Still Open All Hours - Episode Guide

Uncle Arkwright has long-gone, and Granville is running the corner shop with his son Leroy, the result of a one-night stand in Blackpool. Granville is unlucky with the ladies however his son is a hit. Granville wants to be able to get back in with his old-flame Mavis, however, he is having trouble getting past her sister Madge. Will Granville finally find a way to get to his former lover?

In the early hours of Valentine's Day, Granville decides to climb a ladder leading to his beloved Mavis' room, in the hope of leaving a card. Unfortunately as he does so, he falls off ladder. In order to spend some time with Mavis, Granville arranges for Madge to spend some time with his customer Gastric. Unsurprisingly Madge is unimpressed.

Granville is anxious to obtain the custom of Old Bentinck, who crosses the road rather than come into the shop and sends Leroy to find out about the man's shopping preferences. Learning that he likes a particular cereal Granville puts it on special offer but ends up out of pocket when other customers buy it instead. Efforts to make Gastric attractive to Madge with an ill-fitting wig are as disastrous as the sale of an umbrella to Wet Eric, proving that it really is bad luck to open one indoors.

After showing Leroy how to make out of date bacon look edible Granville tries to get Nurse Gladys to give him romantic tips he can pass onto Gastric in his reluctant efforts to woo Madge - though Madge does not want to be wooed, especially after Gastric's disastrous attempt to climb a ladder to her bedroom window. Leroy is embarrassed when Granville makes him pedal to rickshaw to publicize the shop though at least Granville saves him from a jealous boyfriend with a box of broken fruit pies.

As Granville prepares to open a coffee bar in the back yard of the shop and to sell unsuspecting customers out of date salami which he passes off as life-giving 'yaggis' Wet Eric is stuck with trying to cheer up visiting brother-in-law, the permanently depressed Lester. Needless to say the grand opening of the coffee bar leaves everybody feeling depressed due to faulty furniture and an exploding coffee machine.

Granville has bought a huge job lot of herbal remedies which he cannot shift but, taking his cue from a salesman who advocates the use of a gimmick, advertises them as Old Mother Hemlock's Ancient Remedies and persuades Gastric to drag up as the lady herself. The customers are unimpressed until Old Mother Hemlock appears to mend Madge's broken car, after which her healing hands cause an increase in sales of the previously unsellable commodity.

Granville believes that the ghost of Arkwright is haunting the shop and he arranges a séance - actually to convince Madge to date Gastric, though of course it goes wrong. However he really does look as if he has seen a ghost when he gets a visit from the abrasive Linda - a face from the past who wants something that he has.

Granville has an eye on a tree for this years Christmas celebrations, but it gives him more then he bargained for. Gladys has tactics for her new job.

Granville decides to have a cut-price sale but only on stock he wants to get rid of. Mrs Featherstone takes a shine to new neighbour Mr Newbold. Mavis decides to invite Granville over a for a coffee.

Madge gets anxious when a cherry picker arrives on the street. Granville discovers a gap in the shop's security. Eric and Kath decide to do something together.

Granville and Gastric are set to go on a double date with Madge and Mavis, but first Granville needs to find a way to tidy Gastric up. Mrs Featherstone decides she wants a husband.

Granville hopes his new large display item will inject a bit of sunshine into shop life as Kevin prepares for his wedding. Kevin however is still having second thoughts. Mrs Featherstone decides she wants to marry again.

Cyril and Eric want advice on how to impress their wives. Mrs Featherstone's plan isn't working out. Granville has a scheme to sell salami as a new product called Yaggis.

Granville and Gastric find themselves playing marriage counsellors and Leroy adopts a festive disguise to avoid relationship trouble of a different kind. Meanwhile, Mrs Featherstone struggles to find the Christmas spirit and Kath attempts to bring the street together as one harmonious choir to beat Finkle Street once and for all - but does Granville have a trick up his sleeve to help them out?

Granville has bought some cheap devices that promise to jump-start people's positive emotions, but will they work? Meanwhile, Mr. Newbold has a serious underwear problem which Mrs Featherstone has taken upon herself to solve with Granville's help, and Leroy's latest girlfriend has made Mrs Hussein jealous and caused a local underworld boss to come looking for him.

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.

Granville has some outdated Christmas puddings to sell, but needs a clever plan to lure his sceptical customers into buying them. Madge is convinced that her house is haunted and is refusing to sleep in her bedroom, but luckily Granville discovers Gastric has a hidden dark side with spiritual powers that could solve the mystery and impress Madge. Meanwhile, Mrs Hussein takes a shine to Leroy and wants to know what they keep behind the counter for special customers.

Granville tries to tempt the locals with a big wheel of cheese which seems to be on the turn. Leroy, sick of riding the old shop bike, is desperate for a new van to make his deliveries, so Granville turns to Gastric for help. Meanwhile, Mrs Featherstone continues to strike fear into the heart of Mr Newbold as she suggests a modest advance in their new relationship.

Granville has bought a job lot of turnips that will need clever selling with the promise of their amazing medicinal qualities. Meanwhile, an attractive young woman is looking for Eric; he says he has no idea who she is, but Kath and the ladies are not so sure. And Mrs Featherstone samples Mr Newbold's homemade wine, which emboldens her intentions on finding a fourth husband even more than usual.

Arkwright's becomes a delivery point for people's internet shopping. When a large delivery arrives, Granville decides he could use it to help Gastric impress Madge, who has taken to her bed in a foul mood.

