TV Tie-ins: The Two Ronnies redux

A couple of novelisations featuring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett.

Open All Hours by Christine Sparks
BBC 0563-17924-4, 1981, 159pp, £1.25.
Granville looked down at his short, undistinguished person, wrapped round in a large white pinny. Here he was, a young man in his twenties, already at work in the shop at six-thirty in the morning. What did the future hold for him? A continuing

TV Tie-ins: The Two Ronnies

Continuing the Ronnie Barker theme from yesterday, here's a cover gallery featuring The Two Ronnies.

It's Goodnight from Him. The best of The Two Ronnies by Ronnie Barker; illus. John Painter (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1976; as The Two Ronnies, adapted by Bill Ridgway, Basingstoke, Macmillan Education, 1986)

The Two Ronnies: But First - the News edited by Peter Vincent.
Star 0352-39899-X, May

TV tie-ins: Porridge

Norman Stanley Fletcher first appeared in an episode of Seven of One, a series of one-off comedies all featuring Ronnie Barker. Barker had an undeveloped idea for a show with a prison setting and himself as a Sergeant Bilko type of wheeler-dealer; writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais came up with a far more biting storyline in 'Prisoner and Escort' which aired in 1973 and had the lowest