Pat Kane deserved a round of applause from the studio audience for her turn as the short-sighted old lady. She is note-perfect throughout, and you can see the admiration in the three stars, David Jason especially. I play this clip over and over when I need my spirits lifting. She never fails to work her magic.

Best double act on tv , love watching this show thanks to my grandparents for showing me comedy gold

thank god i was born in the 60's and lived through the best comedy era's in the 60's 70's and 80's and some in the 90's.

@clarea1801

Жыл бұрын

I’m an 80s child but love all the old comedies like this, love thy neighbour, on the buses, Terry and June, and lots more. I think I was born in the wrong decade.

@eddiereece1827

Жыл бұрын

I’m only greatful being born in 98 as my mum was born in 1960. She ended up introducing me to all these old series. No modern comedy compares to these classics, timeless and never not funny, proper belly laughs ever 15-30 seconds.

@knitpurlsquirrelwithgrannydee

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I agree! I’m a ‘59 model myself!

@susansherlock6934

Жыл бұрын

Same here! I was born in 1963...

@jonathanwalker2246

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1960 and actually lived not far from where Open all Hours was filmed. Today's supposed 'comedy's' can't even touch programmer like this.

What a legend Ronnie Barker is plays this roll so well

@SpeccyMan

2 ай бұрын

role

Ronnie Barker was just the best ♥️

@denismeans2910

Жыл бұрын

The entire cast was awesome. The "Still Open All Hours" was equally great. Sad both shows ended so abruptly.

@aaronflavahogg

Жыл бұрын

Definitely agree. Every programme he was in he played perfectly

Good old comedy classics, I watch these shows everyday, never get tired of watching I enjoy seeing more compared to what's on tv today.

@tolfan4438

Жыл бұрын

There were plenty of stinkers back then too but nice sentiment none the less

@tutumakairau9540

Жыл бұрын

me too before bed love love the show R.I.P Ronnie Barker R.I.P Lynda Baron Thank you so much for the fun & laughter you gave me.

@britmum9

Жыл бұрын

Davip Jasop died

@maryoneill8032

9 ай бұрын

😅😂

This always gives me a warm, cozy, nostalgic feeling, akin to laying on the sofa, with a crackling log fire, sipping a hot mug of Ovaltine. 💚

I can say Roy Clarke was a genius in bringing us 3 amazing classic comedy sitcoms and characters from them. Keeping Up Appearances -The Bucket Woman, Last Of The Summer Wine - Compo and Nora Batty and lastly Open All Hours - Awkwright and Granville. We know Kathy was also in Open All Hours too as Mrs Blewitt. Ronnie and David Jason their chemistry is remarkable. They just worked so well together. ❤️ Every show very much RIP to Bill Owen, Kathy Staff, Lynda Baron Ronnie B 🌈🙏 gone but never forgotten 😘

@sammyolive3800

Жыл бұрын

Patricia Routledge is still with us ..

@sarakirk9542

Жыл бұрын

@@sammyolive3800 my bad - edited

@susansherlock6934

Жыл бұрын

Kathy Staff was Doris Luke in Crossroads...

@susansherlock6934

Жыл бұрын

Yes, we forget the gifted writers when we talk about the programmes...

@bon6461

5 ай бұрын

Aye, spot on mate. Ronnie and Jason play great muckers and who couldn't love Barbara Flynn. I only wish she had a bigger part. Roy Clarke was ahead of his time with British humour. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant, Ronnie Barker, and David Jason were made for each other 👍😃😃.

@katherinebrazonis7802

Жыл бұрын

What a wonderful perfect team. They played off each other so well. I wish we had more teams like them in the USA.

@scottkelly1665

4 ай бұрын

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@johnhosp6824

3 ай бұрын

King Ronnie the best

"I wish I'd stayed where I was. More coconuts in there than in here". Best line ever! ❤

David Jason a brilliant actor

@eileenbell8965

Жыл бұрын

One of our best

@mikeryan7213

Жыл бұрын

But good as he is, Ronnie barker was in different league entirely

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more 😅👌🏻

I nearly fell off my seat laughing at the customer who entered the store and spoke to the mops in the rack. She played the part down to a tee. Hilarious 😂

@edmayhem

Жыл бұрын

There's more staff then customers in this shop

@janicewright-eq6je

Жыл бұрын

I do agree 🤣

@MrVavant

8 ай бұрын

Reminds me of eli from last of the summer wine

@RyanGriffiths28

4 ай бұрын

​@MrVavant it's his wife😂😂😂

@scottkelly1665

4 ай бұрын

hjuioojgfrfthffhhhjufessasajnnuhuuioggguugg

One of the best comedy shows ever on the BBC and a great favourite of mine.

