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Stick a pony in me pocket.

I'll fetch the suitcase from the bank.

Cause if you are the bestest, but you don't ask questions, then brother, I'm

your man.

Cause where it all comes from is a mystery.

It's like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea. But here's the

one who's driving me berserk.

Why do...

You're always watching, eh?

Only Fools and Horses is one of Britain's most loved shows on TV.

Lovely jubbly. 64 episodes were made between 1981 and 2003, and it's still

watched and laughed at by millions of us every week. What are you doing?

I'm trying to get the Dukes of Hazzard.

With every line written by just one man.

The success of Fools and Horses can be summed up with two words, and it's John

Sullivan. The story of Derek Trotter's life is the story of John Sullivan's

creative genius.

I don't think anybody really touches John, but being able to make you laugh.

And being able to make you cry.

The time next year.

I'll be a millionaire.

Celebrating the wonderful comedy world of John Sullivan.

We'll be getting the inside story on the Trotters from the hoarders now.

I was nearly fired because of that scene.

Oi! I said to John, you can't use this.

Come on, get him off!

We've also recreated some of the fest, reunited cast members, and have talked

some of the show's most famous fans.

One of the incredible things about Fools and Horses is that you could grow up

watching it. I can't remember a time before I watched Only Fools and Horses.

It's really, really, really the best.

Over the next hour, we'll be taking a tour around Peckham. All right, Dave?

And beyond.

Let's pretend we're Dutchmen, all right?

Hiya!

We'll also find out what happens when some classic Only Fools moments are

overseas.

So sit back and enjoy the definitive story of Only Fools and Horses, the show

which has given us some of the most memorable moments in British comedy.

Of course, that's just comedy. I mean, it doesn't really happen in real life.

It's not supposed to happen in real life.

Grandad?

Still hasn't got it right.

We live in London, one of the better parts of London.

Yeah, Peckham.

First off, Peckham is a funny word to say, Peckham. Peckham.

Peckham is just, it's easy to remember.

Peckham? I've never been to Peckham in my life.

That's all I really know about Peckham is that it's a great name.

Peckham for this group of people is intrinsic to the whole thing because of

market stalls, because of the high -rise flats.

You know, Peckham summed up a level of people who are trying to improve their

lot. We live half a mile up in the sky in this Lego set built by the council.

We run a three -wheel van with a bald tyre. We drink in wine bars. The only

thing that's got a vintage is the governor's wife.

That's why I want to grab this opportunity with both hands, Rodney. I

Dagenham, which isn't a million miles away from Peckham. It totally seemed

Oi, you little git!

It was exactly what my life and how I'd known life up until that point was like.

The old Kemp Road, the cheapest in the Monopoly board, divides where I grew up,

Bermondsey and Deptford, from Peckham, over here.

And we used to... We had nothing in South London. It was as working -class

area as you can imagine.

But we used to make jokes about Peckham then. No, if you don't have a girl from

Peckham, yeah, she must be nice.

Girl, look at the state of her, eh? Eh? What?

I think P .O. wrinkles from here.

All right, all right.

Got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp, doesn't she?

All right, go on.

You're going to have the best one. That is the best one.

John Sullivan grew up in Ballam, South London, a living inspiration for the

characters and storylines he created.

The street I live in is one of those streets filled with characters.

I think anywhere you go in the country, when you castle Liverpool, when you get

this kind of ghetto...

..type streets, you do get these wonderful characters and incidents that

fill you. You don't realise quite how colourful they are.

I had a fight with five blokes last night.

What was it, a pillow fight?

I was out in the real pubs, the South London pubs, and the kind of discos and

things that were all around then in, you know, in the 70s, 75s.

I just wanted to try and bring in the real characters that were actually

out there in the pubs and streets now, at this particular time.

Inevitable, then, that the Nagthead would become the heart of activity for

Trotters' friends and family.

In every community, the pub where everybody goes is, yeah, key, key,

think. Congratulations,

Albert. You're reminding me of the theme track from Noddy the Movie.

