Open All Hours with Roadshow released "Series One: Episodes 1–3 Comedy Bites" in 2010. In 1984, at which time no new episodes of the series had been produced for two years, a spin-off was proposed based around Lynda Baron's character, Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. Given the working title "Call the Nurse", this spin-off series would have followed Nurse Gladys as she visited various eccentric and demanding patients. The characters of Arkwright and Granville were not written to appear, and Roy Clarke was keen to develop a new set of supporting characters rather than rely on those already built up for "Open All Hours". 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