Open All Hours Open All Hours Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's comedy anthology series, "Seven of One" (1973). "Open All Hours" ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll. A sequel, entitled "Still Open All Hours", was created in 2013. The setting is a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a
Charlotte Barker Charlotte Barker Charlotte Barker (born 1962) is a British actress. Born in Willesden, London, Barker is the only daughter of Ronnie Barker and Joy Tubb. As an actress she worked mostly in theatre. Her television debut came in the film "Frankie and Johnnie" (1985). The same year she appeared in episodes of the television sitcoms "Open All Hours" (with her father) and "Fresh Fields", then in 1987 she was in the film "Wish You Were Here" and also in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel. Other parts came in "The Widowmaker" (1990) and the crime series "Maigret" (1992) with