I don't know how much pubs are still the centre of a community in the way that

the Nags Head is in Only Fools and Horses. I guess they are still to an

but when it started, I think that was still very much true.

Oh, there's certificates for my beer. Yeah, I've had a few days off work with

and all.

And they're all very disparate people.

That's the other great thing about pubs, and still is, I suppose, there's

something of a leveller.

I reckon he can pick up BBC Two on that air.

John wanted as big an ethnic mix as possible.

He said, this is the melting pot. The South London pubs, you'll get every

nationality and religion.

He's a nice bloke, you know that, Ranji.

He took me and Rodney over to Southall last week. That was holding this Asian

song contest.

Was that right?

Yeah. A bloke called Sing won it.

Real London life wasn't really being addressed, not in comedies at all. It

still kind of an old -fashioned London.

And there didn't seem to be no kind of black people in there or anything. If

there were, they'd just summon the background.

It was the focal point of the show, the nag said, yes, and of course the device

that a lot of TV shows use to get all the characters into one place.

One of the jolliest ones I remember was after Marlene had got her beloved baby

and she's sitting there with all the photographs of the baby, sewing them

Del does this terrible thing that anybody could have been the father.

Oh, look at that, I never noticed that. Mikey's got your mouth, look.

Jack's got your mouth.

That is Rodney's nose, if ever I've seen that. That's where the series lived, to

me.

Wave goodbye to your daddy.

Creator John Sullivan was insistent that only fools were set in a real London

borough. with real London characters talking like real London people.

Say you take your overcoat off and you put it up on the rack in a pub and you

say, look after my smother for me, Fred, where's your overcoat? You know what I

mean? And you might have your twirls in your pocket.

What's that?

A bunch of peas.

I know people that are talking cockney rhyming slang. Not ironically, not as a

joke.

It's just how they talk.

Well, I thought I might go down and have a couple of light alts down the nag's

head and then go on to the star of Bengal for a Ruby Murray.

The fact that language can sort of connect with you in such a way, I think

just brilliant. And, yeah, you know, John Sullivan was a master of it, and I

think David Jason's delivery of it was equally really authentic.

Where do you get this thing?

Well, all over, really. I mean, this morning I got it in the lift. No, no.

Where? On your body. Oh, right. Get it in the old New Delhi, don't I?

New Delhi?

Yeah, the belly.

You're not from round these parts, are you?

There was a lot of rhyming playing which I didn't get.

He had a line, something along the lines of, my April would be going like a

moped. Of course, me old April was going like a moped.

What, what, what? No.

April? April in Paris, Aris, Aristotle, bottle, bottle and glass.

If a wild lion were to come in here now, my old April would be pouting like a

good 'un, but I'd stand me ground.

It was John Sullivan Jr.

who put words in that have since become only called in horses' words.

Lovely jubbly.

Pucker thing, you know, no mucking about.

Oh, kushti.

They were certainly in the language of South London.

Kushti was certainly a word in my school playground.

Oh, don't worry about it. Everything was going to be kushti. Never heard it on

television. And the first time I heard that, I thought, hello, this is written

by one of the chaps. This isn't by committee. This fellow knows what he's

talking about.

And inventing his own version of Cockney slang meant John Sullivan was able to

slip a few near -the -knuckle phrases under the BBC censorship radar.

Oh, what a plonker!

Some of those expressions seem innocent enough, but they did have a much

deeper meaning for us working -class lads.

Dozy little twunk, Rodney Quinn. I first saw in the script, Rodney, you are a

plonker. I said to John, you can't use this.

And he said, well, they passed it.

I said, who? He said, you know, the powers that be upstairs.

I said, but did they say they knew what it meant? He said, I don't think they

did. And anyway, I'm not going to tell them. Are you?

What a 42 -carat plonker you really are.

Coming up, we see that worse things actually do happen at sea.

Oh, God.

And how the Portuguese Del Boy Trotter handles the legendary falling through

bar scene.

Oh, no.

Del and Rodney Trotter lived in Peckham all their lives.

Genuine Italian sonnet.

