Open All Night

Amazing! 35+ years later, I remember something from such an obscure show.

Gordon is complaining that Susan's neer-do-well ex is back on the scene, and that he'll never change from being a jerk.

Bubba Smith says with perfect dryness:

"People do change. Look at me - 15 years ago, I was a little white man from Switzerland!"

I thought this was a hysterical TV show! I wish it would have lasted longer!! It was about a convenience store, like AM/PM and they were open all night(hence the title), and it was a Mom and Dad and their adult son! The family actually lived above the store! So, funny! The son was a total idiot, but he made the show!! They should make more like it!

I remember watching it watching it from the start, I was not a Dukes fan and I didn't exactly care for what was on NBC at the time, either, and in 81 the PBS stations were usually world news programs running opposite it. I watched the first episode and thought, "What a fricken cool theme song!" it was very much like boogie woogie bugle boy, I wish I could download a copy of it off iTunes. It is sad that it was short run. I enjoyed it with my dad, in turn we later watched Open All Hours, and laughed our arses off at the Nurse Gladys Emanual innuendos and other running gags in it, also. That, too, was a good program. I am half hoping that the whole has not been destroyed as some failed programs are. I would like, very much, to own the series on DVD. A friend of mine likes to watch Married With Children, Keeping Up, Are You Being Served, Sanford and Son, I know he would like BOTH coasts' versions of this TV show. The odd part is, with it being on for 4 months in America they almost made more episodes than the original BBC which ran, off and on for 5 years, and they had made only 30 episodes. English broadcast was odd. I think they have adopted the American shooting schedule of one episode for each week, for up to and including 28 to 32 weeks, depending on writing, contracts, ideas with scripts, tempers of the divas, etc....

Funny you mentioned that. I don't know what in the heck made me look it up tonight, but I did. My brother and I watched that show religiously. That episode when they were robbed, I thought you were gonna say (when the Dad rescued him from the freezer chest) the Dad says "What are you doing Lyin in the freezer" and the kid goes "I'm not lying (we really were robbed)" I mean, yeah, you had to see it (people are reading this going 'yeah, boring') But it was so cool. I was jacked to see it on this site. It was a great show! I mean right up there with John Caponera's sitcom and the 'Neuman from Seinfeld" spin off. The good shows never really seem to last.

The writers of this show were 5 years ahead of the pack, the timing between Feester and his step son was great. The acting in general was great. I wish it would have gone on to bigger and better things but unfortunately it did not. It was pulled off the year after a season.It was the kind of show that made you realize that a comedic situation can occur anywhere. It all took place in Gordon Feester's 24 hour convenience store. For some reason I can recall that it was in Connecticut or somewhere "close" to New York City.(similar to a 7-11) slight tensions between step-father and step-son added to comedy as Gordon had to play the cards he was dealt, with a servant-like step-son. I can't remember the Mom that much, but I am sure she was good as well. I also remember the theme song being stuck in my head for a couple of years; it was memorable and incorporated the characters names in it.