Open All Hours Season 4 Ep 3 | The Housekeeper Caper

Open All Hours Season 4 Ep 3 | The Housekeeper Caper

[@tjordulf]

This always gives me a warm, cozy, nostalgic feeling, akin to laying on the sofa, with a crackling log fire, sipping a hot mug of Ovaltine. 💚

[@ngh9133]

Pat Kane deserved a round of applause from the studio audience for her turn as the short-sighted old lady. She is note-perfect throughout, and you can see the admiration in the three stars, David Jason especially. I play this clip over and over when I need my spirits lifting. She never fails to work her magic.

[@pamelapagano2725]

Me too

[@murraytweddle9746]

Best double act on tv , love watching this show thanks to my grandparents for showing me comedy gold

[@timjones6204]

thank god i was born in the 60's and lived through the best comedy era's in the 60's 70's and 80's and some in the 90's.

[@clarea1801]

I’m an 80s child but love all the old comedies like this, love thy neighbour, on the buses, Terry and June, and lots more. I think I was born in the wrong decade.

[@eddiereece1827]

I’m only greatful being born in 98 as my mum was born in 1960. She ended up introducing me to all these old series. No modern comedy compares to these classics, timeless and never not funny, proper belly laughs ever 15-30 seconds.

[@knitpurlsquirrelwithgrannydee]

Yes! I agree! I’m a ‘59 model myself!

[@susansherlock6934]

Same here! I was born in 1963...

[@jonathanwalker2246]

I was born in 1960 and actually lived not far from where Open all Hours was filmed. Today's supposed 'comedy's' can't even touch programmer like this.

[@andrewjablonski2152]

What a legend Ronnie Barker is plays this roll so well

[@SpeccyMan]

role

[@UncleFester-zz5jj]

@@SpeccyMan The rolls come in early, just after the milk.

[@brianhaskard1042]

"I wish I'd stayed where I was. More coconuts in there than in here". Best line ever! ❤

[@rossevans5905]

Good old comedy classics, I watch these shows everyday, never get tired of watching I enjoy seeing more compared to what's on tv today.

[@tolfan4438]

There were plenty of stinkers back then too but nice sentiment none the less

[@tutumakairau9540]

me too before bed love love the show R.I.P Ronnie Barker R.I.P Lynda Baron Thank you so much for the fun & laughter you gave me.

[@drcman1]

Davip Jasop died

[@maryoneill8032]

😅😂

[@loucazin543]

Ronnie Barker was just the best ♥️

[@denismeans2910]

The entire cast was awesome. The "Still Open All Hours" was equally great. Sad both shows ended so abruptly.

[@aaronflavahogg]

Definitely agree. Every programme he was in he played perfectly

[@sarakirk9542]

I can say Roy Clarke was a genius in bringing us 3 amazing classic comedy sitcoms and characters from them. Keeping Up Appearances -The Bucket Woman, Last Of The Summer Wine - Compo and Nora Batty and lastly Open All Hours - Awkwright and Granville. We know Kathy was also in Open All Hours too as Mrs Blewitt. Ronnie and David Jason their chemistry is remarkable. They just worked so well together. ❤️ Every show very much RIP to Bill Owen, Kathy Staff, Lynda Baron Ronnie B 🌈🙏 gone but never forgotten 😘

[@sammyolive3800]

Patricia Routledge is still with us ..

[@sarakirk9542]

@@sammyolive3800 my bad - edited

[@susansherlock6934]

Kathy Staff was Doris Luke in Crossroads...

[@susansherlock6934]

Yes, we forget the gifted writers when we talk about the programmes...

[@bon6461]

Aye, spot on mate. Ronnie and Jason play great muckers and who couldn't love Barbara Flynn. I only wish she had a bigger part. Roy Clarke was ahead of his time with British humour. Brilliant, just brilliant.

[@EPHESIANS511CLUB]

Ronnie Barker King of comedy ❤ well missed 😂

[@PriestmanCub]

One of the best comedy shows ever on the BBC and a great favourite of mine.

