Ronnie Barker same year, determined not to be remembered only as Fletcher, Barker opted to end "Porridge" after three series and instead focused on the second pilot "Open All Hours", alongside David Jason. Barker starred as Arkwright, a money-grabbing, stuttering shopkeeper. Arkwright's stutter was not in the script; Barker was inspired to use it by Melvyn's performance and use of a stutter in a 1955 play the two performed at the Palace Theatre called "Hot Water". "Open All Hours" aired one series in 1976 on BBC Two but was not renewed due to low ratings. As a result, Barker backtracked on his
Elsa Barker Man" in 1915, Barker developed an interest in psychoanalysis. By 1919 she was studying 14 hours a day. From 1928 to 1930 she lived on the French Riviera. Barker died August 31, 1954. Elsa Barker Elsa Barker (1869–1954) was an American novelist, short-story writer and poet. She became known for three books "Letters from a Living Dead Man" (1914), "War Letters from the Living Dead Man" (1915), and "Last Letters From the Living Dead Man" (1919), that she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing. Barker was born in 1869 in Leicester, Vermont. Her parents both