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This is Only Fools And Horses as you've never seen it before.

Unseen take two.

After trawling through hundreds of film reels,

studio rushes, and videotapes,

we have uncovered a treasure trove of previously unseen comedy gold.

We appear to have a tiny problem.

Rodney's been nicked.

HE LAUGHS

We've unearthed a wealth of material

which even the cast and crew have never seen before...

"Bit of fluff"?

That's my daughter you're talking about.

No offence meant, Alan. Just having a laugh.

HE LAUGHS

Such a horrible character, Boycie.

- He is foul. - He was vile. - But the public love that.

...as well as dozens of scenes

which reveal so much more about the Trotter family...

I don't even remember this.

...and outtakes which have been lying untouched in the vaults

for decades.

That's a find. My goodness.

I think this whole new section of material they've never seen before,

I mean, I think they're going to be fascinated.

I think so, too.

Lovely jubbly.

Is that our phone I can hear ringing?

No.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

We ain't got a car phone.

Oh, my...

Between 1981 and 2003,

64 episodes of Only Fools And Horses were made.

It's really good to be back, Del.

Over time, it's become one of our most-loved comedies,

still keeping the nation laughing to this day.

You said it was open 24 hours a day.

Yeah, but not at night.

And every single episode was written

and masterfully crafted by one man, John Sullivan.

It was so exciting,

because you knew that once you were given the script,

you'd receive it in a brown envelope, usually posted to you,

you'd open it up and you'd think, "Oh, yeah, another winner.

"This is like Shakespeare."

As Macbeth said to Hamlet in Midsummer Night's Dream,

"We've been done up like a couple of kippers." Come on.

They were just a joy to read, because the descriptions before

the scene even started would have you in hysterics.

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please raise your glasses

to our future mum and dad, Cassandra and Rodney?

Cassandra and Rodney. Dave.

The first thing that happens is, at the read-through,

somebody's there with a clock and timing it.

Say it runs 35 minutes,

you know before you start you've got to lose five minutes,

so what we do is we go through that,

that, cut... We can cut from there to there,

and from there to there.

And constantly we're losing some very funny moments

that John Sullivan wrote.

I mean, this is beautiful, innit, eh?

Bet you've held a few balls in here, my lady.

What?! Oh, yes. Yes, we have.

As well as John Sullivan,

the responsibility for deciding which bits to lose

to get to time was down to director Tony Dow

and editor Chris Wadsworth.

45 years later and we're still being booked to sit on a sofa

- with a bunch of cameras listening to our rubbish. - It's our pension, mate.

And finding all these little extra bits.

Well, that's the fun of it all,

yes, all these bits that are now coming out of the woodwork,

on the cutting room floor are now saved.

And the man responsible for unearthing this lost archive

is former BBC producer and comedy archive specialist Richard Latto.

What we have found and gone back to are the original recordings

that were made when the programme was actually filmed and produced,

so the actual physical 16mm film that was in the cameras

when they shot these shows.

So, David, these contain some of the original recordings

of Only Fools And Horses, made back in the day,

so studio recordings, early edits of episodes, outtakes,

all on these, which were supposed to be wiped and reused,

- cos the BBC was always looking to... Save money. - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Nothing changes, does it?

The fact that Only Fools And Horses material has survived,

- it's quite remarkable, really, isn't it? - Yeah.

So first of all, here's something with Buster.

In 1986's episode A Royal Flush,

the Trotters find themselves a world away from Nelson Mandela House,

when they were invited to the posh country pile

of Rodney's latest girlfriend.

Would you like these, sir?

Nah, I can't listen to music while I'm shooting.

During the lavish evening meal,

Uncle Albert finds himself below stairs...

Ha-ha-ha! Cheers. Go on, my son.

...and typically has an old war yarn to spin,

one that's remained unheard until now.

I was in the life raft, about 20 yards from him.

Current was so strong, I couldn't reach him.

Then I saw it -

long black shape, white foaming line behind it,

hurtling towards him.

I shouted, "Watch out, Tommy,

"there's a torpedo heading straight for you."

Then I realised I was wrong. I said,

"Don't worry, Tommy, ain't a torpedo,

"it's a shark."

