Still Open All Hours

For the third straight year, Still Open All Hours returned to TV on Boxing Day. Last year I think I wrote something about the show having an excellent large cast but they didn't seem to know what to do with them and that Maggie Ollerenshaw and Brigit Forsyth seemed to have good chemistry that should be better utilized. I don't think any changes were made there, but overall the scripts seemed to be more finely tuned. It's very nice to sit back and watch good actors do classic comedy. There's not much of it about these days. Geoffrey Whitehead was added to the cast this series. He also appeared with David Jason in the other show on the disc, The Royal Bodyguard. Hopefully this will return for a 4th straight Boxing Day 11th months from tonight and Roy Clarke will keep writing it. Roy celebrates his 86th birthday on Thursday. 

Still Open All Hours