Category: Only Fools And Horses
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Waterfront Beat (30 Years Ago And All That)
I know you’re here because it’s the 30th anniversary of the city of Tiraspol briefly claiming its indepedence from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, but that will have to wait for another time. As I do sometimes, I had a look through the BBC TV listings for this day 30 years ago, and found it…
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5 Best Comedy Moments Ever
I’m often (never) asked to name my seven most favourite comedy moments ever. Sure, I (never) say, if you want to reduce and decontextualise scenes that are often informed by everything preceding them, and then proscribe some sort of aribtrary ranking system on to totally unconnected things. Yes, please, they reply (not ever happened). So,…
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Ha Ha Halloween: Only Ghouls And Horses
Rare for a UK sitcom to have a Halloween special, though less rare back in the day for sitcoms to be on during Halloween. Here’s an episode of Only Fools And Horses which aired on the 28th October 1982 which has an air of the occult about it. It’s called Ashes To Ashes. Apparently Elizabeth…
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TVs, Deep Freeze And David Bowie LPs
I wonder why they chose Buster Merryfield for this advert. I know the show was huge around then, but it still doesn’t seem like a good fit. This seems a bit more like it. This one’s clearly not using John Challis as Boycie though. While this one is. And this is the most Boycie advert…
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Half Priced Cracked Ice
I can’t think of any examples of Nicholas Lyndhurst channelling Rodney for adverts, but he did some weird ones for WH Smith in the 90s. And some dull ones for British Gas. Although I still like that thumb effect at the end. Then there’s this one. And one for a company no-one remembers. More than…
