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The Best Episodes of Open All Hours Season 2

Every episode of Open All Hours Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Open All Hours Season 2!

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Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 1 - Laundry Blues
    7.9/10(110 votes)

    #1 - Laundry Blues

    S2:E1

    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!

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  2. Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 2 - The Reluctant Traveller
    8.1/10(121 votes)

    #2 - The Reluctant Traveller

    S2:E2

    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!

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  3. Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 3 - Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls
    7.9/10(104 votes)

    #3 - Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls

    S2:E3

    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.

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  4. Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 4 - The New Suit
    7.7/10(101 votes)

    #4 - The New Suit

    S2:E4

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

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  5. Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 5 - Arkwright's Mobile Store
    7.6/10(96 votes)

    #5 - Arkwright's Mobile Store

    S2:E5

    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.

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  6. Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 6 - Shedding At The Wedding
    8.1/10(101 votes)

    #6 - Shedding At The Wedding

    S2:E6

    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!

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  8. Open All Hours Season 2 Episode 7 - St. Albert's Day
    7.7/10(101 votes)

    #7 - St. Albert's Day

    S2:E7

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

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Laundry Blues" is the best rated episode of "Open All Hours" season 2. It scored 7.9/10 based on 110 votes. Directed by Sydney Lotterby and written by Roy Clarke, it aired on 3/1/1981. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Reluctant Traveller".