But every now and again, writer John Sullivan allowed them to escape rainy

London. Sonnet.

I've booked our olivy.

Here you are, my boy. That's it. There it is, all in there.

We're going somewhere different. We are away from the tourists.

Yeah? Where?

Benidorm.

Oh, we thought, great, wonderful.

Well, we're going to get a free trip to the sunshine.

No,

we're not. We're going to Studland Bay.

We're just outside Poole.

In the early days of Poole's, the budgets, because it was early days and

weren't necessarily the show that it was, if John wrote a scene in Spain, he

didn't go to Spain.

I know exactly when it was because it was the day before my 21st birthday, so

was... April the 19th.

Which is not, you know, balmy by any means.

There you go, though.

Oh, cheers.

This is the life, eh, Roddy?

We spent our day on the beach trying not to look too goose -bumpy.

Whilst everybody's there, you see, all in their great big, you know, jackets

furry boots and gloves and all of that, and there's me lying on the beach with

nothing on, practically.

Here, Roddy.

Put someone out all on my back, will you?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Sorry, I thought it was oil.

Saving the television licence payers money, which to me was more important

going to Benidorm.

Regardless of it being the breathy British coast or a beach bar in

Del was always ready to show off his grasp of exotic languages.

He comes out with these French phrases with such confidence

and he just makes himself look like a complete wally.

Bonsoir. Bonjour, monsieur.

Vous restez à l 'hôtel?

De fonce de fumée.

Avec vous, de bonnet?

Del's use of French was typical of the era where

If you didn't learn a language, didn't know how to speak the language, you just

pretend. Oh, you speak a bit of French, don't you?

Well, potage bon fin.

He's trying to impress people that they won't know what it means either, but

it sounds really cool to speak French.

Garçon, la petit pois.

Oh, parlez -vous français?

Jawohl. Yes.

Well, you can't speak French.

You're still struggling with English.

I remember reading the first script, I think it said, Del gets his French

phrases from a Renault manual.

I'll get the money off him and give it to Rodney, and they'll all be res de

chassé, as they say in the Doudouin.

What a stroke of genius to have someone getting all the French words wrong.

Listen, Trotter, you're not cheating me.

Crue the tail of Platt.

It's so funny, and it continually gets funny, you know, and then he'll

introduce, John will bring a different French word in for the next series, and

you think, it's just really clever.

Well, goodbye.

No, no, not goodbye, Margaret.

No, just bonjour.

Pauperie! Pauperie!

Remarkably, John Sullivan wrote all 64 episodes of Only Fools and Horses single

-handedly. And his original scripts are precious collector's items.

Chairman of the Only Fools Appreciation Society, Perry Agajanov, has been

collecting material from the show for nearly 30 years.

And David Jason has joined him to look through some of the scripts that were

used by the cast and crew.

Well, we've got a little collection of scripts here. Losing Streak script

Is this an original script?

Yeah, that's John Sullivan's copy, actually.

Because I've got here some edits already.

So what they never saw was social security. Don't you go using words like

to me, Trig.

It's cruel. It's like saying Paxo to a turkey.

Yeah, some lovely stuff.

This is lovely. Look, Ray, John would like this back afterwards.

Yeah. John always kept the original, because anything that was cut, he might

able to rebuild into another script.

Looking at these scripts and the thickness of them, and then one day,

on your doormat.

Oh. Hull them back.

And the sheer depth of the script, how did it feel at that time to be taking it

from a 30 -minute slot to, what, an hour and a half? Yeah.

It was what John and I had been...

angling for for some time because we were throwing more stuff away than other

good comedies had got in their entire episode.

They kept saying, no, it's 30 minutes, it's 30 minutes. Every sitcom is 30

minutes. I had a long discussion with John Sullivan and we decided that we'd

and put a gun to the head of the light entertainment department and said that

either they give us more time or...

Basically, John would withdraw his writing talents.

So, this was it that arrived at last, something this size, and it was a joy to

behold because we knew that now John was writing with much more

elbow room.

What a bloody L .M., eh?

