The Best Episodes of Open All Hours Season 2

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.9/10(110 votes)

   #1 - Laundry Blues

   S2:E13/1/1981

   Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, having seen Granville struggling with the washing, tells Arkwright that he must buy a new washing machine. Arkwright has to come up with a plan so that she thinks he has done as she requests. He gets Neville to drop off a new machine, sneak round the back of the shop and take it away again, leaving behind a second-hand machine instead!

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke
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   8.1/10(121 votes)

   #2 - The Reluctant Traveller

   S2:E23/8/1981

   Nurse Gladys Emmanuel and Arkwright are finally going to spend the night away at a hotel. Little does she know that the hotel is round the block! Whilst they are away, Granville is entertaining the milk-woman. Arkwright also has a problem with an over-tight money belt!

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke
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   7.9/10(104 votes)

   #3 - Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls

   S2:E33/18/1981

   Arkwright once again is struggling to sell goods that no-one wants to buy. His marketing genius comes to the fore as he tries to shift the surplus stock, namely fig biscuits and toilet rolls with messages printed on them.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke
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   7.7/10(101 votes)

   #4 - The New Suit

   S2:E43/22/1981

   Arkwright has to buy a new suit - on Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's say so.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke
5. 

   7.6/10(96 votes)

   #5 - Arkwright's Mobile Store

   S2:E53/29/1981

   In a bid to prove to Nurse Gladys Emmanuel that he means to expand his business, he buys a van so that Arkwright's Stores can have a mobile store.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke
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   8.1/10(101 votes)

   #6 - Shedding At The Wedding

   S2:E64/5/1981

   Arkwright goes to a wedding with Nurse Gladys Emmanuel. His suit smells of mothballs and he has to hang his trousers out of Gladys' car to air them. After his trousers are blown away and run over by a tractor, he has to borrow her trousers!

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke
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   7.7/10(101 votes)

   #7 - St. Albert's Day

   S2:E74/19/1981

   Arkwright invents a Saint's day so that Granville can check the pockets of a foreign visitor who he suspects of shoplifting.

   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke

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   Director:Sydney Lotterby

   Writer:Roy Clarke