[@busterboy7505]

Absolutely brilliant, Ronnie Barker, and David Jason were made for each other 👍😃😃.

[@katherinebrazonis7802]

What a wonderful perfect team. They played off each other so well. I wish we had more teams like them in the USA.

[@scottkelly1665]

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[@johnhosp6824]

King Ronnie the best

[@Peter-pv8xx]

I've been watching these for years, Each episode is work of art, Bravo!

[@annettefowler4704]

Me to, i never get tierd of watching them😂

[@meruliouslacrimens5154]

These were aways so good and you can never remember all the amazing one-liners, I tend to forget how old these episodes are, except for such brilliance, in acting, writing, set dressing and everything.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

I hear you. 👌🏻

[@clivehammond3213]

David Jason a brilliant actor

[@eileenbell8965]

One of our best

[@mikeryan7213]

But good as he is, Ronnie barker was in different league entirely

[@hana.the.writer5074]

Couldn’t agree more 😅👌🏻

[@stephenchecksfield632]

Absolutely fantastic timeless classic comedy ggggg Granville ffff fetch your cloth lol lol 😂😂😂😂 The late Ronnie Barker such a iconic comedic actor and also David Jason such icons both of them I can watch open all hours numerous times and still double up with laughter 😂😂

[@hana.the.writer5074]

So true.

[@msnjc007]

"Cover me up, cover me up!" "Which part is your up?" Gets me every time :D

[@Medietos]

What does "your up" mean..? no, I know that,- what does it mean? What makes him ask?

[@simonsawyer7715]

I nearly fell off my seat laughing at the customer who entered the store and spoke to the mops in the rack. She played the part down to a tee. Hilarious 😂

[@edmayhem]

There's more staff then customers in this shop

[@janicewright-eq6je]

I do agree 🤣

[@MrVavant]

Reminds me of eli from last of the summer wine

[@RyanGriffiths28]

​@MrVavant it's his wife😂😂😂

[@scottkelly1665]

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[@saturdayplayer2492]

Along with Porridge this was the best of Ronnie Barker. Great characters. I remember a corner shop just like this. The bacon slicer fascinated me as a toddler.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

The shop must’ve had its own smell! I remember the one in our block. It smelled fruity from all the flavored sugars and citric acid added in bubblegums and lollipops! 😅 The smell should stay with me forever.. and I have accidentally found it in the box of Bonux’s laundry powder, lemon aroma! 😌😂 I washed using Ariel but since I found that aroma and I been stacking them boxes in my cabinet for years! 👌🏻 Good luck to you in finding your “smell”! 😂🤚🏻

[@saturdayplayer2492]

@@hana.the.writer5074 thanks

[@alicerafferty9646]

This wee woman is just hilarious 😂 I keep going back to it time and time again 😅❤

[@hana.the.writer5074]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Ammazingly hilarious! Deletes stress off your day page! 😅 David Jason is a natural! The way he acts is remarkable! He portrays awesomely. Bravo David! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@alicerafferty9646]

I'll never tire of watching this section where the lady with vision problems just absolutely hilarious she was brilliant 😂😂

[@clivehammond3213]

Wat a great comedy of all time such a great laugh for everyone who can remember it

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

A brilliant partner ship Ronnie Barker and David Jason

[@saxongreen78]

Aubrey Beardsley prints...that Granville's got a bitta class!

[@nanair2007mk]

This is one of the scenes I remember laughing hard at as a young child. It was so funny

[@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794]

Do you mean the lady who is short-sighted ? Yet no name in the credits !!

[@beverlygannon4141]

Yeh it was good. English humour. They don't understand it now good egood days 👍

[@EvaFariou]

Beautiful!!! Thank you! Love from Greece.

[@grahamhawthorn2320]

David Jason served his apprenticeship with The Master Craftsman of timing and comedy.

[@johnniethepom7545]

J D Bodman is still in business ! The phone numbers has changed , which is pnly to be expected . That has fair brightened my day 😊 .

[@lisathompson2154]

I also look up stuff like this

[@np100]

Hysterical!! Never saw this one and thought I had seen them all.