How?

How?!

with a plot to rival any Hollywood heist movie to Hull and Back saw the Trotters

diversify from market trading to diamond smuggling as they set sail to Amsterdam

for their highest stakes deal to date. It's such a funny idea and it's so in

character of Uncle Albert with all his tales, seafaring tales, he's finally

tested. Right!

Quite a bit. You mean Starboard. I mean right. Don't start all that Captain

Bird's eye, bloody cobblers.

We had to go out to the gas rigs, and after about four hours, there were

two actors and the make -up department left who weren't seasick.

They're sick now.

What? I'll leave without you, tart.

We've only just started.

You could not believe what was coming off the side of this boat.

Oh, God.

Buster, I'm afraid, played a very good filthy sea dog, but unfortunately in

life, it wasn't the case at all.

Oi!

Oi! John!

Holland!

What? Which way to Holland?

Holland?

It's over there!

Cheers, pal!

The day before, we flew out to the rig.

to have a look at the shots and what we could use.

And somebody on the rig said, so what are you doing?

And we told them, the gag is that we go out to the rig and say, well, you're

right for Holland.

So that's funny, isn't it?

And this guy went, well, that happens quite often, actually.

Rodney, see?

Don't know the way, you just got asked someone, ain't you?

Bye.

Coming up, we discover how a shoot across the pond put the frightness up

cast and crew.

Stick up its mouth and see what it does.

And why John Chalice was left on his own to entertain the Serbian nation live on

television. That was a moment.

In the 64 episodes of Only Fools and Horses, we get to see a variety of

Peckham's glamorous hotspots.

The waste disposal plant.

Oh, you said it was open 24 hours a day?

Yeah, but not at night.

The graveyard.

Oh, it's gone quick, Rodney, dead after eight. Even the local supermarket.

John Sullivan would grab every opportunity to get the Trotters out of

and into the real world.

Whenever you see them step outside, you know, Nelson Mandela House, or they're

not in the nag's head, as you watch it, you're going, yes!

You're going, this is going to be great!

You can

imagine the suits at the BBC saying,

so sorry, what, there's a gunman and a hostage and it's a sitcom.

Really?

Ain't I seen you somewhere before? No, no, no, no, no, no. I ain't been

before, have I, Rodney?

No, no, no. You spoke at home all the time.

Before I did the show, it was one of my favourite comedy shows.

And I knew it could grab, like, a 17 million audience.

And I knew I had a job on my hands.

Do you remember the Scarlet Pimpernel?

It weren't you, is it?

But I'm like him. That was a real onion of an episode, I thought, because the

three main characters, for want of a better expression, are very neatly

sidelined just to be part of the device of an overall plan of someone else's.

They seek him out.

They seek him there.

Those policemen seek him everywhere.

Is he in heaven or is he in hell?

That damn elusive shadow.

It was Nicholas Lindhurst who said to me, why don't you say sha -a -do?

Do it like that. Sha -a -do.

So thanks, Nick.

After a stressful night, and with the sha -a -do asleep, it was time for

to take matters into his own hands.

I call it the Sullivan rug pull.

Just when you think you know exactly what's going to happen, he just goes,

wrong, I'm going to do this instead.

You palonka!

Besides the nagged head, one of Del and Rodney's other regular haunts was Sid's

calf, though with its deplorable hygiene standards.

brusque service and questionable grub, viewers may have wondered why they even

went there in the first place.

What are you talking about?

Why did they go to Sid's Calf?

Well, it's close.

It's close by and it's run by a mate.

Every workman in the entire country has got a Sid's Calf.

There's a hare in this.

Is there?

There's another one.

That's disgusting, that is, Sid. If the health authorities saw this, they'd

close you down.

I've been closed down for a lot worse than that, Denzel.

I think that's politically correct, people. Yeah.

What do you have, Intrigue?

I'll try some of that porridge.

That was the fun of it. Taking every classic greasy spoon that you'd ever had

your life and putting it all together in Sid's calf.

Thank you, Sid. That was...

Horrible, as usual.

