The WORST episodes of Still Open All Hours
Every episode of Still Open All Hours ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Still Open All Hours!
Still Open All Hours is a BBC television sitcom sequel to the series Open All Hours, written by original series writer Roy Clarke and featuring several of the permanent cast members of the original series, including David Jason, Lynda Baron, Stephanie Cole and Maggie Ollerenshaw
#1 - Boosting Sales
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2018
Granville has a large consignment of tinned beans to shift and he enlists the help of Mr Machin, a local customer who is convinced he is being regularly abducted by friendly aliens, to increase sales. Granville's plans are nearly thwarted when Mr. Machin gets cold feet about telling his tales of space adventure, but where there's a will there's a way and our canny grocer persuades Gastric to help him. A new customer, Mrs. Rossi, is in a fragile state having been left by her husband. Is there anything in the shop that can lift her spirits? Granville suggests a couple of tins of beans... Meanwhile, Leroy meets Beth for a date, but finds three's a crowd when she brings along her best friend Ruby.
#2 - Gastric's Christmas Meal
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/2018
At Christmas, Granville must persuade his regulars to buy some mistletoe mince pies. Eric and Cyril refuse to be taken in by promises of romantic enhancement in every box - but could the pies actually work? The Black Widow decides she is taking Mr Newbold Christmas shopping, Madge and Mavis discuss whether to invite Gastric for Christmas dinner, and Leroy tries to enlist Ruby's help to stop Beth seeing Gerald.
#3 - The Sausage Machine
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2018
Granville buys a second-hand sausage machine and produces Arkwright's designer sausages with some interesting results. The Black Widow is still keeping her options open in the pursuit of her next husband but decides that she needs to get tongues wagging by asking Mr Newbold to fly some racy underwear on his washing line.
#4 - The Spanish Consignment
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/20/2019
Gastric spends the night at Madge’s house, but has he found the path to her best bedroom? Granville takes delivery of a bargain consignment from Spain, but exactly what is in the very large crate? Eric and Cyril fall out over a lost compass, while Mr Newbold gets a soaking on a boat trip with Mrs Rossi. Our canny grocer has his work cut out helping friends make up and getting a wet customer home without being spotted by the Black Widow.
#5 - Rembrandt Di Gastric
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/21/2018
Granville encourages Gastric to express his artistic side in a local art competition, but he throws himself into self-expression more enthusiastically than anyone could have predicted. Granville buys a large collection of mystery tins. Unfortunately, Leroy and Granville are still none the wiser on the contents after they've opened one. Now they face the ultimate challenge - how can you sell something when you have absolutely no idea what it is?
#6 - Mrs Featherstone's Driving Lesson
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/1/2019
Granville is selling 'lucky' toy sloths from Madagascar, but will that help the Black Widow, who has decided it’s time to learn to drive, if only she can find an instructor prepared to give her more than one lesson? Kath and the ladies are organising a bring-and-buy sale for charity, but Eric is less than happy when he discovers that Kath is planning to put his favourite clothes on her stall. Meanwhile, Willis finally gets away from his mother to go on a date with Ruby, and is romance blossoming for Madge and Gastric?
#7 - Granville's Christmas Wish with Mavis
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/28/2017
It's Christmas, but some of Granville's most important customers have plans to leave town. Not only is Madge planning to take his beloved Mavis away for a Christmas break, but is Mr Newbold also thinking of doing a runner, leaving Granville at the mercy of Mrs Featherstone's amorous advances? Granville has to use some of his craftiest wiles to persuade everyone not to travel at Christmas. After all, as well as wanting to stay close to Mavis, he's also got to shift a large number of distinctly wonky Christmas crackers.
#9 - The Big Cheese
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/22/2017
Granville tries to sell a huge wheel of cheese that's past its sell-by date. Fed up at delivering goods by bike, Leroy tries to get his dad to invest in a delivery van. Mrs Featherstone suggests advancing her relationship with Mr Newbold.
#10 - An Errand Boy by the Footprint
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2018
Granville raises his advertising standard, but can he keep his hands on it? Leroy still can't find a date for Ruby. Granville pulls out all the stops to sell some oysters.
#11 - Call in the Admirers
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2018
Granville surprises Kath when she pops in for her regular loaf of bread when he claims to have a special way of matching the right product with the customer. Madge and Mavis are off to a wedding looking very glamorous, and Granville gets concerned that Mavis might stay for the disco and attract new admirers, especially when Gastric recounts the story of how his cousin Maureen met her husband at a wedding.
