Episode
Open All Hours: How to Ignite Your Errand Boy
Overview
Arkwright considers yet another money-making scheme. Everybody seems to want fire-lighters in the winter so he can save cash by making his own — or rather getting Granville to make them in the shed at the back... with explosive results.
Details
- Series
- Open All Hours
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1982-04-11
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
How to Ignite Your Errand Boy is Episode 4 in Series 3 of Open All Hours. It aired on 1982-04-11. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 3: Duet for Solo Bicycle
When a posh man arrives for directions, Arkwright is concerned that Nurse Gladys is seeing another whilst Granville's love life is also suffering. It is bad enough that when he accompanies Wendy, he only has a bike with which to impress her — but the bike has a squeak, which he can't get rid of.
Episode 5: The Man from Down Under
Arkwright learns that a former beau of Nurse Gladys' is returning from Australia, where he emigrated a couple decades ago to make his fortune. Naturally, Arkwright is disheartened to think that Gladys might be tempted by her old flame and sets about to take drastic action with the man he believes to be his rival.
More episodes from this season
Episode 2: The Ginger Men
When Arkwright finds himself with a surplus of Jamaican Ginger cakes, he tries various marketing ploys to sell them off, but hits the jackpot when he claims that the cakes contain drugs, leading customers fighting to get at them.
Episode 6: The Cool Cocoa Tin Lid
Fed up with tank-tops and shop pinnies, Granville decides to court a cool image. He gets a pair of shades and a nice fashionable shirt, but all that stops him from being the archetypal medallion man is a medallion. Perhaps a cocoa tin lid can provide a substitute.
Episode 1: An Errand Boy by the Ear
There are protests when Arkwright is caught dragging Granville around by his ear. Whilst Arkwright reasons that this is what errand boys are for, the customers choose to differ and force Arkwright to improve his nephew's lot in life.