Cheers, Dale.

While only fools and horses brought Peckham into the national consciousness,

was in fact filmed primarily in Acton, West London.

I'm going to make you a rich dental!

12 miles from Peckham, but on the doorstep of BBC Television Centre.

Sorry, Dewey, the Lord's work's called.

Filming in London.

They just took no prisoners. They would just stop the shoot.

People would come by and go, I was actually convinced

that these people were going home and going back into the house and say,

darling. Do you know what?

I saw Dallin Rodney down the market this morning.

Not I saw David Jason and Nick Lenders filming.

Fools and horses.

No, I saw Dell and Rodney down the market.

Yeah, we were now so embedded in the psyche of everybody that we were real.

Yeah, exactly.

Away you go, everyone, everyone, go on before you get your collars felt. Go on,

away you go. We were getting more and more popular as the series went on.

And with that popularity, filming was becoming more and more difficult.

The press were getting more and more interested in what we were doing. So we

were always on the lookout for paparazzi.

So it was decided we should try to get out of London, and I went around looking

for somewhere to go and landed on Bristol.

But such was the popularity of the show when production moved to Bristol, so did

the press. And in 1996, when filming the Christmas Day special, the paparazzi

were there en masse to get the scoop on the show's big comedy reveal.

I'm not getting out dressed like this. And they sent a trainload of press

people. And what they wanted was obviously the shot of you as Batman and

Yes. And it was just such a spoiler.

Yeah. So when they were filming, David and Nick were kept hidden to the very

last minute and then some of the lights were turned on photographers because

there were photographers there and to stop them getting the images.

We had this sort of like sweet spot.

When the pub shut and before the club turfed out at about four o 'clock in the

morning, that was the time where we could shoot.

Said, right, David, Nick, out the camera, run!

Back in the thing. Doubles.

So nobody could take the photograph. And they never, ever got the photograph.

You tart, Rodney.

We cut to a foot coming out.

And it was either with the blue boots. That's it. And we came off.

And then...

Nick Lidger's coming out like, the thinnest Robin you've ever seen in your

And the whole place went bonkers.

Will you get back inside the van?

I don't want people seeing you dressed like that.

I like volley.

I don't know if you remember it, but every time Nick started to speak, I

to laugh.

And then when I started to speak, Nick would start laughing.

Do you know, we could be there in five minutes, if we ran.

We'll be seen.

But when you look at someone dressed like a loony trying to be serious, we

couldn't, we kept breaking up and it took you ages to get it. I'm sure, I'm

sure. What's happening?

I just died here.

You're watching two of your friendly, lovable rogues doing something even more

ridiculous than you'd ever imagined.

You may remember me. I wrote to you some time ago about... Bill!

Let's go!

Sorry, my stack.

Harry died yesterday.

Harry died.

The only Fools and Horses feature -length episodes had bigger

storylines with bigger budgets to match, often allowing John Sullivan to get the

Trotters out of Peckham and into the wider world.

Look out, Margate, and look up your daughters, eh?

All right, Ellen?

I always felt when they went away, I was always on the end of the telephone.

Oh, was I?

So I'd just be brought in for a day to go, oh, good, I'm glad you're having a

good time. Put the phone down.

Unfortunately for Gwyneth and Tessa, Cassandra and Raquel were also left at

when John Sullivan came up with a storyline in one of the most glamorous

locations you'd ever expect to see a BBC comedy.

Miami.

Miami. It was fantastic because none of us were known in America at all. So we

had a fine time. We could go out to restaurants together and not have the

traffic stopping in the street and all the pictures and all that sort of thing.

That was lovely.

This feature -length episode had David Jason playing Del Boy Trotter and his

mafia Don Doppelganger, Vincenzo Occhetti.

Somewhere out there lies the answer to my problem.

When the mob realise Del is a perfect lookalike, They try to kill him off in

front of witnesses so that the FBI think it's the Don who is sleeping with the

fishes. People always seem to like me and I just don't know why.

Well, maybe we all didn't know.