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#12 - Eric and Cyril's Tandem
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2018
Mr Newbold has decided to barricade his house against Mrs Featherstone, but Granville is sure he wouldn't be so keen to avoid her if he knew all about her hidden exotic past, even if she doesn't actually have a hidden exotic past get in his way. Meanwhile, a lycra-clad Eric and Cyril push the envelope of masculinity on their new tandem, Mavis takes Granville up on his offer of a tour of his Victorian cheese-slicer collection, and Leroy tries to make the most of having to dress up as a banana for business reasons.
#13 - The Lunch Offer
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/28/2018
Madge is thinking of leaving the area and telling Mavis she has to go with her, so Granville has to come up with a reason to keep the woman of his dreams from moving away. There's also a little problem of how to shift a load of jars of crab apple jelly so sour it could strip teeth. To make matters worse, Granville's best customers Eric and Cyril have taken a vow against ever being conned again. Mrs Featherstone has made Mr Newbold a lunch offer he can't refuse.
#14 - The Fitness Class
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/7/2018
Granville has a new idea for growing the business and branches out into offering fitness classes, while Leroy is keen to take out a librarian, but she's refusing to give him a date. Mr Newbold believes he has hit on the perfect way to repel the attentions of Mrs Featherstone - all he needs is a completely new image; but one that Mrs Featherstone does not like.
#15 - Hobbies and Pastimes
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/29/2019
Granville creates a special blend of snuff, but will his customers notice any beneficial effects? Ruby tells Willis that she is going to take him to the gym for some intensive training. Madge thinks Gastric needs to lose weight, and Mr Newbold thinks he has found a pastime to share with Mrs Rossi - away from the prying eyes of Mrs Featherstone. However, a determined Black Widow enlists assistance from Granville and Leroy for a crash course in how to ride a bicycle.
#16 - The Market Idea
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/18/2015
Granville has bought a job lot of bargain stock but needs a clever plan to sell it all. A visiting salesman gives him a marketing idea. Meanwhile Eric is not getting on with his wife and seeks emergency romantic help from young Leroy.
#17 - Catering
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/25/2019
Granville offers tasty toasties to his customers. Encouraged by Eric and Cyril, Mr Newbold continues his pursuit of Mrs Rossi, and the Black Widow decides it's time for a makeover.
#18 - The Art of Romance
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/18/2019
Granville puts an old mangle to use in more ways than one. Leroy tries to find a date for Ruby, while Eric and Cyril give Mr Newbold tips on how to get closer to Mrs Rossi.
#19 - Gastric and the Spiritual Powers
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/15/2017
Granville has some out-of-date Christmas puddings to sell, but needs a clever plan to flog them to his sceptical customers. Madge thinks her house is haunted, maybe Gastric can help? Mrs Hussein takes a shine to Leroy.
#20 - Double Date
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/10/2016
Granville is eager to go on a double date with Mavis and Madge, but needs to smarten up Gastric, which soon proves a handful when his only suit gets ruined. Meanwhile, Mrs. Featherstone decides to use Mr. Newbold to help her discreetly woo Granville, while Eric and Cyril find themselves swayed by the shop's newest beauty product - from North Korea.
#21 - When the Adventure Strikes For Eric, Cyril and Mr Newbold
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/8/2017
Granville tries to sell some out-of-date mints, with results that get tongues wagging. Meanwhile, Mrs Featherstone is still trying to tempt Granville to become her fourth husband, and Eric, Cyril and Mr Newbold try to prove to their womenfolk that they are men of adventure.
#22 - The Seance
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/25/2015
Granville is convinced the shop is being haunted by Arkwright's spirit, and decides to hold a seance attended by some of his regulars. Though Gastric is brought in to help him with his plans to woo Mavis more without Madge's interference. Meanwhile, Leroy's mother turns up out of the blue, eager to check in on Granville and see the son she left with him.
#23 - Granville's Helping Hand
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/1/2017
Granville buys some devices on the cheap, they are supposed to create positive emotions. Mr Newbold has a problem with underwear and an underworld boss is looking for Leroy after his girlfriend makes Mrs Hussein jealous.
#24 - Eric's Camping Dream
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2018
Granville has a large quantity of bargain spectacles to sell, but will they really do anything to improve his customers' eyesight? Meanwhile, encouraged by reading a self-help book "Take control of you", Mr. Newbold decides to tell Mrs. Featherstone how he really feels about their relationship. Also, Eric tries to persuade Kath to go on a camping holiday, and what is in the large, heavy box that has arrived for Leroy?
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#25 - Lunch in a Seaside Town Hotel
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/11/2018
A trip to Scarborough presents Granville with an opportunity to combine business with pleasure as Mavis invites him for lunch in a seaside hotel. Can Granville get a moment alone with her without Madge and can he manage to stop thinking about what is going on in the shop for long enough to let romance blossom? Back in Arkwright's, Leroy is in charge for the day. He is young, keen and full of confidence. What could possibly go wrong and why is there a customer out cold in the middle of the floor?