Open All Hours - s03e02 - The Ginger Men 

Something about this show.. it’s the atmosphere.. the crisp mornings, serene nights, simplicity, music and nature of people and their voices.. the whole bundle is warm and cozy .. home-like.. I can’t resist the idea of watching each episode .. endlessly….

My grandparents lived in the back of a grocery store they ran in New Orleans in the '50's thru the '70s. I enjoyed helping them with the stocking and even ran the register on occasion. I miss those days, as well as my grandparents.

The food cabinet in the kitchen of this series is the same as my mother had in her kitchen…fabulous …no fitted kitchens in those days…and I loved it. I had never seen a dish washer.and our stove had a grill for toasting ….How I wish we could bring back this kind of comedy……No dirty language….What a mess we have become…..

They don't make comedy like that any more. Classic and quite beautiful

Watching Open all hours is like putting on your favourite slippers and sitting in front of an open fire. Pure comfort and nostalgia the antidote for the horrors we face today.

These stores used to be everywhere supplying the public with everything they needed for the weekly shop and were run by friendly shopkeepers who would give credit to loyal customers and have a chat about the weather and stuff marvellous times of a bygone era

These old comedy shows are a geat escape from crazy 21st centary!!

My lovely, now passed, father in law had a corner off licence in Bolton, Lancashire that is the total copy of “Open All Hours”, even down to the moustache and “till that bites”. Wonderful memories of him and my mother in law, running the shop. In winter they would have crates of Guiness in front of the kitchen coal range to keep warm, just like the customers liked them!!

I’m 21but I love this show RIP RONNIE BARKER, you are one of the greatest actors of all time , no one will top your amazing acting

Oh gosh. Absolute delight. Had kind of forgotten what old British comedy was like. Thank you so much. ❤❤

Just hearing the intro tune, makes me sad with nostalgia and happy at the same time

I would love to go back and live in 1982 once more it was a lot nicer then.

Comedy was so innocent and fun! Love every minute.

I remember the milk carts that used to go around the neighbourhood back in the day, this show brings back memories. Classic comedy , no preaching but pure entertainment

Who else thinks that as you are getting older mid 30-40s your slowly turning more and more into Arkwright 😂😂

Absolutely love this. Reminds me of the north when I was a lad and Britain was British. Sweet nostalgia!

I used to watch this when I lived at a residential care home. It gave me comfort, and I love watching Ronnie Barker in this. He’s so hilarious.

I still watch them over and over, i just love Ronnie Barker!!!!!

I lived back door to a shop like this. They made their own pies and let me put the pie lids on under a press. Loverly memories.

As a kid in the seventies I loved our 'corner store!'. Chap who owned it, same brown jacket. Bag of crisps with the blue sachet of salt on the walk home from school with Mum. Happy days!. 🙂

Ahh the Jamaican ginger cake episode ahead of its time that one n one of the best episodes imo but they was all was all brilliant good times..

Just heard the sad news today that Lynda Baron passed away yesterday 7/03/2022. May your soul rest in peace and thank you for all the laughters and memories Nurse Gladys Emmanuel Arkwright will be waiting for you Gladys and finally get married in heaven.

That bloody till still makes me laugh even after all these years !!!!

Good sense of humour we don't see today. The English make great comedy's shame good comedy classics only exist on RU-vid and not on tv today. rest in peace Ronnie Barker, this show had two talented people who made us laugh.

Reminds me so much of a time I was a student, popping around to the corner shop to buy a loaf and tin of beans for beans on toast. Cheap and filling meal. 😊😊😊😊.

Eternally fond of this beautiful series. And not simply - I always maintain to my wife - because of the late and great Lynda Barron and the gorgeous Barbara Flynn. The latter of whom I'd be forever happy to watch for hours, reading a telephone directory.

“And once they cross that doorway....I’ll ‘ave ‘em!!” 😂😂

All gone now but all good clean fun ,who needs smut to make you laugh 😂😂

"Well done and you certainly have been" epic Awrkright you crafty begger 😂

Woodbines! Superb. Nothing on TV these days in the same class.

Open all hours have given us very SPECIOL memories.

Open All Hours is the best.

I bought some Jamaican ginger cake and woooooo... It changed my life.

how i wish we had stores like this today. such a treasure

My favourite episode of Open all Hours - fabulous script and acting of par excellence ❤

This is one of my very favourite episodes of the series the gentle flirting that goes on between Julie and Granville is just delightful another example of great acting and writing thank you for uploading it

This definitely is one of my favourite episodes. Just love the way he cons everyone about the ginger cake. I've brought it for years more than 57p. These two are perfect foils bouncing of each other lovely to watch and even after all this time it's still fresh and very funny. 😂😂😂😂😂🎭🎭🎭🎭📻📻📻📻📻📻

I love watching these shows! ❤

I love it when Granville does the impersonations! David Jason can really do voices.

Wowser's.... #OpenAllHours has a really specOl place in my heart ....a Sunday afternoon with a bit of #OpenAllHours and #SomeMothersDoAveEm ......and I am VERY happy lady. You know my niece asked to watch my box sets of them both once-over she'd never seen either of them before,and honestly I told her they were old fashioned and she probably wouldn't like them...BUT oh my word,she loved them thought they were hilarious.... even after all these years a young teenager laughed...not many shows can say that,but yep deffo my #Favourites 😊

This is the best episode of open all hours! I absolutely love it! These guys were the best

My favorite episode of the whole series. Fantastic delivery of some of the best lines. Classic in every sense of the word.

