Season 1

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  7.7/1096 votes

  Open All Hours

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/1973

  Arkwright, a miserly North-country shopkeeper and his put-upon nephew Granville.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/10111 votes

  Prisoner and Escort

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/1973

  Norman Stanley Fletcher, a career criminal and his escorts — soft-hearted Mr Barrowclough (Brian Wilde) and authoritarian Mr Mackay (Fulton Mackay) going up to prison.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.7/1043 votes

  My Old Man

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/1973

  Sam Cobbett is a cantankerous,retired railwayman whose house is demolished by the council,forcing him to live in a tower block with his daughter Doris and her husband,whom he sees as posh and with whom there is mutual antagonism. Later made into a series by Yorkshire Television, starring Clive Dunn

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  5.9/1032 votes

  Spanner's Eleven

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/1973

  The tale of ailing football team Ashfield Athletic and its trainer, local cabbie/hot-dog salesman/chauffeur Norman Spanner.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.6/1042 votes

  Another Fine Mess

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/1973

  Ronnie Barker and Roy Castle as two Laurel and Hardy impersonators who become their characters as an evening's farcical events escalate around them.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.8/1039 votes

  One Man's Meat

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/1973

  Alan Joyce is a fat,greedy man whose wife devises a plan to keep him off food for a day. She goes out and takes not only all the food from the house but Alan's clothes.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.0/1040 votes

  I'll Fly You for a Quid

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/6/1973

  A Welsh family, the Owens, who bet on absolutely everything and anything, discover that their grandfather backed a winner on the day he died — but where is the betting slip? This pilot gave Ronnie Barker the idea for The Magnificent Evans (1984).

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown