Granville (Open All Hours) his uncle who is a practical man (and a miser), Granville is a carefree man, yet is treated as if he is still a child. Its never officially revealed how old Granville actually is in the original series, but in series 2, Arkwright does mention a Duke visiting the area in 1949, 9 months before Granville was born, making him around 33 in the 1981 series. By the time of "Still Open All Hours", Arkwright has long died and Granville has inherited the shop as promised by Arkwright, and has a young son, Leroy. Despite their radically different personalities and
Ronnie Barker the show continued its ratings success. Both shows placed in the top ten of the 2004 poll to determine Britain's Best Sitcom; "Porridge" finished seventh and "Open All Hours" eighth. Barker's next sitcom, "The Magnificent Evans", which was about a Welsh photographer and aired in 1984, was not successful. His final sitcom, "Clarence" in which he played Clarence Sale, a removal man with failing sight, aired in 1988. Barker wrote the show himself, again using a pseudonym, this time as "Bob Ferris". In 1987, before "Clarence" aired and after rejecting Hall's offer of the part of Falstaff in a Royal