For the album by The Hamsters, see Open All Hours (album).
Open All Hours
Genre
Sitcom
Created by
Roy Clarke
Written by
Roy Clarke
Directed by
Sydney Lotterby
Starring
Ronnie Barker
David Jason
Lynda Baron
Stephanie Cole
Barbara Flynn
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Kathy Staff
Theme music composer
Joseph Ascher
Opening theme
"Alice, Where Art Thou?"
Ending theme
"Alice, Where Art Thou?"
Composer
Max Harris
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
4
No. of episodes
26 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
James Gilbert (pilot episode)
Producers
Sydney Lotterby (1976–1985)
Production location
England
Running time
30 minutes
Production company
BBC
Original release
Network
BBC2 (1976)
BBC1 (1981–1985)
Release
23 March 1976 (1976-03-23) – 6 October 1985 (1985-10-06)
Related
Still Open All Hours
Seven of One
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Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which aired in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme was developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's Seven of One (1973) comedy anthology series. Open All Hours ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll.[1] A sequel, titled Still Open All Hours, aired from 2013 to 2019.
^Britain's Best Sitcom:Top Ten, URL accessed 2 December 2006.
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