Open All Hours

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 Maggie Ollerenshaw Kathy Staff Barbara Flynn Frances Cox
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.