I bet that come as a great relief to him.

It was awful.

That story will haunt me till the day I die.

I know the feeling.

Oh, that's a nice little scene, that.

Oh, that's a shame that one got cut.

What's it like as well, to see something from Buster,

from Uncle Albert, from the key time when Only Fools was at its peak,

and it's never been seen before? It's technically new to all of us.

You think, "Oh, couldn't they cut somewhere else?"

You know, because it's a nice piece of characterisation of him

and his war effort, and he thought it was a torpedo

and it was a shark that obviously ate the bloke,

so, no, a lovely piece.

That I would want to be kept in.

Let's have a look at another one.

In the episode Chain Gang, the storyline revolves around Del

and his consortium buying and selling some hooky gold chains.

And here is the old do-re-mi.

Everyone's a winner. Apres moi, le deluge.

From the lost archives, we've recovered a never-seen-before moment

when Del Boy and Boycie get a little nervous

as the deal is about to go down.

Get your hand off mine.

- Eh? - I said get your hand off mine.

People will think we're a couple of woofters or something.

They can think what they like. I've got seven grand sitting up there,

that's all I'm concerned with.

Ooh!

What I mean is we mustn't draw attention to ourselves.

Got to appear like perfectly pukka people.

Don't do anything that'll make us look different, right?

All right.

Would you care to order now, gentlemen?

I'm not hungry.

Oh, that's a lovely little scene between Del and Boycie.

Especially with John Challis, who played Boycie,

he's a great... He was a lovely fella.

And a very good actor, as you can see.

Would you care to order now, sir?

Yes, I'd like an ambulance.

As Only Fools And Horses grew in popularity in the '80s,

so did John Sullivan's status as a comedy writer,

and when, in 1989,

he asked for episodes in series six to be 50 minutes in duration,

BBC execs were more than happy to agree to it.

What's happened?! It's Arnie. He's had a Connery.

I think they were quite nervous of losing John at that point.

John wanted more time.

John liked the 50s cos he could set several things up

and then it all sort of resolves and then,

- somehow, they all come together at the end. - Yeah.

For a 50-minute show, I can remember them being about an hour,

so ten minutes has got to go.

I suppose, again, that you have to look at it from the eyes of

the director and producer, and then John Sullivan,

the great master of the script.

They're looking for moments they could just take that out,

save them the time that they needed.

My money and my gold ain't going to no National Health hospital.

The entire kitchen staff will be off to Miami if it does.

- What you going to do? - Watch.

Don't panic. I am a doctor.

Stand aside. Stand aside. Let the dog see the rabbit.

Ow!

The great thing about John was he wasn't precious about

any of the material. Sometimes you dread writers being at edit suites,

because, "Oh, no, my words, my words," you know,

and this sort of thing, but, no, with John, it was straightforward,

and he would make a decision very quickly.

Can we talk about this?

Call the police. Yes. Yes, madam. I call the police.

Oh, not the police! Oh, bloody hell.

All right, there'll be no need, I am an officer of the law.

I thought they were taller than that.

I'm a small-town policeman.

He knew stuff had to go out, no worrying about it,

no angst of any kind, he would say,

"No, that's got to go, it's got to go."

Do you get the impression all is not going according to plan?

Cos one of my most favouritest meals is duck a l'orange,

but I don't know how to say that in French.

It's canard.

Well, you can say that again, bruv.

Only Fools has regularly been hailed as the best British sitcom

of all time, thanks to the combination of John Sullivan's

hilarious scripts and the phenomenal cast.

But of all the episodes, there is one which has frequently been hailed

as the best of the best by fans and even Sir David Jason himself.

- It's the Jolly Boys' Outing. - Mm.

The what? It's the Jolly Boys' Outing.

On Christmas Day 1989, over 20 million people tuned in

to watch The Jolly Boys' Outing,

making it one of the most-watched TV shows of the decade.

I can watch this episode over and over

and I'll still laugh myself, you know.

And at the same places all the time as well.

Jolly Boys' Outing is one of the biggest and funniest episodes

of Only Fools And Horses. Christmas Day, 1989,

the team were under such pressure to produce the edit of that

programme, and we have managed to find loads of material that

they simply weren't able to include and is still incredibly funny.