When we went to Miami, we had a lot of American actors who didn't know the

Oh, my God.

Somebody call an ambulance.

Is he dead?

No, but it was bloody close, Rico.

They watched the show and they could not understand why the show had not gone to

America. They used to wander around the set going, lovely jubbly.

Joe Boy got himself in and out of a number of scrapes in Miami, including

escaping from a first -story window and a ride on a high -powered jet ski.

But unlike Don Vincenzo Occhetti, David Jason had no double to do the stunts for

him. And this is the throttle.

You said, just keep going, and I'll tell you when we cut.

What you didn't realise was when you're sitting on a jet ski

with the water and it going full power, there's an awful lot of noise.

And he there, he goes, and cut.

And cut!

Hey, cut!

He shouted. I couldn't hear him at all. I'm still going.

And the support boat, which we had to keep up with, couldn't keep up with him.

David was literally halfway to Cuba.

And it wasn't only Dale who had to do his own stunts. Well, when I first read

the script...

and they said Dell and Rodney are sitting on a log and an alligator comes

between them.

My first reaction was, well, it won't be real, because the BBC wouldn't do that.

Yeah, yeah, they would.

Down on the ground looking up was John Rhodes with a camera, and eventually the

handler took a stick and went straight up the backside of his alligator.

The alligator turns and goes...

Like that.

John Rhodes ended 100 metres down the road.

God, Andy.

He left the camera running, thank God.

I want a crocodile.

I know a crocodile and I can't face to face with one. I've seen enough Tarzan

films.

Some of the stuff that the actors have to put up with, honestly, real live

alligators ready to eat them.

Oh, but you producers and directors are saying, stick up its bum, see what it

does. It'll be all right. We're insured.

And the local wildlife weren't the only predators to watch out for. A few days

into filming... Producer Gareth Gwendolyn found himself in a row with

unions off -screen in a plot similar to what was happening on -screen.

We are in deep, deep shtook.

This is mafia country.

We'd never heard of the Teamsters. We were so naive, you know. And, of course,

they came along one day and said, you can't do this, you've got to have some

more of our staff.

And Gareth said, excuse me, we're the BBC.

And Gareth ended up in this team's office with a 20 -stone guy with a cigar

a leopard -skinned armchair sitting there. And Gareth went in and said, you

know, normal thing, excuse me, I don't care what you say. And this guy just

looked at him and said, I tell you what, I don't give a... You can just go home

if you don't want to go and do this.

And Gareth decided that the BBC...

way of doing things possibly wasn't going to work at this game. So he came

very sheepish, going, don't worry, I think I've sorted it. Just get a few

staff.

You palonka!

After the break, we'll see how Boise danced for the Serbian nation and how

Trotters were lost in translation.

Only Fools and Horses is the most watched show in British TV history.

But it isn't just British viewers who have laughed and cried at the exploits

Dale and Co.

I am constantly surprised at how far this comedy show has reached.

I walked into a pub once and this guy said, you Mickey, Mickey Pierce.

He said, we Sarajevo.

Bombs, mortars come in the basement.

Looking fools and horses laughing.

I did a show many years ago about chimpanzees and we were hacking through

jungle somewhere in northern Uganda and we heard pangas and machetes coming the

other way and one of them just hacked past me and didn't even...

Bat an eyelid and went, all right, Dave, and just hacked on in the opposite

direction.

The only full stars are known all over the world and have appeared in the

unlikeliest of places.

John Chalice even had this memorable encounter with Serbia's answer to Graham

Norton. My whole life story for two and a half thousand dinars.

That is a very good deal. What started off as a personal appearance to plug

of his autobiographies soon took a turn for the surreal. The presenter suddenly

had some sort of heart flutter or something and suddenly had to go and get

medical treatment, leaving me alone with this audience in a television studio in

Belgrade.

What do you do?

I don't know if you speak the language, you know.

Unable to speak but a few words of Serbian, John Chalice had no option but

resort to the universal language of dad dancing.

That was a

moment.

Only fools is so popular abroad, some countries have even made their own

versions.

I love

things

like this.

Roughly translated, Slovenia gave us brother to brother.

It's rather good, isn't it?

Spent more on the credit than we did.

The duck churned out what's it worth.

Oh, we got a dog in it now.

And the Portuguese produced Furo Vida, a local expression for someone living

outside the law.

Little stale boy. That stale boy looking like Boise.

No.

Granddad appears to be universal.

At least they get four wheels on that, then.

Various countries all adapted the original scripts.

You know what's coming here, don't you?

Which made for some instantly recognisable, yet strikingly different

Even Del's faux French was given an interesting linguistic spin by his

counterpart.

Where are you from?

From, from, yeah, from.

From, who from?

See you later.

Thank you.

The ultimate test for the foreign remakes are in recreating the show's

iconic scenes.

Who's meant to be Dolboy?

Oh, there's your brace yourself.

Yeah.

That's pretty close, isn't it? That is hilarious.

It works.

They copied that shot well, didn't they? Yeah.

Yeah, well done.

Well done.

Tick VG.

It's universal, isn't it, a physical comedy?

That is very, very funny in any language in the world, because the wrong

chandelier falls.

So it's fantastic.

Yeah, and that lovely build -up, shot for shot. And also, well, they had to

shoot that exactly the same, so that works. They just have to do it the way

did it, otherwise it's not very funny.

But it's not always quite such a flattering imitation.

Interesting they're doing it drunk.

I wonder why.

Oh,

no.

Nearly. Nearly worked.

Yeah, it's not quite the trigger turn, is it?

He's doing funny walks now, and he's putting a joke on a joke.

It's almost a different scene. It's about something else. It's not about the

falling through the bar.

It's about being very drunk.

It's about, yeah, sort of the chaos is there, where in the other one they're

very organised, they're very still, and then that happens.

So, yeah, it's interesting to see. Different interpretation.

It shows you how fragile and how brilliant the actual concept is.

And that's a parallel universe that shows you it's not the actual joke

it's the performance and it's the care.

Because just somebody falling through the bar, particularly if they're saying,

oh, no, I'm in a comedy.

Ooh. With fewer readers providing an interpretation that was anything but

jubbly... Let's see how one of the greatest moments in British comedy could

done. In a Peckham wine bar, with Del Boy and Trigger out to impress the

I think we're on a winner here, Trey. All right? Play it nice and cool, son.

Nice and cool, you know what I mean?

Falling through the bar?

Yeah. No, I mean, when David did it, obviously it became an instant classic,

rightly so.

LAUGHTER David Jason's fall is worthy of Buster Keen, you know. I mean, it is. I

can't offer higher praise than that. But it very, very nearly wasn't going to be

in the show at all.

It was purely because Roger Lloyd Pack...

At the time, he was doing pretty much every show on the BBC, it seemed, and he

couldn't be in an episode, and then he was given some time off, and so he came

in just to say hello, and John went, oh, can you do a bit? Because we're missing

you in this episode, you're not in it. And he went, yeah, I can do a scene.

Straight up, straight up, we're leaving.

So John wrote a scene, pretty much there and then, that involved the trap.

Ain't you going to try for them birds?

No, no, you're cramping my style, mate, you're cramping my style.

That, again, is a classic example of the brilliance of John Sullivan.

This is Derek.

Au revoir.

How amazing that, you know, to be involved in a programme that's been so

and is still so popular is nothing but a privilege.

Lovely jubbly.

It has really captured the world's imagination, and it still is.

You know, there are still countries just getting to know it. Oh, shut up, you

tart!

The stories that I've heard in places like... Hong Kong, Singapore, in the

middle of Africa is a little tiny shack of a shop going Delboys.

And they are told that if you want to earn a bit and ingratiate yourself to

Brits, you just say, lovely jubbly, and it said, you know, the world will be

your oyster.

No income tax, no VAT, no money back, no guarantee.

Black or white, rich or poor.

We'll tell prices that are true.

God bless Hookie Street.

Viva Hookie Street.

Long live Hookie Street. Same 90 feet.