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Quite naturally, watching Six Dates With Barker from 1971 has led me to Ronnie Barker's 1973 anthology series. Apart from the first episode - Open All Hours - this will be my first time watching these episodes, which is quite exciting.
7 of 1* was a series of seven sitcom pilots for BBC2, each starring Ronnie B.
The first two episodes - Open All Hours and Prisoner And Escort - would each eventually be picked up to become two of Ronnie's best-known series. I plan to visit both of these later on, alongside their respective series, so I've started with the third episode (which was also picked up to be a series. In a roundabout way).
I'll post some thoughts on each episode in the following posts.
Oh, and apparently it was originally meant to be titled 6 of 1, with a potential second series to be called And Half A Dozen Of The Other. Which makes far more sense.
* The title as shown onscreen is numeric, despite sources like Wikipedia listing it as "Seven Of One".
7 of 1* was a series of seven sitcom pilots for BBC2, each starring Ronnie B.
The first two episodes - Open All Hours and Prisoner And Escort - would each eventually be picked up to become two of Ronnie's best-known series. I plan to visit both of these later on, alongside their respective series, so I've started with the third episode (which was also picked up to be a series. In a roundabout way).
I'll post some thoughts on each episode in the following posts.
Oh, and apparently it was originally meant to be titled 6 of 1, with a potential second series to be called And Half A Dozen Of The Other. Which makes far more sense.
* The title as shown onscreen is numeric, despite sources like Wikipedia listing it as "Seven Of One".