Editing British sitcom (section)

===''Open All Hours''===
Created and written by [[Roy Clarke]] for the BBC, ''[[Open All Hours]]''  ran for 26 episodes in four series (1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985) and starred Ronnie Barker and David Jason, with a regular supporting cast including [[Lynda Baron]], [[Stephanie Cole]], [[Barbara Flynn]], [[Maggie Ollerenshaw]], and [[Kathy Staff]].<ref name="BBC100oah">{{cite web
|url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/open-all-hours/
|title=Open All Hours
|work=BBC 100
|publisher=BBC
|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="BCGOAH">{{cite web
|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/open_all_hours/
|title=Open All Hours
|work=British Comedy Guide
|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref>
The programme, produced and directed by [[Sydney Lotterby]] and developed from a [[television pilot]] broadcast in Barker's comedy [[anthology series]] ''[[Seven of One]]'' (1973), centred around the antics of the eccentric and miserly owner of a traditional English [[convenience store|corner shop]].<ref name="BBC100oah"/> Barker took his idea for Arkwright's famous stutter from the 1950s writer and performer Glenn Melvyn.<ref name="YPoah">{{cite web
|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/where-arkwright-open-all-hours-found-his-signature-stutter-2922574
|title=Where Arkwright in Open All Hours found his signature stutter
|last=Behrens
|first=David
|date=25 July 2020
|work=YORKSHIRE POST
|publisher=JPIMedia Publishing Ltd
|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref> ''Open All Hours'' came 8th in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sitcom/winner.shtml Britain's Best Sitcom:Top Ten], URL accessed 2 December 2006.</ref> Although it ended in 1985, ''Open All Hours'' had been repeated over 3,000 times by 2021.<ref name="BBC100oah"/><ref name="BCGoahR">{{cite web
|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/open_all_hours/repeats/
|title=All repeats of Open All Hours
|work=British Comedy Guide
|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref> The theme tune was composed by [[Joseph Ascher]] (1829–1869),<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=433
|title=Alice, Where Art Thou?
|date=16 January 2015
|work=MUTOPIA PROJECT
|access-date=5 January 2022}}</ref> arranged for a brass band and performed by [[Max Harris (composer)|Max Harris]], who also wrote the incidental music. A sequel, ''[[Still Open All Hours]]'', with David Jason and many members of the original cast, began airing nearly 30 years later in 2013 and ran until 2019 for 41 episodes.<ref name="BBC100oah"/>