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Season 1

  • S01E01 Open All Hours (Pilot)

    • March 25, 1973
    • BBC One

    Granville tells Arkwright that he's been told that Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's car has been seen parked outside another man's house every night. Arkwright is consumed by jealousy and worries about it all day. That evening, Arkwright decides to tackle Nurse Gladys about her nocturnal visits. He pretends to have hurt his arm and goes to visit her. She sees through his ruse and gives him something unpleasant to drink. He finally tells her what he's really come about. She explains that she's been visiting her sister and there's nowhere to park her car outside her sister's house. Granville takes a fancy to a young lady petrol pump attendant. He bemoans the fact that he has to use a shop bike when he'd rather have a van to drive. He's also depressed about the fact that working all hours in the shop doesn't leave him any time for a social life.

  • S01E02 Full Of Mysterious Promise

    • February 20, 1976
    • BBC One

    Arkwright buys a load of damaged goods. The snag with them is that they are tinned goods without labels! He then tries to foist them off onto his customers.

  • S01E03 A Mattress On Wheels

    • February 27, 1976
    • BBC One

    Granville is fed up with having to do his rounds on his bike and tries to talk Arkwright into buying a van. Granville hopes that a mattress in the back of it will help his love life - and maybe Arkwright's, too!

  • S01E04 A Nice Cosy Little Disease

    • March 5, 1976
    • BBC One

    Arkwright tries to find the perfect disease to pretend to go down with in order to get the attention of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel who he feels has been neglecting him.

  • S01E05 Beware Of The Dog

    • March 12, 1976
    • BBC One

    After a bungled burglary on his premises, Arkwright decided the time is right for a guard dog for the shop. However, instead of a real dog, he tries to fool everyone with just the sound of a dog! Meanwhile, Granville thinks he could be the father of Maureen's baby, Eric!

  • S01E06 Well Catered Funeral

    • March 19, 1976
    • BBC One

    Parslow, an old friend of Arkwright dies and Arkwright handles the catering for the funeral, hopefully with a large profit coming his way!

  • S01E07 Apples and Self Service

    • March 26, 1976
    • BBC One

    Arkwright starts a sales drive to try and get rid of a large stock of apples that he had over-ordered.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Laundry Blues

    • March 1, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, having seen Granville struggling with the washing, tells Arkwright that he must buy a new washing machine. Arkwright has to come up with a plan so that she thinks he has done as she requests. He gets Neville to drop off a new machine, sneak round the back of the shop and take it away again, leaving behind a second-hand machine instead!

  • S02E02 The Reluctant Traveller

    • March 8, 1981
    • BBC One

    Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Arkwright are finally going to spend the night away at a hotel. Little does she know that the hotel is round the block! Whilst they are away, Granville is entertaining the milk-woman. Arkwright also has a problem with an over-tight money belt!

  • S02E03 Fig Biscuits and Inspirational Toilet Rolls

    • March 18, 1981
    • BBC One

    Arkwright once again is struggling to sell goods that no-one wants to buy. He therefore tries a special promotion to get rid of the goods, namely fig biscuits and toilet rolls with messages printed on them.

  • S02E04 The New Suit

    • March 22, 1981
    • BBC One

    Arkwright has to buy a new suit - on Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's say so.

  • S02E05 Arkwright's Mobile Store

    • March 29, 1981
    • BBC One

    In a bid to prove to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel that he means to expand his business, he buys a van so that Arkwright's Stores can have a mobile store.

  • S02E06 Shedding at the Wedding

    • April 5, 1981
    • BBC One

    Arkwright goes to a wedding with Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. His suit smells of mothballs and he has to hang his trousers out of Gladys' car to air them. After his trousers are blown away and run over by a tractor, he has to borrow her trousers!

  • S02E07 St. Albert's Day

    • April 19, 1981
    • BBC One

    Arkwright invents a Saint's day so that Granville can check the pockets of a foreign visitor who he suspects of shoplifting.

Season 3

  • S03E01 An Errand Boy by the Ear

    • March 21, 1982
    • BBC One

    The customers are upset by Granville continually being dragged around by the ear by Arkwright

  • S03E02 The Ginger Men

    • March 28, 1982
    • BBC One

    Once again Arkwright has overstocked on goods. This time he has a consignment of Ginger Cake to get rid of. By pretending that it has aphrodisiac properties, he hopes to sell the lot.

  • S03E03 Duet for Solo Bicycle

    • April 4, 1982
    • BBC One

    A grocer's bike with a squeaky wheel is definitely ruining Granville's attempts to woo the girls, especially Wendy who suffers the embarrassment of being escorted by Granville and his squeak!

  • S03E04 How to Ignite Your Errand Boy...

    • April 11, 1982
    • BBC One

    Granville is tasked with making home-made firelighters, an essential ingredient being his shredded disco shirt.

  • S03E05 The Man from Down Under

    • April 18, 1982
    • BBC One

    Arkwright has a rival for Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's attention, as a visitor from Australia returns to his old stomping ground.

  • S03E06 The Cool Cocoa Tin Lid

    • April 25, 1982
    • BBC One

    Granville gets rid of his old image by wearing shades and snappy threads, complete with a ""medallion"" made out of a cocoa tin lid.

Season 4

  • S04E01 Soulmate Wanted

    • September 1, 1985
    • BBC One

    Granville advertises for female company and ends up with more than he can handle.

  • S04E02 Horse-Trading

    • September 8, 1985
    • BBC One

    Arkwright smugly offloads a lot of clothes-horses to an rival Asian shopkeeper. However, when his rival starts making large profits using the clothes-horses as bait for customers, he makes Granville dress up as an Asian woman so that he can buy the clothes-horses back.

  • S04E03 The Housekeeper Caper

    • September 15, 1985
    • BBC One

    Arkwright decides that to make Nurse Gladys Emmanuel jealous, he will advertise in the local paper for a live-in housekeeper. Unfortunately he is not prepared for Mrs Delphine Featherstone applying for the position!

  • S04E04 The Errand Boy Executive

    • September 22, 1985
    • BBC One

    Granville takes a fancy to Stephanie (""with a p-h"") who works in a boutique. He pretends that he is a young executive and that Arkwright is his assistant. Needless to say, Arkwright does not agree with this role-reversal.

  • S04E05 Happy Birthday, Arkwright!

    • September 29, 1985
    • BBC One

    Arkwright is on the alert after Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Granville tell him that a man from the ""Good Shop Guide"" is visiting shops in the area. It is only a ruse by Granville and Nurse Gladys to teach Arkwright a lesson in good manners. Nurse Gladys dresses up as a man and is on the receiving end of some very polite behaviour from Arkwright.

  • S04E06 The Mystical Boudoir of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel

    • October 6, 1985
    • BBC One

    Arkwright tries all manner of things in order to get himself into Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's bedroom, including the use of a ladder and a box of chocolates. Meanwhile Granville takes to wearing tights on his head.