Beebfun - The Open All Hours Desktop Theme Homepage

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- our sole purpose in life is to provide you with original quality Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy on your own PC. That's it! No hard sell. We just believe in having fun and for inspiration we have drawn on that great British institution - the British Sitcom (with the odd footie theme thrown in for good measure). With over 40 fun TV and soccer desktop themes to choose from we are sure you will find some fun here - be sure you visit the rest of the website before leaving - click on Frames or No Frames to access the main menu. This web page features one of Britain's best loved comedies - Open All Hours .

Open All Hours is a true comedy classic! Created by Roy Clarke, Open All Hours is the BBC's situation comedy from the 70's and 80's set in a Yorkshire corner shop, which opened as a 1974 Comedy Playhouse and received it's first run on BBC2, where it picked up only modest custom! A repeat on BBC1 in 1979, however, took it to the very pinnacle of the ratings.

Ronnie Barker starred as the stammering, scrooge-like shopkeeper Arkwright who, in between counting his money, bullied his daydreaming assistant, nephew Gr-Gr-ranville, played by a young David Jason. Arkwright lusted after, big-bosomed, Morris Minor driving Nurse, Gladys Emmanuel ("Lynda Baron"). To counter the rising tide of supermarkets, Arkwright opened his shop first thing in the morning until last thing at night, and conned his customers into buying goods they did not want. In the words of Gr-Gr-Granville - I can feel another Sales Drive coming on..... Among his regulars in the shop were Mrs. Featherstone (played by Stephanie "Waiting for God" Cole).

Heavily dependant on seaside postcard-type laughs, and always crucially dependant on Barker's performance as Arkwright, the series was tailor made for Barker (it was originally tried out in Barker's Seven of One show), and he was never s-s-s-short of superb. A total of 25 shows were aired between 1976 and 1985 on BBC1/BB2. The format was sold to America as Open All Night (1981-82) with George Dzundrza as Gordon Feester, the owner of a Californian "364" store.

Maybe it's a sign of the show's generous age but there are but a few Open All Hours links on the net. Here is what I have found. If you find other links please let me know - I will add them here for subsequent visitors to explore.

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The Open All Hours Desktop Theme is another fun desktop theme from those happy folks at

. The Theme features themed start-up and shutdown screens, hi-colour (24-bit) desktop wallpaper, animated cursor set and new desktop icons. Also included are new windows event sounds taken from various Open All Hours episodes. We have included a full feature screensaver with sound capability (optional) constructed using Screen Saver Studio Deluxe featuring more Open All Hours sights and sounds. Full installation instructions are provided in a web-page Readme file and the whole theme downloads in a convenient zip file.

If you don't have a copy of Microsoft Plus! help is at hand in the form of Desktop Themes, a shareware desktop theme manager published by Jonathan Potter at Left Side Software. Click on

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The following thumbnails will give you an idea of the screens used in this theme.

You can now use GetRight.Com's downloading Utility GetRight for Java to download this desktop theme. Click on the GetRight Download button that follows to download the Open All Hours Desktop Theme using GetRight for Java instead of your browsers usual download tool. Check out my Download Problems page to find out how to use this facility and for more great tips on how you can improve your downloads using Net Vampire.

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