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
Ronnie Corbett here and tipping my hat to him." Ronnie Corbett Ronald Balfour Corbett, CBE (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and broadcaster, best known for his long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show "The Two Ronnies". He achieved prominence in David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy programme "The Frost Report" (with Barker) and subsequently starred in sitcoms such as "No – That's Me Over Here!", "Now Look Here", and "Sorry!" Corbett was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the son of William Balfour Corbett (1898–1974), a master baker, and his London-born