Two of the show's biggest fans

are the president of the Only Fools And Horses Appreciation Society,

Perry Aghajanoff, and successful author of several books

on the Trotters, Mike Jones.

Jolly Boys, when you look at Only Fools And Horses,

it's the kind of... it's the zenith.

It came just after Rodney got married,

so there's all those kind of issues with Rodney's marriage

slowly kind of dawning on him. Yeah, yeah.

- Roddy? - Mm?

Roddy! Roddy!

Oi, Albert, she only calls him Roddy, look.

In the opening sequences of The Jolly Boys' Outing,

we do see Alan and Rodney and Rodney's assistant,

whose name was Elvis.

Excuse me, sir.

Oh. What?

It's just all that data you had on your screen, it's on my one now.

In the work context, Rodney seems to be slightly at a loss...

Well, of course it is.

...as to what is actually going on, but, I mean, that's Rodney.

They don't know they're born, do they?

HE TUTS

How's that happened, then?

Oh, great stuff.

But that scene was cut. That was the end of the scene,

when I exit the office, that was it. Right.

That was the end of the scene.

But now we've got Rodney going off and checking up with Elvis,

you know, about what's going on on the computer, which is, you know,

makes more sense, it rounds it off much better.

Yes, yeah, yeah. It must've been, once again,

it must've been a question of time, I suppose.

That's the second time I've done that today.

Working with his father-in-law. Father-in-law and son-in-law.

And, actually, you know, not knowing that Rodney's actually

- quite useless, isn't he? So... Yeah, exactly. - So, you know...

Beginning to dawn on Alan, I think,

- that Rodney isn't the sharpest tool in the box. - Yes.

Yay! Lovely jubbly, ha-ha-ha.

Look out, Margate, and lock up your daughters.

Eh? Ha-ha-ha-ha.

All right, Alan?

And with your father-in-law in tow, who better to ratchet up

the embarrassment stakes than Terrance Aubrey Boyce?

So how's married life treating you, Rodney?

Oh, very nice, thank you.

Oh, yes, well, of course, you've only been married for one year,

haven't you? Another six months, she'll give you the ration book.

What ration book?

Didn't you know? After about 18 months,

they start rationing it.

Rationing what?

Rodney!

Oh!

BOYCIE LAUGHS

Difficult keeping a straight face I had in that one.

I just had to concentrate on the scenery going past,

because it would've been so easy just to burst into laughter

or at least get some sort of a twinkle or a grin or whatever.

But all I had to do was just try and think,

"They're talking about my daughter. They're talking about Rodney..."

There is the warmth between the men,

even though they're really cruel to each other.

- Yeah. - And you sort of think,"Oh, no, how could you say that?"

- But, actually, there's such camaraderie there. - Yeah.

And on one level, and it's horr... I don't even like saying it,

but they're all a bit of lo... They're all losers!

- Yes. - And they've all foundthemselves.

So they've found themselves together,

and so they're going to try and survive this ridiculous outing,

and, again, that's part of the love I think the audience has,

because, you know, they're not the big successful guys at all.

- No, none of them. - None of them are. - They're all... It wouldn't work.

Although Boycie thinks he is,

and, yes, he is more than the others, but somehow, that gelling

and, you just do see that warmth between them,

despite some of the horrible things

they say to each other. Yeah, absolutely.

In another never-seen-before moment, Boycie goes even further.

Here, here's a lesson for you, Boycie.

Even after a year of married life,

young Rodney's still head over heels in love.

Head over heels in lust more like.

He's always been the same -

like an obedient poodle when it comes to a bit of fluff.

"Bit of fluff"?

That's my daughter you're talking about.

Eh? Oh, yeah. No offence meant, Alan, just having a laugh.

I remember shooting that.

- Yeah? - Yeah. I remember thinking,"If I'm sort of half asleep

"and just open one eye, you know, just cock an eye at him."

Such a horrible character, Boycie.

- He is foul. - He was vile. - But the public love that.

I love Challis's stuff anyway. He just curls me up

whenever he opens his mouth. He's such a funny man.

