Category: Comedy
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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…
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The Other Mel Smith Double Act
It’s easy to forget that Mel Smith wasn’t always staring into the face of Griff Rhys Jones, that he was on Not The Nine O’Clock News first, and that he was actually in a double act with someone else. Mel Smith and Bob Goody met in the mid-70s, and put on a play together at…
