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7 unusual facts about Only Fools and Horses


East Street Market

East Street is also the birthplace of Charlie Chaplin and features in the title sequence to the television programme Only Fools and Horses.

Hillingdon Hospital

The hospital has been a popular filming location for many programmes, including Only Fools and Horses (during the birth of Derek Trotter's son Damien), Inspector Morse, defunct soap opera Family Affairs, and the BBC documentary Airport.

Marlene Boyce

Marlene Boyce is a ficional character in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off series The Green Green Grass, created by John Sullivan.

Significant other

The phrase was popularised by Derek Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, who used the phrase a number of times when referring to his long-term partner, Raquel Turner.

The Invisible Band

"Flowers in the Window" is featured in the 2004 film Saved!, second-season episode of Merseybeat (2002), and as background music during a scene of the 2002 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Strangers on the Shore".

Tony Warner

He moved to Millwall in 1999, he earned the nickname Denzil, because he looked and sounded like the character Denzil from the television sitcom Only Fools and Horses.

Vorsprung durch Technik

Only Fools and Horses (1986) Series 5, Episode 1: 'From Prussia with Love'.


BBC One 'Balloon' idents

Produced by Aardman Animations, The three toys used were all connected to BBC One's Christmas Day schedule that year, so there was a dog (the terrestrial premiere of Toy Story), a dinosaur (the dramatic epic The Lost World) and a Reliant Robin van (the comeback of Only Fools and Horses after it had last aired in 1996).

Buster Merryfield

Merryfield joined Only Fools and Horses in January 1985, as the former seafaring Albert Gladstone Trotter, known as Uncle Albert, who was Grandad Trotter's globetrotting long-lost brother, and who was known for Uncle Albert's catchphrase of "During the war..."

Caroline Ellis

On television, she appeared in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Go West Young Man", was in Southern Television children's adventure series, Freewheelers, and was also a main performer on TSW's Cut Price Comedy Show.

DCI Roy Slater

For example, after a gang of lads pinned Slater down, Trigger tried to pour itching powder into his belly button, only to be stopped by Del.

Derek Martin

He has also made guest appearances in many television programmes including Doctor Who appearing in The Ambassadors of Death as an uncredited heavy, The Claws of Axos as an uncredited UNIT soldier and Image of the Fendahl as policeman David Mitchell, The Sweeney episode 'Messenger of the Gods' as the villain Spooner, Upstairs, Downstairs, The Bill and Only Fools and Horses.

Nabil Elouahabi

He went onto have roles in several television series such as Attachments, Only Fools and Horses and In This World.

Raymond Sargent

During his early career he played small parts in television programmes such as Only Fools and Horses, Miss Marple, cult programmes The Two Ronnies, Blake's 7 and Doctor Who.

Robin Driscoll

As an actor, he has appeared in episodes of television shows such as Only Fools and Horses ("The Jolly Boys' Outing"), Murder Most Horrid, Dear John and The Fast Show.

The Robin Flies at Dawn

"The Robin Flies at Dawn" is a special edition of the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses, filmed specifically for the British troops serving in the 1990-91 Gulf War.

UK Decay

In early episodes of the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses, the character Rodney Trotter (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) is occasionally seen wearing a UK Decay T-shirt.

Woolhope

The area was a retreat of late TV writer John Sullivan, whose works included Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass, and of musician Roger Whittaker, who previously inhabited one half of the Wessington Court estate house.


see also

Antoni Corone

He bowed with a slate of roles in 1986, including the telemovie Charley Hannah, and following a star turn in the English TV comedy Only Fools and Horses for their Christmas 1991 blockbuster "Miami Twice" where he played mafia dons son Rico Ochetti, he eventually graduated to big-screen character actor with bit parts in such A-list Hollywood features as Blood and Wine, Striptease, Bad Boys II, and Out of Time.

Boyce

Boycie (Terrence Aubrey Boyce), a character from the British sitcoms Only Fools and Horses and The Green Green Grass played by John Challis

Garden Suburb Theatre

Tessa Peake-Jones, TV actor best known as playing Raquel Turner, girlfriend of Del-Boy Trotter in Only Fools and Horses

Longest Night

"The Longest Night", a 1986 episode of the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses

The Invisible Band

The song "Sing" is featured in the 2002 film Mr. Deeds and in the 2003 Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special "Sleepless in Peckham".