A brilliant partner ship Ronnie Barker and David Jason

These were aways so good and you can never remember all the amazing one-liners, I tend to forget how old these episodes are, except for such brilliance, in acting, writing, set dressing and everything.

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

I hear you. 👌🏻

Absolutely fantastic timeless classic comedy ggggg Granville ffff fetch your cloth lol lol 😂😂😂😂 The late Ronnie Barker such a iconic comedic actor and also David Jason such icons both of them I can watch open all hours numerous times and still double up with laughter 😂😂

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

So true.

Ronnie Barker King of comedy ❤ well missed 😂

I've been watching these for years, Each episode is work of art, Bravo!

@annettefowler4704

6 ай бұрын

Me to, i never get tierd of watching them😂

"Cover me up, cover me up!" "Which part is your up?" Gets me every time :D

@Medietos

Жыл бұрын

What does "your up" mean..? no, I know that,- what does it mean? What makes him ask?

This is one of the scenes I remember laughing hard at as a young child. It was so funny

@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794

Жыл бұрын

Do you mean the lady who is short-sighted ? Yet no name in the credits !!

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

Yeh it was good. English humour. They don't understand it now good egood days 👍

Wat a great comedy of all time such a great laugh for everyone who can remember it

No woke .... hilarious episodes 🤩

The lady in the red duffle coat and Ronnie barker together pure genius I don't know who she is but genius just the same

@christinehall6441

2 жыл бұрын

She reminded me of Joan Sims

@jamesjkeyes2005

Жыл бұрын

She had me laughing

@susansherlock6934

Жыл бұрын

I think it is Pat Kane ( Patricia Kane).

@rosemaryclarke2348

Жыл бұрын

Joan Simms!

@rosemaryclarke2348

Жыл бұрын

I stand corrected, it wasn't Joan Simms. I've never heard of the actress though.

The lady in red managed to completely steal the show in the presence of the three regular stalwarts of the show, with her beautiful and believable acting. One of my favourite episodes.

@jayconroy8715

7 ай бұрын

I agree,she had me in fits of laughter.

@WildbunchDM

7 ай бұрын

@@jayconroy8715 She looks adorable. Like a teddy bear put together in haste and not quite correctly.. 😊

@beatricewoods8377

4 ай бұрын

Just found this show never miss it also loved last of summer wine

@tomvecchione3475

4 ай бұрын

@@beatricewoods8377 great shows that stand the test of time for sure. Ronnie Barker was so talented.

@WildbunchDM

4 ай бұрын

This show is a magnificent illustration of Ronnie Barker's comedic genius, right alongside David Jason who deserves equal credit.

J D Bodman is still in business ! The phone numbers has changed , which is pnly to be expected . That has fair brightened my day 😊 .

@lisathompson2154

Ай бұрын

I also look up stuff like this

David Jason served his apprenticeship with The Master Craftsman of timing and comedy.

Hysterical!! Never saw this one and thought I had seen them all.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Ammazingly hilarious! Deletes stress off your day page! 😅 David Jason is a natural! The way he acts is remarkable! He portrays awesomely. Bravo David! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Along with Porridge this was the best of Ronnie Barker. Great characters. I remember a corner shop just like this. The bacon slicer fascinated me as a toddler.

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

The shop must’ve had its own smell! I remember the one in our block. It smelled fruity from all the flavored sugars and citric acid added in bubblegums and lollipops! 😅 The smell should stay with me forever.. and I have accidentally found it in the box of Bonux’s laundry powder, lemon aroma! 😌😂 I washed using Ariel but since I found that aroma and I been stacking them boxes in my cabinet for years! 👌🏻 Good luck to you in finding your “smell”! 😂🤚🏻

@saturdayplayer2492

Жыл бұрын

@@hana.the.writer5074 thanks

Beautiful!!! Thank you! Love from Greece.

Love that old lady who wears big thick glasses and talks to Linda lucardi cardboard cut out

@ssamuel5570

2 жыл бұрын

She reminds me of Eli in 'Last of the summer wine'!

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

That’s Patricia Kane.

Aubrey Beardsley prints...that Granville's got a bitta class!

Granville is actually older than Mrs Featherstone in real life.

@thespiritmessage

2 жыл бұрын

and the same age as Gladys

@TomJohnson67

Жыл бұрын

I knew Stephanie Cole always played characters much older than her age, but this is really surprising.

@susansherlock6934

Жыл бұрын

@@TomJohnson67 she was brilliant as the doctor in Tenko!

I grew up in Boston in the 60's so I was always curious about bbc and shows you guys over the pond watched. Thank you for putting this on, I've always felt attached to England in the back of my mind, like I missed the place, even though I've never been there

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

Hi John ! British sitcoms are the best ! Check KZread for stuff like "Are you being served ?", "Wicar of Dibley", "To the manor born", and "The darling buds of May". (In the latter, David Jason is slightly older, playing "Pop Larkin", of a rather unruly family in Kent, England). Love from Norway 😉 🇧🇻

@jamiesonfamily1201

9 ай бұрын

I was born in 79 from mobile alabama at 9 I broke foot and started watching BBC when apt went off the air at midnight, are you being served, keeping up appearances were what I got hooked on. But only 60 70 & early 80's British comedy other than basil rathburn and nigel Bruce as Sherlock ...comfort blanket as well as porridge, rising damp, and Reginald Perrin. I am a 39 year old widow and this is my love

How come when she died, they buried her husband 😅🤣😂

@francesbernard2445

Ай бұрын

What episode of the BBC sitcom, "Open All Night" was that?

Best comedy up there with fools and towers

These older comedies are easy and cosy to watch. Reminds me when it was the norm to have a grocers come ironmongers, newsagent etc on the corner of streets. Handy when shops still closed Sundays and you'd forgotten to by bread, sugar etc. Tragic loss when they got priced out of business by huge overheads and in those days ( not now) cheaper prices in supermarkets.

@Medietos

Жыл бұрын

Christine Hall. oh are the cosy shops on the corner gone? I enjoyed it so much as a teenage exchange student in England.

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

@@Medietos there no corner shops anymore

@beverlygannon4141

Жыл бұрын

Agree.....out.last corner shop went circa 89,....two mins walk get milk bred now drive miles or buses .... Loved this program 👍

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

@@beverlygannon4141 That’s crazy! No convenience store? There should be one in every block.

"She'll never get her nickerlegs over my washing line." lol

I’ve been watching this episode for decades and I learned one thing that we married before my husband before 34 not 44 or 54 😂😂 Thank you God!!

These two clowns were absolute comedy gold god bless them in heaven

@deboraharmstrong7081

8 ай бұрын

They are not both in Heaven.

18:38. Mrs Red Coat had me laughing

@susansherlock6934

Жыл бұрын

I think the red coated short sighted customer is Patricia Kane ( Pat Kane in the list of cast names at the end)...

"Which of you fellas is Arkwright? Now that really got me!!

Absolute classic Not an offensive or abusive word said Not like the crap created today

@dannysullivan633

Жыл бұрын

So true comedy classic from a much simpler time, I sure do miss those Times

That customer in the red jacket was so good. Was that Pat Kane? I wish she'd have been in more episodes. I thought she was quite funny. She and Ronnie Barker played so well off each other.

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

Pat Kane played in this episode ! 😄

@FrancoiseBonnefoy1

Жыл бұрын

@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Do you know what else she has done? I would love to watch more. Thanks.

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

@@FrancoiseBonnefoy1 Pat Kane seemes to have done smaller parts in later years. Like in "Vicar of Dibley", and "Stella". No wonder really, considering she's 94 ! ( born 1929)...😄 I'm afraid I don't know much about her previous work. Other that she's been a stage actress too. My guess is she's as versatile as most top British actors ! Probably being both acting, singing, and dancing. 🤗

@FrancoiseBonnefoy1

Жыл бұрын

@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Oh thanks so much. I have the Vicar of Dibley DVD set. I'll have to look. I don't remember her. And yes, it never ceases to amaze me just how versatile so many British actors are.

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

@@FrancoiseBonnefoy1 In "Vicar of Dibley" ms Kane appears in 3 episodes, (from 1994). As "Doris Trott", I think. (Rather small part). As for British actors, they have be good, just to be noticed. The actors with the best agents get all the top tier jobs. And of course they're the ones who get titled. Like Dame Maggie Smith. And Dame Judi Dench. The latter bagging all the best parts, according to her good friend "Mags"... (The Dowager Countess of Grantham frowning at the mere thought of being surpassed) 😘

Look at Arkwrights face when that woman tells Granville about the brown loaves 😜

The best part of this is at 14:30 when Granville is laughing and Linda Baron is having to restrain herself from also bursting out laughing 😂.

