Category: British
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Only Yules And Horses (Part Three)
As Del and Rodney trotted into the 1990s, they were getting more and more press coverage through the year, even though the new series wouldn’t air until very nearly 1991. And there would of course be a big Christmas special too. So it’s fair to say that anticipation was growing. So, given all this attention,…
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Only Yules And Horses (Part Two)
Yesterday we looked at the Only Fools And Horses Christmas specials that aired in the first half of the 1980s, and saw that they received a minimal amount of press coverage. Between 1986 and 1989, the show took a break, with no new series – but there were three festive episodes in that time. The…
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Only Yules And Horses (Part One)
I know that the received wisdom is that the first series of Only Fools And Horses was underwhelming from a ratings perpective (even if it’s first episode was the ninth most-watched show on BBC One that week), but it does bear out that it didn’t get much press coverage (as we saw yesterday). That didn’t…
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Only Clips And Horses
I thought we’d all enjoy looking at a couple of the very earliest newspaper mentions of Only Fools And Horses. So let’s start with this one, from the Acton Gazette on the 28th May 1981, which features a behind the scenes photo of the location shoot. The estate scenes would be filmed in Bristol for…
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Insert Rentaghost Pun Here
Anyone who ever watched it will have a favourite, or familiar, era of Rentaghost, the long running BBC children’s sitcom of the 1970s and 80s. It was one of those shows that stated its premise in the haunting (geddit?) theme tune. The series ran for 58 episodes over nine series, from 1976 to 1984. It…