Meanwhile, Granville is worried he is not using his shop counter space well enough to advertise, and Eric turns to Leroy for advice after Kath finds evidence of a lady's stocking his pocket.

It's Christmas in the nation's favourite corner shop, 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.

Granville has a new idea for growing the business - the offer of fitness classes. But can he really turn Gastric into a greyhound, and is that the right way to Madge's flinty heart? At the other end of the scale, Mr Newbold believes he has hit on the perfect way to repel the attentions Mrs Featherstone - all he needs is a completely new image. Leroy is keen to take out a librarian, but she is refusing to give him a date, and Granville has a range of experimental Wi-Fi underpants to shift, but are his customers really ready for that level of digital connectivity?

Mr Newbold has decided to barricade his house to fend off Mrs Featherstone. Granville is sure he wouldn't be so keen to avoid her if he knew all about her hidden exotic past and he's not going to let the fact that she doesn't have a hidden exotic past get in his way.

Meanwhile a lycra-clad Eric and Cyril are pushing 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 is trying to make the most of having to dress up as a banana for business reasons.

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. Meanwhile Granville has bought 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?

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 crabapple 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. Meanwhile, Mrs Featherstone has made Mr Newbold a lunch offer he can't refuse.

Madge and Mavis are about to leave the area. Granville sets up a big night out in a pricey restaurant so he and Gastric can persuade their lady loves to stay. The only problem is that Granville's money belt seems to be tightening every time anyone looks at the menu. Meanwhile, Leroy's romance with Beth finally seems to be getting somewhere, but the time has come introduce her to his father. And Granville has come up with the perfect way for Eric and Cyril to get their wives' attention: make sure there are rumours that they have been seen out and about with another woman.

A trip to Scarborough presents Granville with an opportunity to combine business with pleasure as Mavis invites him for lunch in a seaside hotel. But 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. He is keen. He is full of confidence. What could possibly go wrong? And why is there a customer out cold in the middle of the floor?

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, Mr Newbold decides to tell Mrs Featherstone how he really feels about their relationship. Elsewhere, Eric tries to persuade Kath to go on a camping holiday, and a large, heavy box has arrived for Leroy.

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.

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? Meanwhile, Leroy meets Beth for a date but finds three's a crowd when she brings along her best friend Ruby.

Gastric impresses everyone with his invention skills when he adapts his Mini to run on its own. Eric and Cyril also try to impress the ladies with the high-risk sport of rock climbing but run into trouble with Kath when they decide to start their training at home. 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. Meanwhile, Leroy attempts to get Beth to dump her childhood sweetheart.

Granville decides that he needs to increase his advertising footprint, but then his grand scheme, in the shape of an oversized balloon, wreaks havoc. Beth is still on at Leroy to find a date for her friend Ruby, and Arkwright's shop continues to offer more unlikely products when Granville uses his best sales pitch to sell some tinned smoked oysters with the promise of the wow factor to his customers.

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. Eric, Cyril and Mr Newbold discuss their emotional relationships, and Eric wonders whether they have been too macho. Is it time to explore their artistic side? Meanwhile, the Black Widow is concerned that Mrs Rossi is having a continental influence on Granville and the shop.

It's a day full of bad surprises for Granville when the till becomes unwell, Leroy buys an ice cream van and the Black Widow finds him overheating in a tight spot. Eric and Cyril decide it's time to show some macho spirit and get back in the saddle - after all this is the home of the Tour de Yorkshire! Meanwhile, in the library, Leroy tells Beth about his sneaky plan to find a blind date for Ruby. Mr Newbold is sent on a mission by Mrs Featherstone to find out more about Mrs Rossi and whether she poses a threat to the local shop, but does he discover more than he bargained for?

It is Christmas, and Granville has a large consignment of mistletoe mince pies to shift, but how can he persuade his regulars to buy them? Eric and Cyril refuse to be taken in by the wily grocer's 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. Back in the Community Hall, everyone gets in the festive spirit by arranging a surprise anniversary party for Annie and George Thompson.

In the opening episode, Arkwright's protege finds an old mangle in the yard - and wonders how he can best put it to use. Meanwhile, Beth continues to pressure Leroy to find a date for her best friend, Ruby, who has been suspended at work. Elsewhere, Eric and Cyril tutor Mr Newbold in the art of romance - and how to get closer to Mrs Rossi.

Granville's plan to open a new catering arm, offering his customers tasty toasties, doesn't quite go according to plan when his reconditioned toaster blows a fuse. Mr Newbold gets a little bolder in his pursuit of Mrs Rossi, while trying to avoid the Black Widow. Leroy and Willis meet Beth and Ruby with a view to going on a date, but Willis is worried that Ruby's not right for him.

Granville is selling ‘lucky' toy sloths, the Black Widow is learning to drive, and Kath organises a bring and buy sale featuring Eric's clothes.

Granville encourages Gastric to become a fearless hunter in an effort to impress Madge. Eric and Cyril finally get their wives under canvas.

Granville creates a blend of snuff and has to give the Black Widow a crash course in cycling proficiency. The ladies get dressed up for line dancing, and Gastric goes on a diet.

Granville takes delivery of a bargain consignment from Spain. Eric and Cyril fall out over a lost compass, and Mr Newbold gets soaked on a boat trip with Mrs Rossi.

Granville plans to put the magic back into Christmas, Mr Newbold mixes up his gifts, and Eric and Cyril are keen to try Arkwright's special custard.