Open All Hours pilot episode

[Roger]

I've just watched the pilot episode of Open All Hours. I don't think I've seen it before. Filmed three years before series one, with a different shop front, different street, and Nurse Gladys was played by Sheila Brennan. It also had Yootha Joyce and Kieth Chegwin as shop customers. It's worth watching if you've not seen it before.

 

[RichardFromMarple]

I can remember first seeing it when BBC2 had a season of sitcom pilots in the mid 1990s.

It's on the Season 1 DVD.

 

[maltrab]

The pilot seemed a little more gritty compared to the later episodes, it is worth a watch, I wonder where the first shop was located

 

[Barrychuckle]

It was interesting to think this went out between the pilot & first series of Summer Wine.

 

[RichardFromMarple]

The pilot seemed a little more gritty compared to the later episodes, it is worth a watch, I wonder where the first shop was located

According to the Wikipedia "The pilot episode (featured in the series Seven of One) used a shop front on the western intersection of Drayton Avenue and Manor Road in Ealing, London, for exterior filming."

 

[Barrychuckle]

According to the Wikipedia "The pilot episode (featured in the series Seven of One) used a shop front on the western intersection of Drayton Avenue and Manor Road in Ealing, London, for exterior filming."

Wow that's very different from Doncaster!

 

[RichardFromMarple]

Here's the view from Googlemaps.


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5...01T000000!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

 

[Barrychuckle]

Here's the view from Googlemaps.


https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5...01T000000!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu

That's really interesting thanks for posting you can see it was converted into flats around 2012

 

[MoodyBlue]

I will reitterate this tale......simply because it is a "claim to fame [ish]" point !! [ish !!!]!...
Although I am from Liverpool I had a friend who was from Balby in Doncaster who supported Everton......
He invited me to his house to stay the night before we played Leeds at Elland Road.......I arrived in Doncaster.....had a few bevvies...and got a taxi to his house......GUESS WHAT ????......HE LIVED 2 DOORS AWAY FROM ARKWRIGHT'S SHOP !!!!!!!...[if I can remember rightly I think it was a hairdressers].....I could not believe it !!!.....he said all his neighbours used to get a little annoyed because of the filming.....and people coming to Balby to look for "Arkwright's shop.....sound a bit familiar with some residents of Holmfirth feeling the same emotion doesn't it.
All my love to you all my "Summerwine family members" !!!!
Keith.
X!

 

[Adanor]

How interesting. It must have been slightly annoying with all of those people looking for Arkwright's.

As a note, I remember the Moody Blues.

 

[Marianna]

According to the Wikipedia "The pilot episode (featured in the series Seven of One) used a shop front on the western intersection of Drayton Avenue and Manor Road in Ealing, London, for exterior filming."

I just started re-watching the series after a long hiatus, starting with the pilot. This time, having seen this thread, most of my attention was on the appearance of the exterior and the neighboring houses. I'll have to watch it again to pick up on the dialog.

 

[maltrab]

I just started re-watching the series after a long hiatus, starting with the pilot. This time, having seen this thread, most of my attention was on the appearance of the exterior and the neighboring houses. I'll have to watch it again to pick up on the dialog.

The pilot episode was filmed in a different location

 

[Marianna]

The pilot episode was filmed in a different location

Yes, and I have seen that location. Years ago, the first time I viewed the pilot, I didn't notice the difference, except for the stepladder outside the window in the kitchen door. That was an interior scene, so I can't imagine why the view out the window was so carelessly designed.

 

[wstol]

The exterior of the shop used in the pilot in Ealing was also used in Carry On Constable.

 

[BruceC]