[@johnshields6852]

I grew up in Boston in the 60's so I was always curious about bbc and shows you guys over the pond watched. Thank you for putting this on, I've always felt attached to England in the back of my mind, like I missed the place, even though I've never been there

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Hi John ! British sitcoms are the best ! Check KZbin for stuff like "Are you being served ?", "Wicar of Dibley", "To the manor born", and "The darling buds of May". (In the latter, David Jason is slightly older, playing "Pop Larkin", of a rather unruly family in Kent, England). Love from Norway 😉 🇧🇻

[@jamiesonfamily1201]

I was born in 79 from mobile alabama at 9 I broke foot and started watching BBC when apt went off the air at midnight, are you being served, keeping up appearances were what I got hooked on. But only 60 70 & early 80's British comedy other than basil rathburn and nigel Bruce as Sherlock ...comfort blanket as well as porridge, rising damp, and Reginald Perrin. I am a 39 year old widow and this is my love

[@Thisisnolongerajoke]

Hot summer evenings in Australia in the mid 80s with my dear old dad laughing and laughing.

[@silverlaptop2022]

Ga Ga Granville, Fetch yur cloth 😂 Bare Bare bottles 😂 The world's most valuable OXO tin 😂😂😂

[@zoomzoom885]

Love that old lady who wears big thick glasses and talks to Linda lucardi cardboard cut out

[@ssamuel5570]

She reminds me of Eli in 'Last of the summer wine'!

[@hana.the.writer5074]

That’s Patricia Kane.

[@WildbunchDM]

The lady in red managed to completely steal the show in the presence of the three regular stalwarts of the show, with her beautiful and believable acting. One of my favourite episodes.

[@jayconroy8715]

I agree,she had me in fits of laughter.

[@WildbunchDM]

@@jayconroy8715 She looks adorable. Like a teddy bear put together in haste and not quite correctly.. 😊

[@beatricewoods8377]

Just found this show never miss it also loved last of summer wine

[@tomvecchione3475]

@@beatricewoods8377 great shows that stand the test of time for sure. Ronnie Barker was so talented.

[@WildbunchDM]

This show is a magnificent illustration of Ronnie Barker's comedic genius, right alongside David Jason who deserves equal credit.

[@bethhaines6340]

These two clowns were absolute comedy gold god bless them in heaven

[@deboraharmstrong7081]

They are not both in Heaven.

[@karthikkumarj728]

How come when she died, they buried her husband 😅🤣😂

[@francesbernard2445]

What episode of the BBC sitcom, "Open All Night" was that?

[@jamesjkeyes2005]

18:38. Mrs Red Coat had me laughing

[@susansherlock6934]

I think the red coated short sighted customer is Patricia Kane ( Pat Kane in the list of cast names at the end)...

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

Best comedy up there with fools and towers

[@christinehall6441]

These older comedies are easy and cosy to watch. Reminds me when it was the norm to have a grocers come ironmongers, newsagent etc on the corner of streets. Handy when shops still closed Sundays and you'd forgotten to by bread, sugar etc. Tragic loss when they got priced out of business by huge overheads and in those days ( not now) cheaper prices in supermarkets.

[@Medietos]

Christine Hall. oh are the cosy shops on the corner gone? I enjoyed it so much as a teenage exchange student in England.

[@beverlygannon4141]

@@Medietos there no corner shops anymore

[@beverlygannon4141]

Agree.....out.last corner shop went circa 89,....two mins walk get milk bred now drive miles or buses .... Loved this program 👍

[@hana.the.writer5074]

@@beverlygannon4141 That’s crazy! No convenience store? There should be one in every block.

[@pilotnelson4507]

"She'll never get her nickerlegs over my washing line." lol

[@ssamuel5570]

"Which of you fellas is Arkwright? Now that really got me!!

[@briggsfartblender788]

Granville is actually older than Mrs Featherstone in real life.

[@thespiritmessage]

and the same age as Gladys

[@TomJohnson67]

I knew Stephanie Cole always played characters much older than her age, but this is really surprising.

[@susansherlock6934]

@@TomJohnson67 she was brilliant as the doctor in Tenko!

[@VM15]

No woke .... hilarious episodes 🤩

[@mathewrushmere7615]

The best part of this is at 14:30 when Granville is laughing and Linda Baron is having to restrain herself from also bursting out laughing 😂.

[@mikeowen7526]

Look at Arkwrights face when that woman tells Granville about the brown loaves 😜

[@stephenterrilltraveller]

Granville fetch yer cloth!

[@lynnetedder-ward3164]

The lady in the red duffle coat and Ronnie barker together pure genius I don't know who she is but genius just the same

[@christinehall6441]

She reminded me of Joan Sims

[@jamesjkeyes2005]

She had me laughing

[@susansherlock6934]

I think it is Pat Kane ( Patricia Kane).

[@rosemaryclarke2348]

Joan Simms!

[@rosemaryclarke2348]

I stand corrected, it wasn't Joan Simms. I've never heard of the actress though.

[@susiekopp3578]

I’ve been watching this episode for decades and I learned one thing that we married before my husband before 34 not 44 or 54 😂😂 Thank you God!!

[@garulusglandarius6126]

Fantastic classic comedy from some of the best . Nurse Gladys is a real treat, sexy lady .

[@jdrancho1864]

just died this year, 5 march 22, aged 82.

[@garulusglandarius6126]

@@jdrancho1864 aww 😢 bless her

[@ammo8713]

YES....SHE IS A BIG GIRL.OO

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

"She'll never get her knicker legs over my washing line, that Black Widow...." 🤣 👜🕸🧤🕸🕷

[@willjones8774]

Absolute classic Not an offensive or abusive word said Not like the crap created today

[@dannysullivan633]

So true comedy classic from a much simpler time, I sure do miss those Times

[@lindaschanz8062]

Love this episode

[@mikeowen7526]

"Who's Sir Cecil???? Not Sir Sir Sir Sir Sir Cecil Its CCCCCCCCCecil 😘😜" You couldn't write it these days Its priceless

[@annemariepreston4304]

So very funny I love watching most enjoyable

[@billyhawkins2848]

Don't talk to him he dont even work here that was good

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

Classic lol

[@hana.the.writer5074]

🤣 At least he cared for her feelings and cut the long explaining which was going to be a burden to him short. 😆

[@jacquineal-lawandorder2022]

😂i Agree..she was brillante 😂

[@HookBeak_66]

Arkwright uses the expression to 'faff' when speaking with Granville. My uncle used to say to me that " I faff doodle faff". According to Urban Dictionary, it means to spend time doing little, rather than getting on with something properly. It's a classic British Idiom: A common non-literal saying within a district, community or class of people, to be found in all countries. For example " to faff about " ; to "speak of the devil" speak about someone, then they turn up. "Kick the bucket" a disrespectful way to say someone has died. Idioms can be amusing & give colour to a language, without being offensive.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

Right 👌🏻

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Poor Granville. Being accused of fa-fa-fa-faffing about....🤣

[@TedaR]

💙 Wish sounds was increased, Too low even w/headphones. TY for these! ✔💯👍👏💙

[@loucazin543]

When she died they buried her husband! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AlexWilliams-qf3rp]

Yeah...I love that line

[@SkyTrapAlASMR]

You never seen Arkwright with any fright to the thought of the Black Widow being the living House Keeper. He was so quick to get out on the bike.

[@katewebber1131]

How on earth do they remember the script. Amazing comedy. Also reminds me of home and our corner shop. Also in Yorkshire.

[@AR-iu9jv]

The glass man Joe Belcher was also in OFAH To Hull and back.

[@mikeowen7526]

Customer???? I'm not a customer.......She's not a customer (Granvilles face is pricless😏) Whoever the woman in red coat is hilarious 🤣

[@hana.the.writer5074]

It’s Patricia Kane.

