Open All Hours | Season 2

2. Open All Hours: Series 2 (1981)

Laundry Blues

1. Laundry Blues

10Sunday, 1st March 1981 30min
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!
The Reluctant Traveller

2. The Reluctant Traveller

10Sunday, 8th March 1981 30min
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!
Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls

3. Fig Biscuits And Inspirational Toilet Rolls

10Wednesday, 18th March 1981 30min
Arkwright once again is struggling to sell goods that no-one wants to buy. He therefore tries a special promotion to get rid of the goods, namely fig biscuits and toilet rolls with messages printed on them.
The New Suit

4. The New Suit

10Sunday, 22nd March 1981 30min
Arkwright has to buy a new suit - on Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's say so.
Arkwright's Mobile Store

5. Arkwright's Mobile Store

10Sunday, 29th March 1981 30min
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.
Shedding At The Wedding

6. Shedding At The Wedding

10Sunday, 5th April 1981 30min
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!
St. Albert's Day

7. St. Albert's Day

10Sunday, 19th April 1981 30min
Arkwright invents a Saint's day so that Granville can check the pockets of a foreign visitor who he suspects of shoplifting.