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October 13, 2025

MARION MCMULLEN looks at the finale of Open All Hours 40 years ago

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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