Fantastic classic comedy from some of the best . Nurse Gladys is a real treat, sexy lady .

@jdrancho1864

Жыл бұрын

just died this year, 5 march 22, aged 82.

@garulusglandarius6126

Жыл бұрын

@@jdrancho1864 aww 😢 bless her

@ammo8713

Жыл бұрын

YES....SHE IS A BIG GIRL.OO

Love this episode

You never seen Arkwright with any fright to the thought of the Black Widow being the living House Keeper. He was so quick to get out on the bike.

Arkwright uses the expression to 'faff' when speaking with Granville. My uncle used to say to me that " I faff doodle faff". According to Urban Dictionary, it means to spend time doing little, rather than getting on with something properly. It's a classic British Idiom: A common non-literal saying within a district, community or class of people, to be found in all countries. For example " to faff about " ; to "speak of the devil" speak about someone, then they turn up. "Kick the bucket" a disrespectful way to say someone has died. Idioms can be amusing & give colour to a language, without being offensive.

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

Right 👌🏻

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

Poor Granville. Being accused of fa-fa-fa-faffing about....🤣

"She'll never get her knicker legs over my washing line, that Black Widow...." 🤣 👜🕸🧤🕸🕷

Granville cooks, bakes, irons, cleans up the store delivers groceries, Arkwright has a slave more than a relative

@fikent5252

Жыл бұрын

It’s not real life, it’s a comedy show, get a grip !!!!!

@maryannsarkady7950

Жыл бұрын

@@fikent5252 no, really ? Duhhhhhhhh

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

@@fikent5252 🙄 Everyone is entitled to speak their minds! You know book clubs discuss fiction too .. and this space is for exchanging thoughts. You don’t like it.. rest your pretty fingers, please!

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

Well, Arkwright, dear is an elderly who’s legitimately surviving by his nephew, Granville. It aches how his life’s like though. 😖

@maryannsarkady7950

Жыл бұрын

@@hana.the.writer5074 thank you !

💙 Wish sounds was increased, Too low even w/headphones. TY for these! ✔💯👍👏💙

Granville fetch yer cloth!

its just plain slapstick thats why its GREAT SPECIAL tongue in cheek super especial LOVE IT AND MAKES ME PROUD TO BRE BRE BRE BRE BE BE BE BRITISH FROM THE UK

"Who's Sir Cecil???? Not Sir Sir Sir Sir Sir Cecil Its CCCCCCCCCecil 😘😜" You couldn't write it these days Its priceless

I have said it before a brilliant partnership Ronnie Barker and David Jason

The glass man Joe Belcher was also in OFAH To Hull and back.

Customer???? I'm not a customer.......She's not a customer (Granvilles face is pricless😏) Whoever the woman in red coat is hilarious 🤣

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

It’s Patricia Kane.

My brother in England has just reminded me about this program…some good and some extremely bad memories but very funny🤣I think you have to be English to appreciate these films 🥰

@sojourningteddybear6838

Жыл бұрын

I’m a Black American from South Carolina and I LOVE these shows! 😊

@stephenwain7928

Жыл бұрын

Dead.rite

@hollidionnegillis6541

Жыл бұрын

I’m an American and I just discovered this show. Love it!

@evelynschmidt7194

Жыл бұрын

Well that’s good to hear…please don’t be offended for any reason…we real English people are never intentionally nasty 😊

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

Ah well, if you know the true core of the Brits, you soon learn to love the mostly underdog local life of rural or small town Britain. It's proper gold this.... Love from Norway 🤗🇧🇻

Don't talk to him he dont even work here that was good

@grecosgreecedaz6026

3 жыл бұрын

Classic lol

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

🤣 At least he cared for her feelings and cut the long explaining which was going to be a burden to him short. 😆

I agree, Open all hours, Still open all hours, Only fools and horses, Till death do us part, Love thy neighbour

So very funny I love watching most enjoyable

Ga Ga Granville, Fetch yur cloth 😂 Bare Bare bottles 😂 The world's most valuable OXO tin 😂😂😂

I think they're all brilliant actors and so funny 👏👏👏🤣😂🤣

Brilliant 👍

Loved this ....👍.good days. Good stuff on telly funny stuff ..now it evil🤢

I'm severely sight impaired and I have to wear thick specs, but rather than going all holier than thou I still find it funny; along with all the other episodes. The recent remake was a total disaster and thanfully hasn't popped up on YT.