I miss these Cutie Pie little stores......They don't hardly exist anymore.

The ginger cake ! What wonderful series that is! Many thanks from California!

Open all hours the best show to watch its so funny 😂.

A crafty master and clever apprentice at play! Brilliant writing and great portrayal of the characters!

One of my favourite episodes, British comedy genius

I started out watching Frost with David Jason then we found Still Open All Night now we can watch the original! Brilliant!

I only discovered british sitcoms in old Hong Kong before the Net. Barker's arkwright role here turms sneaky and snarky into an art.

The Jamaica ginger cake bit is the sequence I quote most often from Open All Hours. The reverse psychology. "I'm sorry, but I can only let you have one!" "...one what?"

I grew up in a corner store..we knew everyone and we where open all hours...because we lived there we often got woken for milk and ciggaretts.I loved it and we even peeled the potatoes for some.Huge wheels of cheese and huge slabs of butter.Christmas saw cooked ham and turkey you could buy as many slices as you wanted it was a good childhood.

20.43 onwards has gotta be one of the funniest sketches ever in a sitcom,WOODBINES ! Classic,had me in stitches.

Brilliant. I have enjoyed open all hours many times. But I have been enjoying it as an audio. Which has really put an smile on my face. It's given more life into enjoying it even more. Thank you.👍👌

In south africa too. Our dairy made the best ice cream ever. Milk deliveries and the green grocery van were wonderful.

just pure brilliant British whitt. ronnie barker you were one very gifted Tallented person. one of a kind. thank you for making me laugh so much. 👍

What an absolutely perfect production.

Still makes me laugh that line, “well done” you just have been !!!!

"Ho"? I friggin love the Brittish!🙏🌎☮️💚

❤thank you Mr Ronnie and jason

During the late 60s (time of my teens), I worked on a mobile grocery shop serving villages around the North East of England. As well as learning how to drive (in a Commer Carrier vehicle) I also became proficient in the art of sales banter - much like Arkwright 😂

one of Britain's great!

Ohh gee I do miss this programme. Carries my Dads name , Ronnie Barker, and we used to rib Dad about that. Good clean family viewing. 🤗🤗💕💕💕

The lady with the black coat and cap was casted in Doc Martin , she did the character of Aunty Joan brilliantly.

It was so well written wasn't it? And id forgotten how brilliant the main characters were. I wish Councils had helped small businesses keep thriving in local communities more. They provided a much healthier and happier social environment for kids families and especially the elderly than supermarkets and raitail parks do.

Wouldn't mind a bit of that ginger cake myself. There's always a laugh in every episode. The English make best comedy classics

The archetype of what comedy should be...

Absolutely brilliant 👏👏👏

Still laugh when I see Ginger cake in the shops. G G G Ginger Cake! :)

He aint wrong on his theory to get them in the door!!

This was the way of Britain, beautiful. Now lost forever. So sad. So glad I'm old, I don't have to see the sh.t thats coming.

Early morning milk deliveries. Them were the days. The day that stopped, was the day this country went mad

Brilliant love the bit at the end where they chase the guy down the street.

Good morning Mrs. G-G-Gingercake, it's a nice G-Gingercake for the time of the year isnt it? well how's your eldest cake, is he still a bit g-g-g-ginger?

Just think, at one point Ronnie Barker was doing Open All Hours, Porridge and The Two Ronnies. How did he fit it all in?

I loved ginger cake ever since I was a little kid.

Favourite episode. Thx

My bestest ever episode love it so much it makes me very laughable and enjoyable

Absolutely lovely😅😅😅😅

was born in 1979 love all these, thank you

going straight is a good one to watch

It's the sedate, uncomplicated way of life.....

Jamaican G-G-Ginger cake 🤣🤣🤣

just below the surface of hilarious comedy is a deep contemplation. There are the mundane things we do everyday and while we try to deal ,with them we dream...time passes. Granville and Arkwrght are trapped in the greedy little store conniving for pennies, conniving for love.

This is one of my favourite shows of all time. It was amazing..Ronnie Barker was so talented.

8:37 "WellDone and u certainly have been"

A true classic. And the 21st century revival still provides some hearty ch-ch-chuckles :)

Always reminds me of my maternal grandfather with his store. He made no secret of overcharging each customer 50-70 cents. At the end of an 18 hour day he had his profit anyway! What a character......

Love were the bread man falls over the mower so funny

This kind of England is long gone. Very sad.

I've used some of Arkwrights comments back in the day. They worked like ginger cake.

Lol he made a face at miss featherstone when she turned around

My favourite show - I love Ronnie Barker

Love how he takes the mick out of the nurse’s Mum and granvels Mum lol

I'd love to have seen Ronnie Barker do a character in Only Fools And Horses

I love when in one episode Gordon Stackpool asks Arkwright for his money back

I haven't laughed so much for aged 😂😂😂

Love it when it starts with Barbara Flynn. Makes me go all weak. Sigh.

13:31 Stephanie Cole! I lover her in Wating for god

So many classic and clever lines, "It wasn't me that started giving the Hungarians the business, it was your mother"

“Don’t hyou go, Hugo; I’ll go!”