Still Open All Hours the original series, the cast includes a more regular group of characters and additional side-plots concerning them, and features the return of Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole, and Maggie Ollerenshaw as their respective characters in "Open All Hours". Following the 2013 special, the show has run five full-length series, with the first of them premiering on 26 December 2014. Set within the same small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, the show focuses on the life of Granville (David Jason), now much older and the owner of Arkwright's shop since his uncle's death. Despite his youth's
The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town it was actually Barker's co-star from "Open All Hours", David Jason who was responsible for the sound effects. Jason confirmed this in his 2013 autobiography. One episode featured Ronnie Corbett as the diminutive yet domineering Queen Victoria and Barker as her browbeaten son "Edward, Prince of Wales" (in reality the future King Edward VII was known to his family as "Bertie"), which was a parody of the recent TV series starring Timothy West. On August 7th 2015 it was announced that a stage version was being produced by The Ministry of Entertainment. This was adapted by Lee Moone and included