When she died they buried her husband! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@AlexWilliams-qf3rp

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah...I love that line

Class show

So glad to be watching. Last Of The Summer Wine

I loved Granvilles boxers

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

🫣🤭

Neither Open All Hours, nor Last of the Summer Wine were the out and out funniest comedies but they were full of pathos and love.

Nice to see a copy of The Melody Maker on the rack in that pre internet world. When if you wanted to watch a programme you had to BE there when it was broadcast. No catch up or i player. That is why the audience figures were so huge.

I can’t believe the nurse actually admitted she was his lady friend in this one.

@HookBeak_66

Жыл бұрын

I spotted that remark. She was always quick to side with Granville, but even quicker to expose Arkwright to ridicule. Then you'd see 'G' & the nurse LOLing at him, where he would take it & say nothing.

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

She has to.. to let whoever applying for the job to be know their future limits.

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

@@HookBeak_66 Evidently he was so troubled to care. 😂

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131

Жыл бұрын

Some would do anything for a couple of stale, old tea cakes. For their live in mum....🫖

I’m not a customer , on saint cessal day

@MrLibra56

3 жыл бұрын

St Cecil

Can't stop laughing 🤣😂❤️

It's strange to think that when this was filmed Linda Baron (nurse Gladys) was two years older than Stephanie Cole (Mrs. Featherstone).

The woman who comes into the shop at 17:13 steals a loaf of bread without paying... 😅😂

@katiedotson704

11 күн бұрын

An absolute master of her craft. ❤💯

Thanks 😊!

The season Ronnie never wanted to do.

I can’t help thinking the lady with longish bob hairstyle wearing green cardigan reminds me of Ilse Koch!!

😂i Agree..she was brillante 😂

Really well doen and so funny. I laughed mióre at Thin Blue Line though, but it may be bcause their speech was better and clearer to a foreigner.

My favorite strick lolol 🤗😎

That lady at 18:30 didn’t pay for that bread 😆

@Delsin4077

2 жыл бұрын

she didn't take any bread she was changing her friends order for the next day

I enjoy watching this show. These guys are so funny. I wonder if Ronnie Barker was like in real life, because on this show he doesn't like to spend money. An honestly the more I watch this show the more money I save. And I love me some David Jason.

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

Uh-oh!! It’s the beginning! 😅 Don’t be surprised if in the near future your neighbor turns out a widow! 😂

Barbara Flynn the milk woman played the wife of Fitz in cracker, also I never understood why they sold nearly everything in the shop but didn't sell milk

@_to_-cn8wd

Жыл бұрын

Might it be because households would have milk delivered every day so there wasn't much point in corner shops stocking any?

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

No place for a refrigerator 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😅 They have a freezer for ice cream though! Besides, more appliances means larger bills! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

@susanmclellan6447

29 күн бұрын

Nobody bought fresh milk from a shop back then. It was all delivered by the milkman. They only sold dried milk evaporated milk and sometimes sterilised milk.

The lady in red when she bumps in to Ronnie barker must have stepped or kicked him afterwards cause Ronnie grunts twice blooper they left in Because it was so funny 😅

Such comedy, today, would be banned, along with the rest of the best era ever

who is the actress 20 min in ? Think she plays this scene brilliantly! It's one of my all-time favourite comedy scenes 👍👏

@lionharehart

Жыл бұрын

Stephanie Cole. She's still alive.

@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794

Жыл бұрын

@@lionharehart The lady in the red coat who's short-sighted etc is not Stephanie Cole !! S Cole plays Mrs Featherstone !

@hana.the.writer5074

Жыл бұрын

Patricia Kane

@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794

Жыл бұрын

@@hana.the.writer5074 thanks! I'll look her up. She makes this episode rock !

Pat Kane was brilliant as the old lady

I would watch this but the music is so depressing it makes me want to cry.

He went from strenght to strenght.

Saint C... C... C... C... Cecil 😂

24:27-24:32, I laugh every time I see or even think of that moment.

I used to live on the same street as the shop in Doncaster

shes not a customer !

I love how the character Granville has to only be often painting letters on the window on that set while both the character Awkright and Granville too soldier on with having to experience sleep deprivation while having to rememger things like refraining from stuttering. So funny how Granville doesn't act more grateful during that sitcom. Didn't one president of the United States have a stuttering problem too?

@katiedotson704

11 күн бұрын

That would be our current president, President Joe Biden. He has openly discussed this challenge that would have distroyed the political career of a lesser man. He shares this spotlight with King George VI, whose story is told in the 2010 movie, "The King's Speech".

There’s a chicken in here!