There you go, another little gem. Another little gem.

They're all having a chat about Cassandra,

forgetting the dad was there.

Boycie, who was always jumping in with both feet.

Right, lads, only another ten minutes,

then we'll be at the halfway house.

That's when the serious stuff begins.

CHEERING

Yo!

Well, I mean, the most important thing about that whole thing

is actually filming on a coach, and what a nightmare it was,

and as you can see from that, just look at how many shots

there were of different people on that bus.

And we spent ages on that coach, didn't we?

Oh, didn't we? Oh, yeah. Seemed like days.

Well, it literally was.

Every time you did another shot of another person,

we had to move the camera, stop the bus,

move all the people out, get rid of the camera,

get rid of the sound. It was a day's nightmare,

if I remember rightly.

Tony Dow, the director, he just came along and chucked a ball to us

and said, "Play with it." That's right, yeah.

That's what he did, yeah. Just throw some lines in, yeah.

You know, so that's what you see us doing,

just having a laugh with each other, really.

Hey, do you have to practise that, or does it come naturally?

Just a bit rusty, that's all.

Rusty? You look more corroded, from where I'm standing.

Listen, Rodney, I done a trial at Chelsea.

Oh, how did you get on, Mickey? Probation, wasn't it?

You're just jealous of me skills.

Skills! Sure, Mickey.

- It brings back the memories, doesn't it? - Absolutely.

- Put 'em all back in. - Yeah, that'd befantastic. Should make one...

Put the whole episode out as the unedited version.

Absolutely. Don't forget the repeat fees.

The unbroadcast scene of Rodney and the boys playing football

was followed by this, which was in the final cut.

Rodney! Give me that ball.

Ruud "Gullet" - nowhere.

- Excuse me, sir. - Eh?

Here, what happened? Eh?

You - you're under arrest.

Did he get arrested or something? I can't remember.

- You don't remember, do you? - I don'tremember cos I wasn't there.

But what followed is yet another deleted scene.

Er, excuse me, gentlemen.

Gentlemen, could I have your attention, please?

MOANING No, just a minute.

Thank you very much. Erm, listen,

I'd like you all to bear with me for a short while.

We appear to have a tiny problem.

Rodney's been nicked.

JEERING

Your suit, look at that fantastic suit you were wearing,

- for that trip. - Yeah.

It's got everything, you know, all the bits and bobs of it,

and he'd gone to Margate, you know. Looked the absolute business.

Well, he always wanted to, you know, be... Everything had to be...

Absolutely pukka. ...absolutely right.

You know that overcoat you sold me dad?

- Yeah. - It's got a great big lumpin the back.

Well, of course. It's genuine camel hair, innit?

If you must know, Del, Rodney and I are trying for a baby.

Yeah, all right, I'll get off the phone, then, all right?

You know it makes sense.

Right, come on, then, Denzil, full ahead both - we're off to Margate.

The 1989 Christmas Special, The Jolly Boys' Outing,

was filmed in Margate, which meant the cast and crew

had to spend almost a month on location.

Jolly Boys' Outing is just a blast.

We've seen them all cooped up in these wonderful claustrophobic sets,

and now it's a wonderful chance to see the whole cast on location

having a great time.

That's the whole thing about Jolly Boys' Outing,

because, I mean, there really was, you know,

through the '60s and '70s, and '80s, you know,

- men did go away on outings on their own. - Sure. Absolutely.

And John has managed to really capture the way blokes are together,

and I say "blokes" rather than men cos they're all blokes,

aren't they, really, you know? DENIS CHUCKLES

And it was just a thing of its time, you know, and... Yeah, great stuff.

We met all the bigwigs of Margate,

they looked around,

and all I remember it being the worst day I'd ever seen,

it was raining and pouring, and the guy said to me,

"We'll do anything you like, whatever you want us to do,

"we'll close streets, we'll start this,

"we'll do this, just make Margate look a nice place."

And I thought to myself,

"Bloody hell, I'm a director, not a miracle worker."Yes. Yeah.

And the day we arrived, a few weeks later,

the sun came out and it never stopped shining

till the day we left. Amazing.

- Yeah, because it was a great place. It was. - Yeah.

While only a few seconds of the roller-coaster ride appear

in the actual finished programme, we have discovered,

in the lost archive, the rushes from that day's shoot.

NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE

Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson

I sent them round about two or three times so I made all the shots,

but we only probably used about ten seconds.

Obviously, looking at my face, it wasn't quite such a jolly ride.

Looks as though we're enjoying ourselves.

Of course we weren't. We hated it!

Bit of acting there.

I'm looking as though I'm really having a whale of a time.

In actual fact... You're not having a good time at all.

...I wasn't actually enjoying myself at all.

I think you're probably saying,

"Can someone have a word with Tony and tell him to stop?"

They're going.

We're in the clear.

Argh! Argh! Ow!

As well as creating hilarious characters...

I am here.

...and writing laugh-out-loud punch lines...

Just don't act suspicious, Rodney. Just pretend we're Dutchmen, right?

Ajax!

...John Sullivan was also a master storyteller

who delighted in high concepts and big ambitious plot lines.

He wasn't just a writer who could make you laugh and make you cry,

he also had a very good story, always.

Somewhere, a plotline will come back later.

Whether the audience remember that or not, doesn't matter,

John remembered it.

In America, a sitcom like this, you'd have five, if not ten writers.

- Yes. - Writing. But John, we had one writer.

- One writer. - One. - The plotting is terribly intricate,

and always an unexpected, brilliant ending.

And The Jolly Boys is a prime example of John Sullivan's skills

as a comedy writer, spinning complex webs,

though some of these have, until now, remained hidden.

The episode begins with Del Boy selling dodgy car stereos

down the market...

We've got the Musta FAT in-car radio cassette player as recommended

by Nigel Mansell.

...which, later in the episode, is why the Jolly Boys are left without

a lift back home to Peckham. From the lost archive,

we have discovered some missing pieces from that jigsaw,

never been broadcast before.

- It's not supposed to do that, is it? - Well, no.

Well, it wasn't in the brochure, at least.

Oi, Boycie. Boycie, here, come here a minute.

Yes, what is it?

Look, you're in the motor trade. What do you reckon this is?

Oh, yes. That's what we call in the trade "smouldering."

Yeah, thank you very much, Boycie. Thank you.

Again, looking at these pieces,

if I had the choice, I wouldn't have cut that,

cos it holds.

- I think all the smoke and the smouldering, that holds. - Yeah.

What are we supposed to do about it?

Well, I'd switch it off if I was you, Del.

The main petrol line runs right underneath there.

Blimey!

LOUD BANG Oi! Gordon Bennett.

- We've got to do something about this. - Someone get some water.

Good idea. Water, we need loads of water.

You can't use water. It's an electrical fire.

It's an electrical fire, you wally.

Well, ain't this coach fitted with a fire distinguisher?

Good idea, Trig. Good id...

Harry, is this coach fitted with a fire distinguisher?

Come on, let's get out of it.

Come on!

Abandon ship, come on, get off there.

That is just comedy gold, isn't it? That was lovely.

John Sullivan's sense of plot, visual gags,

I mean, added to by David and Nick,

but John's creation of that scene alone, building up to what,

in a minute, is going to become an explosion, isn't it?

It's, I mean, so brilliantly constructed.

Look, I agree that Del gets a bit out of hand,

but I think it's unfair to say that everything he touches goes wrong.

Cass, you still there?

Our coach has just blown up.

Don't worry, Harry, I won't tell your guvnor about it.

After their coach explodes, thanks to Del's dodgy car stereo,

the jolly boys are left stranded in Margate,

with all routes home closed down.

Oh, I don't believe it! There's only a bloody rail strike.

But the strike didn't happen by chance.

Earlier in the episode, John Sullivan had a scene

which sowed the seeds of a dispute, which has never been seen before,

at the same time creating a character who has,

until now, remained a secret.

They're building that Channel Tunnel rail link

over the back of our house. You should hear the racket they make.

Well, can't you have a word with your brother Kenny?

Ain't he some sort of big noise in the railwaymen's union?

This is ridiculous.

