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"St Albert's Day" is the seventh episode of Open All Hours second season.
Plot
Granville (David Jason) is feeling again down in spirits, when Arkwright (Ronnie Barker) meets Statchik, an Hungarian inmigrant who has returned to Great Britain, looking for an old love of his. Arkwright has a double trouble with this customer. He suspects that he could be Granville's father (and does not want Granville to find out) and suspects that he could be a shoplifter. He manages to have Granville to frisk the Hungarian, ellaborating that it is "St Albert's Day" and it is mandatory to have strange greeting traditions.
To cheer up Granville, Arkwright and Nurse Gladys Emmanuel (Lynda Baron) invent a new story for Granville, that he could be the errant son on a duke related to King George. Granville rapidly forgets about his "Hungarian roots", thrilled that he has royal blood, and being between 7th and 27th on the line of succession to the throne.
Notes
The "service" that Arkwright provides Statchik, is only provided by him and by Harrods, "a slightly bigger shop down the road"
Quotes
- Arkwright, overloading Granville with deliveries.
- Arkwright: One of these days Granville, all of this will be yours.
- Granville: Yes, I don't want it all in one load!
- Arkright, speaking to Statchik about health uses in Britain and Hungary.
- Arkwright (in pidgin English): you everything, you have to b-boil.
- Statchik: B-boil?
- Arkwright: Oh,dear,he stutters as well. Imagine. It's bad enough having a s-sss-ss-ss- slight impediment in English, but imagine stuttering your way through a foreign t-tongue.
- Statchik: T-tongue?
- Arkwright: Speaks Chinese as well?
- Arkwright, speaking to Gordon (who has just fixed Arkwright's door)
- Arkwright: Fancy a drink, Gordon?
- Gordon (very happy): I thought you'd never ask!
- Arkright (to Granville): Mash that tea bag a bit harder, will you?