum cleaner than anyone born before 1960 could see coming from 30 miles away in a North Sea fog.

But never mind, a gentle, unexamined life potters on inside that corner shop on an unspecified street in an unspecified era, as wily owner Granville (David Jason) takes delivery of a parcel from North Korea and tries to fix up hopeless Gastric with a date.

Alison Graham, Radio Times, 9th January 2016

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