Still Open All Hours now running the shop with his son Leroy (played by James Baxter), after inheriting it from Arkwright. Clarke wrote the script in two weeks, and production began in October 2013. The exterior scenes were filmed at the original location at Lister Avenue in Doncaster from 18 to 20 November 2013. The interior scenes were recorded on 3 December 2013 at dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford in front of a studio audience. A 30-minute documentary accompanying the show's return, entitled "Open All Hours: A Celebration", aired on 27 December 2013, the day after the new episode was broadcast, on BBC One. On
Ronnie Barker best light entertainment performance four times, among other awards, and received an OBE in 1978. Later television sitcoms such as "The Magnificent Evans" and "Clarence" were less successful and he retired in December 1987. The following year, he opened an antiques shop with his wife, Joy. After 1999, he appeared in smaller, non-comic roles in films. He died of heart failure on 3 October 2005, aged 76. Barker was born on 25 September 1929 at 70, Garfield Street, Bedford, Bedfordshire, the only son of Leonard William (inexplicably, but always, known as "Tim") Barker and Edith Eleanor (née Carter; known as