Seven of One
Seven of One
TV ShowEnded

Seven of One

7.0 / 10
1973
1 season
7 episodes
Comedy

Seven of One is a 1973 BBC2 comedy anthology starring Ronnie Barker. 7 of 1 is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms, three of which were picked up for a full series run. Originally called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half Dozen of the Other.

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Seasons

  • Open All Hours

    1.Open All Hours

    25-03-197330m

    Stammering shopkeep Albert Arkwright runs a tight little corner shop in a Doncaster suburb. Certainly he's tight when it comes to cost-saving and his put-upon nephew Granville, who...

  • Prisoner and Escort

    2.Prisoner and Escort

    01-04-197330m

    Norman Stanley Fletcher is being escorted to Slade Prison for a five-year sentence. Mr Barrowclough and Mr Mackay make the journey with him on New Year's Eve. Prisoner and Escort...

  • My Old Man

    3.My Old Man

    08-04-197330m

    Sam Cobbett is a cantankerous, retired railwayman whose house is demolished by the council, forcing him to live in a tower block with his daughter Doris and her husband, whom he se...

  • Spanner's Eleven

    4.Spanner's Eleven

    15-04-197330m

    The tale of ailing football team Ashfield Athletic and its trainer, local cabbie/hot-dog salesman/chauffeur Norman Spanner.

  • Another Fine Mess

    5.Another Fine Mess

    22-04-197330m

    Ronnie Barker and Roy Castle as two Laurel and Hardy impersonators who become their characters as an evening's farcical events escalate around them.

  • One Man's Meat

    6.One Man's Meat

    29-04-197330m

    Alan Joyce is a slovenly, greedy man whose wife devises a plan to keep him off food for a day. She goes out and takes not only all the food from the house but Alan's clothes. He ri...

  • I'll Fly You for a Quid

    7.I'll Fly You for a Quid

    06-05-197330m

    A Welsh family, the Owens, who bet on absolutely everything and anything, discover that their grandfather backed a winner on the day he died — but where is the betting slip? I'll...

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