[@petersullivan2837]

I agree, Open all hours, Still open all hours, Only fools and horses, Till death do us part, Love thy neighbour

[@beverlygannon4141]

Loved this ....👍.good days. Good stuff on telly funny stuff ..now it evil🤢

[@maryannsarkady7950]

Granville cooks, bakes, irons, cleans up the store delivers groceries, Arkwright has a slave more than a relative

[@fikent5252]

It’s not real life, it’s a comedy show, get a grip !!!!!

[@maryannsarkady7950]

@@fikent5252 no, really ? Duhhhhhhhh

[@hana.the.writer5074]

@@fikent5252 🙄 Everyone is entitled to speak their minds! You know book clubs discuss fiction too .. and this space is for exchanging thoughts. You don’t like it.. rest your pretty fingers, please!

[@hana.the.writer5074]

Well, Arkwright, dear is an elderly who’s legitimately surviving by his nephew, Granville. It aches how his life’s like though. 😖

[@maryannsarkady7950]

@@hana.the.writer5074 thank you !

[@raymondfunnel6856]

I have said it before a brilliant partnership Ronnie Barker and David Jason

[@ritasantfournier4637]

I think they're all brilliant actors and so funny 👏👏👏🤣😂🤣

[@FrancoiseBonnefoy1]

That customer in the red jacket was so good. Was that Pat Kane? I wish she'd have been in more episodes. I thought she was quite funny. She and Ronnie Barker played so well off each other.

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Pat Kane played in this episode ! 😄

[@FrancoiseBonnefoy1]

@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Do you know what else she has done? I would love to watch more. Thanks.

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

@@FrancoiseBonnefoy1 Pat Kane seemes to have done smaller parts in later years. Like in "Vicar of Dibley", and "Stella". No wonder really, considering she's 94 ! ( born 1929)...😄 I'm afraid I don't know much about her previous work. Other that she's been a stage actress too. My guess is she's as versatile as most top British actors ! Probably being both acting, singing, and dancing. 🤗

[@FrancoiseBonnefoy1]

@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Oh thanks so much. I have the Vicar of Dibley DVD set. I'll have to look. I don't remember her. And yes, it never ceases to amaze me just how versatile so many British actors are.

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

@@FrancoiseBonnefoy1 In "Vicar of Dibley" ms Kane appears in 3 episodes, (from 1994). As "Doris Trott", I think. (Rather small part). As for British actors, they have be good, just to be noticed. The actors with the best agents get all the top tier jobs. And of course they're the ones who get titled. Like Dame Maggie Smith. And Dame Judi Dench. The latter bagging all the best parts, according to her good friend "Mags"... (The Dowager Countess of Grantham frowning at the mere thought of being surpassed) 😘

[@carolinegreen7043]

I loved Granvilles boxers

[@hana.the.writer5074]

🫣🤭

[@mandysmith5275]

Brilliant 👍

[@pamelastones4802]

I LOVE English humour! ❤😂

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

Pat Kane was brilliant as the old lady

[@dingopisscreek]

Nice to see a copy of The Melody Maker on the rack in that pre internet world. When if you wanted to watch a programme you had to BE there when it was broadcast. No catch up or i player. That is why the audience figures were so huge. And The Retford Times - ah . . . . takes me back

[@SchoudShady]

Class show

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

It's strange to think that when this was filmed Linda Baron (nurse Gladys) was two years older than Stephanie Cole (Mrs. Featherstone).

[@evelynschmidt7194]

My brother in England has just reminded me about this program…some good and some extremely bad memories but very funny🤣I think you have to be English to appreciate these films 🥰

[@sojourningteddybear6838]

I’m a Black American from South Carolina and I LOVE these shows! 😊

[@stephenwain7928]

Dead.rite

[@ISeeTheLight83]

I’m an American and I just discovered this show. Love it!

[@evelynschmidt7194]

Well that’s good to hear…please don’t be offended for any reason…we real English people are never intentionally nasty 😊

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Ah well, if you know the true core of the Brits, you soon learn to love the mostly underdog local life of rural or small town Britain. It's proper gold this.... Love from Norway 🤗🇧🇻

[@LeftIsBest001]

The woman who comes into the shop at 17:13 steals a loaf of bread without paying... 😅😂

[@katiedotson704]

An absolute master of her craft. ❤💯

[@philfletcher3434]

I'm severely sight impaired and I have to wear thick specs, but rather than going all holier than thou I still find it funny; along with all the other episodes. The recent remake was a total disaster and thanfully hasn't popped up on YT.

