We subscribe to the Britbox streaming service through Amazon Prime. I really like British mysteries like the ones on PBS's Masterpiece Mysteries. Many years ago I watched
A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. Last year I ran across a comedy series starring him and became hooked.
Still Open All Hours is a delightful comedy about a wheeler dealer corner grocery store owner and all the local characters who shop there. It's a completely different kind of role for Jason, but he seems perfectly cast.
Then I discovered that there was a much earlier (30-35 years earlier) series
Open All Hours with some of the same characters/actors which was wonderful and seeing some of the characters much younger and all of a sudden questions in my mind were answered about how Granville, the main character, became the person he is.
Granville can sell badly dented cans of beans from Mongolia to his neighborhood customers by convincing them that it will make them better lovers and in fact
irresistible to their mates! He uses this same technique to sell any stock that he's having trouble moving. One of the characters in both series that I loved watching was "The Black Widow," Mrs. Featherstone played by Stephanie Cole who played Auntie Joan in
Doc Martin.
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