Fifty years ago, the BBC broadcast the pilot of Open All Hours, the sitcom that would soon have 17 million viewers tuning in to watch the antics of miserly corner shop owner Arkwright and his errand boy Granville.
And now David Jason, who played Granville, has explained the secrets of the show and told how important his “mentor” Ronnie Barker, who played Arkwright, was to his early career.
David, who is 82 and in 2005 was knighted for services to acting and comedy, says that away from the Open All Hours set, he called Barker “The Guv’nor” and when Barker retired, he passed the “Guv’norship” to him.
