The BEST episodes of Open All Hours season 2
Every episode of Open All Hours season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Open All Hours season 2!
Arkwright is a tight-fisted shop owner in Doncaster, who will stop at nothing to keep his profits high and his overheads low, even if this means harassing his nephew Granville. Arkwright's only weakness is his love - Nurse Gladys Emanuel.
#1 - St. Albert's Day
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/19/1981
Arkwright invents a Saint's day so that Granville can check the pockets of a foreign visitor who he suspects of shoplifting.
#2 - Laundry Blues
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/1/1981
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!
#3 - The New Suit
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/22/1981
Arkwright has to buy a new suit - on Nurse Gladys Emmanuel's say so.
#4 - Arkwright's Mobile Store
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/29/1981
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.
#5 - The Reluctant Traveller
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/8/1981
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!
#6 - Shedding at the Wedding
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/5/1981
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!
#7 - Fig Biscuits and Inspirational Toilet Rolls
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/1981
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.