Granville (Open All Hours) his uncle who is a practical man (and a miser), Granville is a carefree man, yet is treated as if he is still a child. Its never officially revealed how old Granville actually is in the original series, but in series 2, Arkwright does mention a Duke visiting the area in 1949, 9 months before Granville was born, making him around 33 in the 1981 series. By the time of "Still Open All Hours", Arkwright has long died and Granville has inherited the shop as promised by Arkwright, and has a young son, Leroy. Despite their radically different personalities and
Shelly Manne & His Men Play Checkmate "The Penguin Guide to Jazz" called it "nothing too memorable; just a very competent and thoroughly enjoyable jazz disc." "All compositions by John Williams" Shelly Manne & His Men Play Checkmate Shelly Manne & His Men Play Checkmate (full title Shelly Manne & His Men Play the Music of John Williams from the TV Series Checkmate) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne's group Shelly Manne & His Men performing John Williams' score from the TV show "Checkmate", recorded in 1961 and released on the Contemporary label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "None of the melodies caught on