Why, do you think he could have a word with the management?

No, I think he'd probably call an all-out strike.

Really?

Oh, have a day off, will you, Marlene?

How fascinating that none of us had noticed that before.

- What? - That Marlene hada brother called Kenny.

No. No.

And you actually say the line.

"Can't you speak to your brother Kenny?"

What does it say over there? What does Kenny do?

Who is Kenny?

I can't believe that. She's got another brother called Kenny.

Another brother. Kenny. We know more about the Lane family now,

- Kenny, Bronco. - And Petunia. - And Petunia. Oh, my God!

John was perhaps laying that down as a storyline to use later on...

Yeah... of why the railways have all come out on strike,

and it was her brother. Who was leading the strike.

He's a little cracker, ain't he, eh? Does remind me of Boycie.

What, the eyes?

No, no, the wind.

Cos we never actually see that scene,

we don't actually get that lead, you know, we don't see that lead,

we just think it's a train strike, which people then just take,

"OK, fine, it's a train strike."

Another building block. But it was a building block.

Yeah, yeah. Brilliant. Yeah. Yeah, brilliant stuff.

Another storyline developed in The Jolly Boys' Outing

is the reunion of Raquel Turner and Del Boy Trotter.

It IS her!

Stranded on the south coast, the Peckham posse have to stay over

in Margate, where Del spots Raquel performing in a nightclub.

Raquel.

Del!

All right?

John Sullivan first brought Del Boy and Raquel together the year before,

in the 1988 episode Dates, where they met through a dating agency.

Hello.

Look, he nearly nicked one of your mates just now,

so I'd have it away on your toes if I were you, all right?

Is it Derek?

Raquel?

On the surface, Del was extremely confident and chatting up the girls

and all of that, but there was missing something,

- which was genuine love. - Yeah.

I've been married before, and that was a disaster.

And I've had, you know, relationships with men

which have always ended unhappily. Maybe it's been the same for you.

No, blokes don't do a lot for me.

You know what I mean.

She was a bright, intelligent lady,

though she had her own mind and everything,

I think their love was built on something special.

- Definitely. - Yeah. - And I think also, if you look back

to when we first met in that Dates programme... Yes.

...what was so touching about John Sullivan's script, again,

is they were two quite lonely people, weren't they?

My husband was one of those old-fashioned types who thought

there should only be one breadwinner.

Yeah, my dad was like that.

He used to get up at 6:00 every morning

to make sure my mum got to work.

And it was like their relationship was formed

because both of them needed something more than just

being with themselves. They were looking for something else,

and it was like it all happened at the right time, didn't it?

In that episode, their fledgling relationship is kiboshed

when Del Boy books a strippergram for Uncle Albert's birthday,

who turns out to be his new sweetheart Raquel.

Raquel?

Raquel?

Is this the actress you've been telling us so much about, Del Boy?

BOYCIE LAUGHS

That's not Raquel?

This led to one of the most memorable

Only Fools And Horses endings...

Come on, get 'em off!

...when Del Boy mistakes a genuine policewoman

for a colleague of Raquel's.

John Sullivan ended the episode with Derek Trotter getting carted down

to the police station, but how Del avoided prison

always remained a mystery.

Now, in this scene from The Jolly Boys' lost archive,

we finally get our answer.

I didn't mean to let you down, you know.

I mean, I was on my way round to you

when I was, erm, unexpectedly arrested.

- I know, it's all right, you've already explained. - Yeah.

Did you really tear a policewoman's blouse off?

Well, yeah. I didn't know she was a policewoman,

I thought she was another strippergram.

- Did you go to court? - Eh? No, no, no.

No, the desk Sergeant couldn't take my statement for laughing,

so they let me off with a warning.

Why didn't you write to me?

Again, the great talent of John Sullivan.

- Yeah. - He knew that he mustexplain certain things.

- Yeah. - But what was lost wasthe truth of the scene.- Yeah.

- But when you're pushed against time, something has to give. - Yeah.

- You looked wonderful. Nice earrings. - Yes.

Raquel, she was still in the make-up, wasn't she, of the...?

Yeah, of the doves. I think it was the doves, wasn't it?

