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Only Fools and Horses (1981)

TV Show
Only Fools and Horses
9.0/10on IMDbFirst aired
Del Boy's sales patter can fill a room, but David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst make the quieter bond between the Trotter brothers just as persuasive. John Sullivan lets money worries, pride and family duty feed both the schemes and the emotion. The show's strongest claim is that a huge physical gag and a bruising disappointment can belong to the same believable people. It grows richer as the family and supporting cast develop.

About Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses.... Is a British sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally transmitted on BBC One from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until 2003. In working-class Peckham in south-east London, ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter and his younger half-brother Rodney, explore their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Initially not an immediate hit and receiving little promotion early on, it later achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (originally billed as the series finale) holds the record for the biggest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers. The series bears a significant influence on British culture, contributing several words and phrases to the English language.

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