Story Line

Plot Summary:

The series features a small grocers shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Albert Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a middle-aged miser with a stammer and a knack for being able to sell anything to any buyer, no matter how unwilling. His nephew Granville (David Jason), is his put-upon errand boy, whose attempts at a love-life or even just a meaningful social life fall flat. He blames his uncle, in particular, that, he has to be up early to open the shop, stay up late to close it with only an odd hour of free time and deliver large numbers of goods on a battered bicycle. Almost every mistake Arkwright makes is followed by a cry of Gr-Granville! F-fetch yer cloth!. Granville was orphaned at an early age when Arkwrights sister died, leaving Arkwright to raise the boy. A recurring joke revolves around Arkwrights speculation that Granvilles father, his identity and whereabouts unknown, was Hungarian an issue never resolved. Granvilles intellectual and emotional nature frustrates Arkwright, who wants his sole heir to develop an avaricious nature akin to his own.