- The doves, yeah. - And the manplaying The Great

Ramondo was terrified of birds.

- But he hadn't said that, obviously, at the audition. - No. No.

All right, Rodney, I'm just going to go in there,

I just want to ask a few questions, and, you know, like, that's all.

And what happens if you don't like the answers?

Well, that's life, innit, eh? Just...

When Del and Rodney go back to Raquel's flat in Margate

and discover The Great Ramondo is also in situ,

Del gets the wrong end of the stick,

and Ramondo the wrong end of Del.

Excuse me, I'm terribly sorry to bother you,

I just wonder if we could have a little chat,

see if we can come to some sort of an understanding.

BLOW LANDS

That's the way, Del, nice and easy.

Now do you understand what I'm trying to say? Eh?

Why the hell did you do that?

It's all right. It's all right, Raquel. It's all right.

You don't have to be frightened of The Great Ramondo no more.

Del Boy is here.

RODNEY WHISTLES "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY" THEME

You are a woman...

- Thank you. - That's all right.

...and I am a man, right?

And, you know, no man is an island.

Do you understand what I'm getting at?

No.

After Raquel and Del Boy's reunion in The Jolly Boys' Outing...

Thank you... Tessa Peake-Jones officially joined the cast

as Del Boy's better half, Raquel Turner.

Magic!

- Who's Raquel? - C-cam.- Mm?- And mark.

Hoo-hoo! He's a devil.

AUDIENCE LAUGHS

You look like Rachel Reeves.

- God, I look so y... Oh, don't say that! - Yeah. You do.

And she's beautiful.

All right, sweetheart? I didn't hear you creep in.

Oh!

Goodness me! I do remember that.

I love the way Tess seems to kind of...

She's got that smirk and that smile,

but you can see that's the affection the character has for Del.

- Mm-hm. - It kind of... She's sucha perfect fit for the series.

You never know if she's laughing at him

or Raquel's laughing at Del Boy.

One was doing it on purpose cos I could hear the audience,

and I could feel the audience. They were enjoying it.

The looks between them were brilliant, weren't they?

Absolutely lovely. And they... And, of course,

we had bed scenes together, and they... He would be terrible.

- Oh, in that dreadful bed. - Yeah, and he would do terrible things,

she'd go completely hysterical.

But I think she really, you know, genuinely,

their physical relationship on screen

seemed to be completely and utterly natural.

I was going to say something rude, but I won't.

Say what you will, the Queen is on the pill.

Our final scene from the lost archive is a special one,

and has, until now, been the stuff of legend

among Only Fools And Horses fans.

This opening to Class Of '62 does have a somewhat mythical status.

We've known the scripts existed but there's no stills,

they scouted a place, but no-one can remember if it actually happened.

But it did, and we found it in the lost archives.

This whole scene was cut from the opening of the 1991 episode

Class Of '62, and starts with Del and Rodney waiting

to see Raquel audition for a singing spot in a nightclub.

She ain't a lot of cop, is she? What? Cor!

I honestly ain't got a clue, Del.

I don't even know why you've brought me here.

Because, Rodney, you are unemployed,

and what else would you be doing at 10:00 in the morning?

Apart from laying in bed playing tents.

Oh, my God!

I thought it'd be rather nice if you came down here

and gave Raquel a bit of encouragement, know what I mean?

- Encouragement? - Yeah.

Have you heard the song she's chosen for her audition?

It's ridiculous, Del. It's stupid.

I chose that song.

- Oh, did you? - Yeah. - Well, that explains it.

That is a beautiful song.

Well, it's hardly appropriate.

Course it's appropriate. The old numbers are coming back.

Yes, thank you, love. Thank you.

"Raykel" Turner.

Oh, yes!

Oh, that looks could kill.

What, you her agent?

Yes, I am. Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Derek Trotter of Trotter International Star Agency, Peckham.

"You want 'em, we got 'em," that's our motto.

Do you know Shirley Bassey? Well, no, not personally.

Ho-ho! We're like that. We are like that.

OK, "Raykel."Thank you.

♪ Going to the chapel and we're

♪ Gonna get married

♪ Going to the chapel and we're

♪ Gonna get married... ♪

I don't even remember this.

♪ I really love you and we're

♪ Gonna get married

♪ Going to the chapel of love. ♪

Next!

Don't look at him like that!

Wow. I don't remember that. Do you remember that scene?

No. No. Not at all.

I don't remember it, and I think I would've done because I had to sing,

and I so felt I couldn't sing. Was it cut?

Was it cut? It was cut. We didn't see it.

- That was because you couldn't sing. Well, of course it was. - Yes.

Oh, God! All those lovely jokes I had,

all because you... So they were running over

and they thought, "What scene shall we cut? Her singing."

FRONT DOOR CLOSES That was the lost opening

of The Class Of '62,

but this is how the episode actually started.

You all right, unc? Oh. Yeah.

I ain't stopped since you went out.

How's the audition go?

Don't ask. Just don't ask.

He got me up on the stage, singing, "I'm going to the chapel

- "and I'm going to get married." Mm. - I mean, look at me.

Well, I reckon it was your choice of song, Raquel, you see.

I think, next time, you should choose something a bit more modern,

like one of the Madonna numbers, you know?

How about Like A Virgin?

- That's very good. - Yeah.- That gota good laugh at the end there.

It's a very, very typical start of a Fools And Horses,

in the flat. It's so typical beginning, opening,

Uncle Albert having a kip, and waking up,

doing the housework. It's very, very beginning of Fools.

You can't look at this one now and think, "Oh, I don't think that works

"because we've not seen the other bit."Yeah.

It sort of does work OK. It does work.

Especially the Like A Virgin, that's going to work whatever way.

- Exactly. - Because she's got the bump. - Yes. Yeah.

And it's slightly more obvious, the bump, as she comes in the door

than it was when she was on that stage.

Yes. You're right. Yeah, I think that stands alone.

- Yeah. - I wouldn't miss the scenethat we've cut... No.

...though, now I've seen it, of course I would miss it.

I think, for all actors, any television work they do,

when they look back, it's a real marker of time, isn't it?

Of how time has passed.

Yeah. Yes, you're quite right, and that,

the joy of watching Only Fools And Horses,

say you and I, watching those moments,

it is difficult, because we're looking back at a time

- when we were both beautiful, if you like. - Yes.- Yeah.

Maybe we still are, David, and we just don't see it as easily now.

No. I'd play Grandad now.

Sorry, what was your name again? TESSA LAUGHS

You going out?

No, I'm going to bleed the brakes on the van.

We hope that it'll bring a lot of pleasure to the audience.

And it's very nice, actually, to, like you were saying,

to see some of those moments where we're all having a little laugh

between ourselves before we did the scene,

that's very nice to look back on, cos you think,

"Yeah, that's why this programme was special to make,

"the fun we all had."

- Lovely. - Yeah. Oh, lovely.

LAUGHTER

127, take one.

Coming next time -

we have more golden moments from the lost archive...

Del Boy is not for turning.

It's typical Del, he doesn't believe it,

- he's only doing it as bravado. - Yeah.

...shedding new light on Del and Rodney's relationship.

You keep on, Derek, and you'll be sorry.

Sir David meets up with the man responsible

for cutting out all these extra scenes we're finally getting to see

after all these years...

And you used to edit some of my best bits out

- and put them on the floor. - Ofcourse.- Yeah.- Of course.- Thank you.

- That's what we do. - And trod on them, probably.- Oh, trod on them? No!

Nicely spooled onto bits of spare.

Look, just stay out there and see how Raquel's getting on, will you?

...and outtakes which have never been broadcast before

on British television.

Pissing out all over the place here, Rodney.

I don't know what's gone wrong.

Let's have some more gems.

♪ We've got some half-price cracked ice

♪ And miles and miles of carpet tiles

♪ TVs, deep freeze, and David Bowie LPs

♪ Pool games, gold chains, wossnames, and at a push

♪ Some Trevor Francis tracksuits from a mush in Shepherd's Bush

♪ Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush

♪ No income tax, no VAT

♪ No money back, no guarantee

♪ Black or white, rich or broke

♪ We'll cut prices at a stroke... ♪

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