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Del and Rodney's deceased mother, Joan, though never seen, cropped up in Del's embellished accounts of her final words or in his attempts to emotionally blackmail Rodney. [195], Only Fools and Horses was sold to countries throughout the world. Later on, Del Boy heads to the van after he is embarrassed by the fact that he booked Raquel as a stripper for Uncle Albert's birthday at the Nags Head, without knowing that she was a stripper. In 2015 we met with the producer, Phil McIntyre, and agreed to develop the idea. These included pub landlord Mike Fisher (Kenneth MacDonald), lorry driver Denzil (Paul Barber), youthful spiv Mickey Pearce (Patrick Murray) and Boycie's flirtatious wife Marlene (Sue Holderness). In "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", Del's old business partner Jumbo Mills (Nick Stringer) wanted Del to return to Australia with him and restore their partnership, forcing Del to make a decision. The idea was that he never had his hat off, never dressed properly and usually had dirty pyjamas underneath his clothes. [115], In 2003, it was reported that Sullivan was developing a prequel to the original series, Once Upon a Time in Peckham, which would feature Del as a youngster in the 1960s, and have a prominent role for his parents. The van only has two seats, which means that passengers such as Grandad and Uncle Albert have to sit in the back, along with Del's stock. [44] In "The Second Time Around",[45] the woman they believed to be Auntie Rose (Beryl Cooke) turned out to be no relation at all but the woman who'd moved into Rose's house some years earlier. [87], Only Fools and Horses has separate theme songs for the opening and closing credits, "Only Fools and Horses" and "Hooky Street", respectively. A six-part documentary series also titled "The Story of Only Fools and Horses", began on 29 August 2017 on Gold and finished on 3 October 2017. Sullivan was not keen, owing to his work on Just Good Friends as well as Only Fools and Horses, and inexperience with the theatre, so nothing came of it. Rodney finds out who his real father was. [165] At the British Comedy Awards, the show was named best BBC sitcom for 1990,[166] and received the People's Choice award in 1997. After Lennard Pearce's death in 1984, the show introduced a new sidekick, Uncle Albert, the boys' great uncle, played by Buster Merryfield. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003. The series features rare and unseen footage from the archives and specially re-created moments from Del Boy's family and friends. It attracted 9.2 million viewers[68] and generally received a lukewarm response from critics. [192] Another of the vans used in the series was sold at auction in the UK for £44,000 in February 2007. When he is seduced by an attractive smooth operator, a family rift ensues. It was nam… [133], In November 2018, You Know It Makes Sense, Lessons From The Derek Trotter School of Business (And Life), was released by Ebury Press. [15], Sullivan had initially given the show the working title Readies. De Gaye used Vaseline, make-up, and food to make Grandad's costume look dirty. [102], Only Fools and Horses had two producers: Ray Butt from 1981 to 1987,[103] and Gareth Gwenlan thereafter. [93], The opening credits see images of the three principal actors peel on and off the screen sequentially. The Society has also organised an Only Fools and Horses museum, containing props from the series, including Del's camel-hair coat and the Trotters' Ford Capri. [95], Sixty-four episodes of Only Fools and Horses, all written by John Sullivan, were broadcast on BBC1 from 8 September 1981 until 25 December 2003. The book was written by Rod Green, with the help of Jim Sullivan. In "A Touch of Glass" the Trotters give Lady Ridgemere a lift when her car breaks down, meaning that both Rodney and Grandad have to sit in the back of the van. [88] The original theme tune was produced by Ronnie Hazlehurst and recorded on 6 August 1981 at Lime Grove Studios. [47], In some episodes, a guest character was essential to the plot. This is the full script for Only Fools And Horses Series 3 Episode 4 – Yesterday Never Comes. The vendor has installed several Del Boy-related props in the motor ahead of the sale. [184] It was named one of the top 20 cult television programmes of all-time by TV critic Jeff Evans. Davies commissioned Sullivan to write a full series. 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[6] All earlier episodes had a running time of 30 minutes, but this was extended after Series Six (1989), and all subsequent episodes had a running time ranging from 50 to 95 minutes. The show was not an immediate hit with viewers and received little promotion early on,[1] but later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the last ever episode) holds the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers.