All language subtitles for Only Fools and Horses s01e06

I'll fetch the suitcase from the bank.

Cause if you want the best ones, 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...

Yeah, I was watching that.

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.

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 for being able to make you laugh.

And being able to make you cry.

It's time next year.

We'll be millionaires.

Celebrating the wonderful comedy world
of John Sullivan.

we'll be getting the inside story on the
Trotters from the horse's mouth.

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 sets,
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 any Fools and Horses.

really, really, really the best.

Over the next hour, we'll be focusing on
family matters.

What is it, Del?

Your little baby.

And, as a rare treat, we can reveal a
lost episode which has never been

broadcast on TV ever before.

I've just made the deal that he's going
to make us millionaires.

And in another first... We also have a
deleted theme, saved from the cutting

room floor.

So sit back and enjoy the definitive
story of Only

Fools and Horses, the show which has
given us some of the most memorable

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.

What's that dirty looking thing?

That is your uncle, Rodney.

Family. It's a bond, it's a tie, it's an
anchor.

Call it what you will, but blood is
thicker than water.

A sense of family is what holds the
whole show together.

I love you, Trotter.

Yes!

It may well be one of the reasons why it
holds such an important place in so

many people's hearts. The audience looks
at it and goes, that's us, that's my

family.

That's always good when your audience
can put on your characters like a pair

shoes and think these fit, these are
comfortable.

You've seen my teeth.

You trod your mouth.

Edward Kitchener Trotter, known to us
all as Grandad, was the head of the

tree. What are you doing?

I'm trying to get the Dukes of Hazzard.

A Wilkshire tele -addict. who lounged
around Nelson Mandela House in old

and a Panama hat.

He just sat there for three series, just
sat in the same chair and got all the

big laughs.

Have a good day, Bill.

He had that voice which is absolutely
authentic.

So many people had a voice that was just
out here and said art and a part, never

mind about all that.

That showed a vulnerability.

That was clever, because that always put
him in a situation where it got Del's

sympathy. Del, boy, I burnt your pizza.

The role of the whiny and wily old goat
came towards the end of Leonard Pierce's

illustrious career after a lifetime on
stage.

Leonard Pierce had been a jobbing actor
for sort of 50 years.

He'd trained at RADA.

He'd worked with the Royal Shakespeare
Company, he'd worked with the National

Theatre. He'd been touring the country,
going into different reps, being in

different small parts in different
plays.

Did you know Leonard Pierce met Hitler?

No, you didn't know that, did you?

When he was a young actor, he did a tour
around Europe and they were playing

some small German city somewhere and the
Nazis walked in.

The top honchos of the Nazi party had
seen the play.

and came to congratulate, and Leonard
shook hands with Adolf Hitler, and

he only ever told me once, and he said,
had I known then what I know now, I

would have drawn the pistol from one of
the bodyguards that was next to him, and

I would have done my best to kill him.

While Leonard Pierce didn't single
-handedly defeat the Nazis, he did

national treasure status.

albeit nearly 50 years later.

That fame that I guess most actors kind
of crave to a degree and that success

and that recognisation by the general
public had eluded him. You're like me,

Rodney. I never ever found it easy to
get girlfriends.

I wonder why.

For someone of his age, he'd been even
thinking about retiring. And then

suddenly, with only fools and horses,
you know, he'd go out shopping and he'd

recognised and they'd call him Grandad.

And then suddenly... He was hugely
famous, and not only that, loved by the

nation. Del's gone out.

I'm not sure.

Where are you going to, Del?

Series 3 was our most successful to
date, and Leonard fell ill during

for Series 4, and it was a bitter blow.

We knew that Leonard had been in
hospital for a couple of days, and he'd

asking for the scripts, and we were
saying, forget the scripts, just get

We'll wait for you until you're good to
come back.

Sadly, just as his health appeared to be
returning, Leonard Pierce suffered a

heart attack and passed away.

A terrible shock, because you've got to
remember that we were all very, very

close. We all liked each other very,
very much, and we worked very closely

together.

Well, it was, it was, like losing a
member of your own family.

The BBC, because the series had been
commissioned, obviously they wanted to

us a certain time to grieve, if you
like, but at the same time they were

going, when do we expect the shooting to
start again?

So the discussion went of how we were
going to replace Leonard,

and there were a number of thoughts, and
one was...

that will carry on with a lookalike
granddad.

Both John and I were very against that
because,

as John Sullivan put it, he said, no,
no, I'm not going to do that. That's

disrespectful for Leonard, who was a
member of the family.

Unprecedented in TV comedy, John
Sullivan decided to write the death of

Pierce into the show to give granddad a
send -off.

fitting for one so loved by the cast,
crew and viewers.

I remember that day very well.

It was snowing.

And it was also doubly poignant because
we'd just done it for real.

And here we are, filming a pretend one,
which I didn't really get my head round

for a good few days.

It was a lovely service, Vicar. Thank
you very much.

Has anyone seen my hat? It was... And
even in

a really sad day for us as a cast and
crew.

Yeah, that was funny.

It's just us two now, bruv.

Me and you against the rest.

Don't stand a bloody chance today, eh?

As the old adage goes, the show must go
on. And wanting to keep three family

members living under one roof, John
Sullivan introduced a long -lost

Oh, my bloody head! John had to
frantically write a character

that perhaps it would have taken him
months, I don't know, but it would have

taken me years to work out that sort of
character that...

Uncle Albert had.

Under pressure to write quickly, John
Sullivan's inspiration for The Eccentric

Old Uncle came from an unlikely source.

Mustard Merrifield was a bank manager.

He'd always wanted to be in the theatre,
and he said, I don't care if I just

sweep stages, I'm going to give up the
bank and get into Sobis.

And he sent his photograph in to the
production office.

And it happened to land on the deck at
the right time.

And John said, let me have a look at
that photo.

He said, he looks as though he could be
a Navy man.

During the war, I was on this hospital
ship.

One night it was so cold, the flame on
my lighter froze.

As soon as he starts, during the war.

During the war... Oh, God, look at the
time. No, it's another exaggerated

fairy story.

Well, during... If you say during the
war once more, I'm going to pour this

of tea right over your head. I wasn't
going to say during the war. Well,

all right, then.

Bloody little no.

All right.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

During the 1939 -1945 conflict in
Germany...

One more story, which was thought to
have sunk without praise, we have found

among the archive.

Cut from the final version of the show,
as it was overrunning, Uncle Albert's

tale of visiting America has never been
shown since it was recorded in 1991.

War the war.

Last soldiers there, everybody.

1930 it was. We sent a fleet over to
North America on a friendly visit to a

Canadian and US cities.

I'm away.

Our last port of call was Chicago.

One night I went out for a quiet drink
and Al Capone and his mob come in.

Of course I didn't know anything about
them.

Well, the barman told me he was a
racketeer.

But I thought he said he was a
raconteur.

So I said, oh, yeah, tell us the story.

Oh, dear me, old Scarface got the right
needle.

Yeah, he told one of his blokes to take
me outside and shoot me.

So why didn't he?

Oh, he discovered I was a British sailor
and changed his mind.

I hate people who dither.

It's just a lovely non -story, isn't it?

And it's lovely to be able to see
perhaps bits that no -one else has seen

have always been there.

are valuable.

They're very fools and horses, but
sadly, they've had to go.

And I think that one is a good case in
point.

Coming up, the Trotter wives take centre
stage.

And we have a very special treat.

What are you, Bo?

As we reveal an episode which has never
been seen on television before.

An oil rig. Classic.

Welcome back to the story of Only Fools
and Horses as we climb up the Trotter

family tree.

As the series went on, it branched out
from being three men in a tower block...

Yeah, we're all on our own, we don't
need no birds.

No, no.

..to an extended family with partners,
kids and in -laws.

I think the most important injection

is when the women start coming into it.

Is it Derek?

Raquel? My name's Rodney. Oh, Cassandra.

We've reunited actors Tessa Peake -Jones
and Gwyneth Strong to discuss what it

was like to play the partners of Del and
Rodney Trotter.

I'm glad we bumped into each other
because I was trying to find a way of

hello to you and I think it's really,
you know, sort of liberated of you to

the first move.

Move?

No, you don't understand. You've taken
my coat.

When you went into it with Cassandra
meeting Rodney, did they tell you that

were going to be in it like a regular
from then on and marry him and do all

stuff? Did you know all that before you
got the job? No, not at all. What did

they tell you? They just told me I was
coming to do one episode, then there was

another episode, then another episode,
and sort of got to the end and thought,

oh, I've done a whole series.

Oh, and that's how it was?

Yeah, and then after that... So it
wasn't like you will be playing the new

partner of Rodney? No, that's why it's
quite funny because people say to you,

don't they, oh, you know, how did you
feel about coming into this huge series

and the success of it and everything?
And the truth was we didn't really think

like that.

If I was to meet a handsome, wealthy
young man and he asked me to marry him,

you know what I'd say?

What? I'd say, ciao, Rodney, and you
wouldn't see me for the tinted windows

his Porsche.

But until that time, I'm happy to drag
along with you.

I think a lot of Cassandra's
contribution as a character

was about class.

Her mother was quite... I think she's a
bit snobby. I think she had

invested Cassandra with, you know, get
on in life. Coffee, everyone?

Mummy, I was about to do that. That's
all right, darling.

You were talking with Stephen. I thought
I might as well make myself useful.

She was a spoiled little girl.

Well, she was. She was Daddy's darling.
She was Daddy's darling, and Daddy

wanted the best for her.

How Rodney got Rodney.

I won't always be doing this.

Doing what?

Well, selling crap down markets.

I'll get my diploma in computer science
soon, then things will change.

You don't have to prove anything to me,
you know, Rodney.

Well, you've got a good job in a bank,
haven't you? And your dad's a successful

businessman, and me, well, I'm an
apprentice fly pitcher.

It was never that Cassandra's character
would ever sort of criticise him for who

he was or where he'd come from, ever.

It was like that was just a sort of
unspoken rule that John wouldn't go

because he knew that whatever...

Class or area you were from in life you
everyone had a right and you you

everyone wanted to be better wherever
you were

I'm just

going to the ladies And what about you
was yours well known because mine

was a one -off and it was then later on
that they I think Probably because by

then your theories had gone out and
they'd seen the impact that having

longer term with one of the characters
was working, and maybe then John

oh, well, maybe Del Boy should have
someone too.

Oh, sorry, these are for you.

But when Raquel and Del first began
their relationship, it wasn't long

John Sullivan steers them into choppy
waters.

Able seaman Albert Trotter, you are
hereby ordered by Her Majesty the

by the High Lords of the Admiralty, and
by all your friends and relatives, to

have a very happy birthday!

Just when you take it that it's going to
be hilarious that there's a girl, you

know, stripping off and everyone's sort
of having a laugh at the pub.

You know, the core of that scene is that
Del Boy is going to be really

humiliated in front of all his friends.

actress you've been telling us so much
about.

Even Del, the depth of his emotion was
beginning to show that he was really

feeling for this girl. He was falling
for her, you know, in a way he'd never

fallen for anybody before.

I seem to remember also that is the
Christmas special that won the BAFTA,

wonder why, because, you know, John had
incorporated such feelings of sort of

passion and heartache, and, you know,
and I thought that scene outside the

strippergram scene was a joy to play and
proper, you know, proper drama.

This is probably a daft question, but do
you want to see me any more?

Yes, of course I want to see you again,
sweetheart.

The next time I'll pay at the door like
all the other punters.

I don't think anyone had any intention
of her coming back, and I think it was

only when they'd sort of played it
through and it had been shown, and I

John then thought, oh, I wonder if
there'd be more mileage to see Del Boy

settling down, perhaps, or at least
having a more serious relationship with

woman.

Once Raquel was established as Del's
partner, it wasn't long before the

became a family.

Who is it, friend or enema?

Friend or enema?

Shut up, Del.

Back in the trotter bed together again,
Sir David Jason and Tessa Peake -Jones

talk about the finer points of playing
pregnant parents.

You know when you were, I was going to
say, using Del Boy's vernacular, up the

duff with Damien?

Did you have a cushion stuffed up your
shirt? I must have had a padding because

I'd never had a child myself. Do you
remember when we were shown that birth

video by the midwife who thought it
would help us in the scene and we all

sick after breakfast?

That was hilarious.

And Buster said, I think I'm going to be
sick.

We all sat there watching, you know, the
afterbirth and all the things of that.

Oh, God, did we? That was hilarious.

Steady on, Raquel, steady on.

Yes, you did eventually, huh? Now you
know what it's bloody well like!

That was a great scene that you played.

And it really made me laugh because it
was so real.

And wasn't that scene written around
John having his baby with his wife?

she hurt him? I think she actually hurt
him during the birth and said, this is

what it's like, this is a tiny bit of
what I'm feeling.

That's why it was so real. That's why it
was such a joy to act. Absolutely.

Because it was all based on real stuff,
wasn't it? And real people.

We've got ourselves a lovely little
baby.

Oh, no.

I love you.

I love you too, sweetheart.

We've done it.

You bloody dummy.

Congratulations, son.

What is it, though?

It's a little baby.

Coming up, who does Rodney think he is?
As we trace the Trotter family line.

Lovely jubbly.

And also, a lost episode which has never
been seen before on British television.

He who dares wins.

We're off and running.

Only Fools and Horses is John Sullivan's
masterpiece.

That's a wrap.

Which gave us the Trotters, possibly the
most loved TV family of all time.

Yet these wonderful characters weren't
his only comedy creations in a prolific

career which spanned over 30 years.

Oh, yeah!

He was a genius, right? I mean, he was
an absolute kind of genius.

This guy was just a powerhouse of TV
sitcoms. He was a TV sitcom factory.

Enormous amount of work he's done.

I mean, the sheer body of work is... No
-one can compete with that, I don't

think. It's astonishing.

John Sullivan may just have been the
last hurrah of the great working -class

comedy writers.

His first job in television was shifting
scenery on comedies such as Porridge

and It Ain't Half Hot Mum, but his
burning ambition to be a writer drove

make a bold approach to comedy producer
Dennis Mayne Wilson at the BBC Bar.

I just said to him, I thought I'd
introduce myself, my name's John

because we're going to be working
together soon.

And he said, well, what on, what's that?
I said, it's a new thing that I've

written. Well, I hadn't written it.

And I thought, well, fire me or, you
know, and he just laughed and just said,

let's have a drink, you know, and great,
great guy. And he said, well, go off

and write some bits for the two Ronnies.

So John did that, and then he came back
with his script idea for Citizen Smith,

which he thought, John thought, was his
best.

best idea so far and he showed it to
Dennis and then went away to do some

writing and then they came back and they
said we love it and within eight weeks

it was in production and on TV Citizen
Smith is a comedy

about the misadventures of a hapless
South London revolutionary I adored that

show And I look back at it now and I'm
not quite sure why I loved it as much as

I did. But I loved the character.

All those in favour of a revolution
tomorrow afternoon, say Fulham. Fulham.

Thank you, brothers.

It was one of the funniest comedies I'd
seen at the time.

There was just something unusual about
it.

Yes, Citizen Smith certainly caught our
attention as writers.

It just seemed to be out of the mould of
the sitcoms we'd been used to seeing.

The success of tonight's mission...

depends entirely on precision and split
-second timing, right?

What time are we meeting?

Eight -ish.

I don't think John Sullivan would have
written Only Fools and Horses if he

hadn't written Citizen Smith first. That
was a big learning curve.

It also alerted the BBC to here's a
writer...

Not quite there yet, hasn't quite found
the thing that will capture the public,

but he's capable of it, and he put his
flag down with Citizen Smith.

In 1981, John Sullivan was writing the
first series of Only Fools and Horses,

and at the same time, writing sketches
for The Two Ronnies, which at times

presented challenges for the up -and
-coming comedy writer.

There's a great story that he had a gag
that was going to be in the two Ronnies

about antibiotics.

Then he heard that it was going to be
cut from the two Ronnies, so John, being

ever resourceful, thought, I know, I can
use that in any falls.

Do you remember when Grandad was in
hospital about 18 months back, they gave

so many of these antibiotics that one
day he sneezed and two other blokes got

better.

But then I think he found out at a late
stage that it was such a good gag that

the two Ronnies wanted to use it as
well.

Take last year when I was in hospital
having that British Rail donut removed.

They stuffed me full of antibiotics
then, didn't they?

I had so many pills I sneezed one
morning and the bloke in the next bed

better.

Both of them now are such great gags in
the folklore of both shows.

During the early 80s, as Fools and
Horses established itself as a regular

BBC's schedules, John Sullivan didn't
rest on his laurels.

John was beavering away on another show
called Just Good Friends, which was a

massive hit.

What would you say?

Beautiful, gentle, funny, romantic
comedy.

Just Good Friends is based on a...

a young couple, one called Vince that I
played and a character called Penny that

Jan Francis played.

And it's about how they meet again after
five years.

I'm surprised you remember me.

Oh, I can never forget you, Vincent.
You've always been unique.

You're the only bastard who ever jilted
me.

The core of it was, will they, won't
they get together again?

I'm sorry, I'm a little overwrought at
the moment.

I'm trying to give up smoking and it
makes me edgy.

How long have you been trying to give it
up?

Since I've died.

I've tried everything.

Chewing gum, pills, even acupuncture.

I can't stand anything like that.
Needles and injections.

There was no discomfort.

Didn't you feel a prick?

Well, I felt a bit... He had a gift,
obviously.

And it was evident from the first day I
picked up that script that this was

something special.

This was a special writer, which, of
course, has proved to be the case.

Extraordinary that he would write two
huge hit comedy series a year. I mean,

that was... God bless him.

Dear John... Hit followed hit. Dear John
was the tale of a middle -aged man

played by Ralph Bates, seeking solace in
the singles club after his wife had

left him.

the man who called himself my friend,
who ate at my table and then bedded my

wife.

And he was Welsh.

In the 1990s, John Sullivan added to his
impressive CV with three series of the

cab driver comedy -drama Roger, Roger.
Rain, this is Dan.

What's occurring?

The range of his work is quite
startlingly huge.

Every subject he did...

he brought to life.

If you asked him whether he thought he
was a great talent, he would

dismiss you out of hand, and that would
be a genuine response from him.

But he would always say, I'm the
luckiest writer alive.

As the other shows came and went, only
Fools and Horses outlasted them all.

Running for 22 years.

It's always hard to predict whether
something will continue to be popular

the years.

Fools and Horses has managed that. I
think it probably survives because it

touches a nerve and at the heart of it,
it isn't a high premise.

It isn't a situation which is of its
time. It's a very universal set -up.

a family.

The series concluded in 2003 with the
revelation that Rodney's father wasn't

Trotter, but a renowned Peckham villain
called Freddie Robdahl.

He was a womaniser, a homebreaker, a
conman, a thief, a liar and a cheat.

So no, Rodney.

You're nothing like him.

Only Fools and Horses had officially
finished.

But it didn't stop John Sullivan's
imagination exploring the family history

the Trotters, which was to become his
final TV project.

Rock and Chips was written very much
from John Sullivan's heart.

It was a story that he wanted to tell.

He said, I've got this idea.

He said, I know it's dangerous doing a
prequel. He said, but I've got this

story. Where did Del come from? Where
did, you know, that life, that world

from? What was their history?

And he said, and it centred around the
mum.

Here I am again, like a bad penny.

Mrs Trotter, how lovely to see you.

Kelly Bright came into the office and
that was it. We were set. We were good

go. She brought Joan to life. She had
this wonderful charm.

I like this.

This opera.

Classical. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto.

Brandenburg Concerto.

My character, Freddie Robdall, was this
really nasty piece of work who just

turns up.

He breaks into places.

He knows how to get in and threaten
people.

What do you think you're doing?

What's your name?

How do you know my name?

Oh, I know a lot about you.

Like how you like to play games with
girls.

A bit sissy, but each to their own.

Well, there are no girls around at the
moment, but I'm here.

I'm always up for a lark.

Who are you?

I'm the last bloke in the world you want
to meet.

Nick played that part so wonderfully
well, you know, full of nuance and

and at times very sinister and a big
heart

underneath it. The thing that struck me
about Rock and Chips was how we'd just

gone round in this full circle,
backwards.

Freddie Robdell could speak French and
he spent a lot of time with Del's

So there was just that little...

that perhaps it was Freddie Robdell that
started the French in Dell.

J 'adore un soixante -neuf.

I feel all right.

What's that?

It's French.

Where did you learn that?

At the Flicks, a Brigitte Bardot film.

What's it mean?

I was told it meant, I am enjoying this
dinner.

J 'adore un soixante -neuf.

That's brilliant.

God, you're really clever.

Thank you, darling.

Oh, my mum speaks French.

I tried to make a point of trying not to
do Del Boy as a way I would have done

him down the pub to impress my friends.

Oh, look at this impression of Del Boy I
can do. I tried to make it a lot

subtler and also to give the impression
that who I'm playing will eventually

turn into David Jason's Del Boy.

Au revoir, mon matre. May I speak, oh,
at Sacra Cura to Mademoiselle Barbara

Birdo, gracias.

French.

It's a piece of... Hello?

You know, Del Boy means just as much to
me as all those other people that would

have tuned in to watch Rock and Chips.

Lovely jubbly.

Three episodes of Rock and Chips were
made, but while John Sullivan was

on developing more... Tragedy struck.

We knew John had been ill for a while
and he'd been in hospital with viral

pneumonia and he was feeling better.

He was up and we'd been exchanging texts
because although

the BBC hadn't given a green light to
the next Rock and Chips, they'd hired

and reserved all the props.

And the furniture and the set, which is
kind of BBC speak for, yeah, well, we're

not going to tell you, but yeah, we've
got it all ready to go.

Yeah, and then the phone rang a couple
of days later and it was Gareth, our

producer.

And he said something along the lines
of, he's lost the battle.

And that's, I just went to bits.

It was...

an incredible shock to the system.

We were desperately sad, and it was one
of those

times where, as it happens to so many
people, you

just can't believe it.

John's passing left a big gap in my life
and many others, but a huge gap in

what he...

would be writing to this very day.

His work was incredibly important, but
his family were the most important

and that was the sadness, of course,
that he's now gone and left a huge hole.

My favourite memory of John Sullivan is
John laughing and seeing him

as the family man and where he loved to
spend all his time.

The only thing is that when I popped...
this mortal coil, at least I'll know

he's up there and I'll have a bloody
good laugh because he'll be there.

But yes, incredibly missed.

The success of Only Fools and Horses is
unlike any other British comedy.

Four episodes rank among the 20 most
watched TV shows of all time.

And new generations continuously join
the legions of loyal fans.

It still has this sort of snowball
effect. You get letters from people

just wanted you to know that there are
three generations of the same family

laughing their heads off at this
episode.

And that's astounding.

I wish I could put my finger on it and
say this is why it's so popular today.

The way people still talk about it and
fans gather and they share memorabilia

and they love re -watching episodes.

In some cases, the series have literally
marked fans for life.

I was at one of these signing
conventions, a chap turned up and rolled

trouser leg and plonked that on the
desk.

And it was covered in Fools and Horses
memorabilia.

Pictures of everybody, signatures of
everybody.

And he said, if you can find a space, he
said, you sign it, I'll get it inked in

later. There's a chap out in Bristol
that had the entire cast tattooed onto

back.

This is my body, so I do what I want to
do with my body.

It's quite expensive and it's painful.

After two or three hours it's OK, but
after four hours it starts stinging.

There was one...

A little glitch on the tattoo, though,
that I spotted. He's got the wrong

plate on the van.

But he'll never see it, so I'm sure it's
not a problem.

Brothers, look!

Look there, look!

It's a real -life BG!

All right, pass up!

Over the years, several famous fans have
been lucky enough to have brief cameos.

But only one, and perhaps the show's
most famous fan of all... has managed to

land a full acting role, albeit in a
sports relief sketch.

We are currently lumbered with 200 pairs
of men's pants that some git has

scribbled over.

What are you looking at me for? You
asked me to find them.

David Beckham, bless his heart, he was
so frightened.

He was so frightened.

Let's say his ability to act is not
quite as good as his ability to kick a

football, but then I'm not very good at
kicking a football, so be fair.

It was your idea to have Rodney model
him.

Oh, so it's my fault now, is it?

Look, I didn't want to wear the stupid
bloody things in the first place.

Oh, shut up, you tart.

He did ask me my advice about that
falling through the hatch business. At

he was...

very nervous about doing it, but I had a
little chat with him and he ended up

doing it extremely well. Are you David
Beckham?

I am, but don't tell anyone. I don't
want to draw any attention to myself,

right? OK. Good boy.

So hats off to him because he took it
seriously.

That's how he was a...

Good laddies, Dave.

And now something for all fans.

No matter how big a star you are, unseen
even by the cast and crew, we have

uncovered a missing episode which has
been lying on a shelf for decades and

never been broadcast on television ever
before.

Wake up, this is exciting.

Oh, no, I'm getting excited with my eyes
shut.

Licence to drill was made in 1984 after
John Sullivan was approached by a

petroleum company to make a one -off
educational special to be shown in

and was the last time Leonard Pierce
played the character of Grandad. Oh,

brings back some memories, Rodney.

A young -looking Nick, but lovely to see
Leonard.

In all his glory.

Up till now, I always thought that oil
was simply something you forgot to put

the front of the van.

But I know.

There's a hell of a lot more to it than
that, Rodney.

I'm talking about North Sea Oil and its
by -products.

Or hydrocarbons, as we like to call
them.

North Sea Oil and their by -products has
come straight out of the management.

I'm not going to have John Sullivan and
David Jast there. He wouldn't have

said... Could you? Just for us?

But he really wouldn't. Can't we just...
No, honestly, it's got to be North Sea

Oil and their by -products.

No -one's going to see this, are they?
No, all right, I'll say it.

Now, what have all these things got in
common?

They're all nicked.

No.

All right, well, what else have they all
got in common?

I'll tell you, shall I?

They're all made with oil.

Not a single item on this table could
have been made without the aid of oil

its by -products, methane, propane,
butane, and, of course, something else.

Where does he get all this from?

It's very educational.

It's almost like you could take any
subject, or John could take any subject

throw it at them and make it funny. Yes.

Well, that bloke we just met there is a
deep -sea diver, right? And up till

recently was working in the North Sea.

A couple of weeks ago, he decided to
jack it in and come down here.

What are you, Bo?

An oil rig.

An oil rig?

An oil rig.

What colour is he?

What colour is it?

I don't know what colour it is.

I haven't seen it yet.

We pick it up tomorrow morning.

Pick it up tomorrow.

You can tell when you've got moments
like that. That's John.

And where is this oil rig?

It's in a lock -up garage in Catford.

A lock -up in... I don't think you read
that magazine very well, did you?

Don't you figure we're going to do any
exploration or drilling?

That's the beauty of it, Rodney. We
don't have to.

We just lay low in our boat for a while
and we wait for one of the big oil

companies to move off the oil field.
Then we whip in a bit lively and use

oil.

Use their oil? I mean, you can just whip
down there with your pipe and connect

up and then we'll be pumping up crude.

Black. Gold.

Whereabouts are these oil fields then?

They're offshore, aren't they? That is
why they're called offshore oil fields.

When they say they're offshore, right,
they mean hundreds and hundreds of miles

offshore. Some of them are near Norway.

Norway?

That's in Sweden, isn't it?

You thought they were just a few hundred
yards out, didn't you?

Well, he's congenital, isn't he?

I mean, he has done you up like a
kipper, hasn't he?

He wasn't a sort of commie, was he,
Grandad? Of course not. He had an honest

face. Exactly.

In fact, he reminded me very much of
you, Del Boy.

Don't just sit there, Rodney. Go and get
the van started.

Go on, we've got to go and get after
him. He hides the keys.

Right. Go on, hurry up.

Stone me.

What a wally.

Classic. That was the van I just
remembered.

What about the man?

He's out of petrol.

I feel like I've died and gone to
heaven.

It's one thing that I think the world is
robbed of.

New Only Fools and Horses, particularly
with Granddad.

That's lovely to see.

There you go.

John is just the genius that we will all
miss.

He'd be so chuffed to know that people
are still watching it and still enjoying

it and new generations are getting
pleasure out of it.

Morning, love.

Nice to see you back on your feet.

It's because it has a wonderful feel
-good factor, doesn't it?

And I'm sure that's because John himself
was.

a family man, and he wanted the show to
be a family show.

Wave goodbye to your daddy!

And with each generation, it's still
going to be there, isn't it? So

people will still in 20th time be
getting as much pleasure as they have in

past and they are at the moment.

It was Leonard Pierce.

He came into work one day and he said,
do you know we're going to live forever?

What do you mean? He said, have you seen
them? They're VHS cassettes,

and you can record programmes on them.

He said, so that way, in a way, we'll
live forever, won't we?

And I always remember him saying that,
and I take comfort in knowing that

work will also live forever.

It's amazing, isn't it?

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

Black or white, rich or broke, we'll cut
prices at a stroke.

God bless Hookie Street.

Viva Hookie Street.

Long live Hookie Street.