[@StanleypeterDickinson]

So glad to be watching. Last Of The Summer Wine

[@SUPER_WOLFMOON]

Thanks 😊!

[@janiceewright5272]

My favorite strick lolol 🤗😎

[@dougaldouglas8842]

Such comedy, today, would be banned, along with the rest of the best era ever

[@mjlivie]

its just plain slapstick thats why its GREAT SPECIAL tongue in cheek super especial LOVE IT AND MAKES ME PROUD TO BRE BRE BRE BRE BE BE BE BRITISH FROM THE UK

[@kellywallace9677]

That lady at 18:30 didn’t pay for that bread 😆

[@Delsin4077]

she didn't take any bread she was changing her friends order for the next day

[@annoymousgamer7387]

I’m not a customer , on saint cessal day

[@MrLibra56]

St Cecil

[@ritasantfournier4637]

Can't stop laughing 🤣😂❤️

[@mjrussell414]

I can’t believe the nurse actually admitted she was his lady friend in this one.

[@HookBeak_66]

I spotted that remark. She was always quick to side with Granville, but even quicker to expose Arkwright to ridicule. Then you'd see 'G' & the nurse LOLing at him, where he would take it & say nothing.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

She has to.. to let whoever applying for the job to be know their future limits.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

@@HookBeak_66 Evidently he was so troubled to care. 😂

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Some would do anything for a couple of stale, old tea cakes. For their live in mum....🫖

[@shanemuhammad9019]

I used to live on the same street as the shop in Doncaster

[@kerrykaiser6766]

I can’t help thinking the lady with longish bob hairstyle wearing green cardigan reminds me of Ilse Koch!!

[@Medietos]

Really well doen and so funny. I laughed mióre at Thin Blue Line though, but it may be bcause their speech was better and clearer to a foreigner.

[@mrd7539]

The lady in red when she bumps in to Ronnie barker must have stepped or kicked him afterwards cause Ronnie grunts twice blooper they left in Because it was so funny 😅

[@xr6lad]

The season Ronnie never wanted to do.

[@Andyc18]

Saint C... C... C... C... Cecil 😂

[@annaholiday3881]

that was amazing!!

[@krisbest6405]

He went from strenght to strenght.

[@beverlypalmer124]

I enjoy watching this show. These guys are so funny. I wonder if Ronnie Barker was like in real life, because on this show he doesn't like to spend money. An honestly the more I watch this show the more money I save. And I love me some David Jason.

[@hana.the.writer5074]

Uh-oh!! It’s the beginning! 😅 Don’t be surprised if in the near future your neighbor turns out a widow! 😂

[@mikeriordan6940]

Barbara Flynn the milk woman played the wife of Fitz in cracker, also I never understood why they sold nearly everything in the shop but didn't sell milk

[@_to_-cn8wd]

Might it be because households would have milk delivered every day so there wasn't much point in corner shops stocking any?

[@hana.the.writer5074]

No place for a refrigerator 🤷🏻‍♀️ 😅 They have a freezer for ice cream though! Besides, more appliances means larger bills! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@susanmclellan6447]

Nobody bought fresh milk from a shop back then. It was all delivered by the milkman. They only sold dried milk evaporated milk and sometimes sterilised milk.

[@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794]

who is the actress 20 min in ? Think she plays this scene brilliantly! It's one of my all-time favourite comedy scenes 👍👏

[@lionharehart]

Stephanie Cole. She's still alive.

[@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794]

@@lionharehart The lady in the red coat who's short-sighted etc is not Stephanie Cole !! S Cole plays Mrs Featherstone !

[@hana.the.writer5074]

Patricia Kane

[@zerotoleranceforsataniceli4794]

@@hana.the.writer5074 thanks! I'll look her up. She makes this episode rock !