Category: Only Fools And Horses
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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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Christmas Traditions
What’s your favourite Christmas tradition? Yes, I know the pertinent episode aired on 8th January.
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The Christmas Radio Times In Christmas Specials
There’s a moment in the first 2point4 Children Christmas Special, from 1992, when Bill and Ben are bickering about recording things for later. Bill mentions that last year Ben meant to record Batman, but got it wrong, and got an hour of blank screen instead. What’s nice about this moment is that Batman did indeed…
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That’s Not The Magnum Theme
The theme tune for Magnum, P.I. is, as the saying goes, a banger. But it was not always thus. For a few episodes at the start of the first season, this was the theme they used. And here’s the pallette cleanser. There must be several examples of shows using different theme tunes, and the two…
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Stay Inside
If you’re not familiar with the term ‘bottle episode’, you will certainly understand the sentiment. This is when a show spends a whole episode stuck in one place. Sometimes they’re made to save money that can be spent on bigger budget episodes. Seinfeld’s more famous one is The Chinese Restaurant. What makes this episode so…
