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Birmingham Mail
|October 13, 2025
MARION MCMULLEN looks at the finale of Open All Hours 40 years ago
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COMEDY classic Open All Hours ended with Ronnie Barker as shopkeeper Albert Arkwright coming up with a plan to get the love of his life rushing into his arms.
He reckoned if his nephew and shop errand boy Granville put on a stocking mask and pretended to be a burglar then his fiancée Nurse Gladys Emmanuel would flee to him for help and he could be her hero.
He told Granville: "There is something stirring in the boudoir of Nurse Gladys and I wonder when it is going to be me."
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