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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cardiff1984" data-source="post: 176318" data-attributes="member: 217">2. Only Fools And Horses. 1981 - 2003 <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi0uanm7PrjAhVH1hoKHUB7AqQQjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F504473595729861346%2F&psig=AOvVaw11Q_Lqy4G_E6oDz5De5bhc&ust=1565613996080724" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8e/04/14/8e0414fa25a2db8e0809a74178f9d665.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>DURATION OF SERIES: 1981 -2003NO. SEASONS: 7. NO.EPISODES: 64 (Including Christmas Specials). "Lovely Jubbly.""What a forty two carrot plonker you really are.""You dip stick, Rodney.""This time next year, we'll be millionaires."    - Del Trotter. Possibly one of the greatest British comedies ever made. It follows the exploits of Hooky Peckham Market Trader, Derek (Del) Trotter (David Jason and his younger brother Rodney(Nicholas Lyndhurst), who both live in a council estate tower block, known as Nelson Mandela House. Living with them, is there Grandad (Leonard Pearce) and later on in the series, their uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield). They also own a three wheel robin reliant, which is hardly what you call reliable and not road worthy, considering the road tax has been in the post for god knows how long. The story of OFAH was written by John Sullivan and some of the plots he chose were taken from experience and he turned the show into a Gem and has made Only Fools an award winning classic. The combination of David Jason Nick Lyndhurst portraying two brothers was so unique, you'd could not foresee anyone else playing their roles, including the supporting cast with their roles also. Each episode sees the Trotters, facing the challenges of everyday struggles by dreaming of a future, that doesn't seem to come.Del is the biggest dreamer, hoping that his selling of little quality merchandise and the exploitation of other people's livelihoods, will be the encouragement his business credentials and personal welfare for his family need and he believes that all this could make them millionaires the following year - which Del keeps saying every year. It's his relationship with his younger brother, which can be testing at times, as Del had raised Rodney since their mother, Joan passed away and Del reminds Rodney so often of what their mother said to him on her death bed and it sometimes feels like manipulation from Rodney's point of view, as he feels controlled at times by his elder sibling and is fed up of selling crap down a London market, from a suitcase. However, Rodney on his own would not survive five minutes without the guidance of Del, as he's only got two GSCE's and a suspended sentence after being caught smoking a joint with a Thai hooker. Their Grandfather is the father of Del's runway Dad, whilst Rodney's biological criminal father, died sitting on a detonator back in the sixties. Grandad does not do much, just sits and watches telly - sometimes struggles to find a signal via a microwave oven. Later, on when Grandad passes away (Pearce passed away prior to series 4), Uncle Albert becomes the new resident at the Trotters household and his only helpful at times during crisis advise mostly stems from 'During the war," of which drives the trotters round the bend.Other supporting characters are Boycie (John Challis), a snobbish car salesman, who looks down on those with a penny less than him as a Pezzente.Trigger ( Roger Lloyd Pack), is as thick as his twenty year old broom, which has had seventeen new heads and fourteen new handles put on it. And to Trigger, Rodney has an identity crisis, when it comes to naming him. Rodney is Dave in Triggers eyes.Denzil (Paul Barber), a long distance lorry driving, who can't drive far enough, without Del trying to make him an offer, he would desperately try to refuse, but then give in.Mike (Kenneth Macdonald) introduced in series 3 as the new landlord of the local pub, 'The Nags Head', is so naïve when it comes to Del promising he will pay the slates he still owes after several years.When it comes to women, Del subtle approach seems rather suave and appealing to a point. However, Rodney's subtle approach either gets him accused of being a rapist by a local nut, or a slap across the face, trying to replicate his brothers approach. Del over the years has had more wedding engagements, than Trigger has had success trying to find his way out of a telephone box.By series 6, Rodney would find his soul mate in Cassandra (. Actually it is Cassandra who finds Rodney as they have their coats mixed up. The source to that discovery is Del writing Rodney's name in his jacket. Still, it didn't stop Miss Parry from marrying Rodney Charlton Trotter.Del would meet the love of his life on a train platform in stage actress Raquel Turner, (Tessa Peak Jones), who suggests that their meet is similar to that of what happens in the movie 'Brief Encounters.' To Del, he thinks she means the movie which stars Richard Dreyfuss which involves UFO's.There would be extra additions to the Trotter family, firstly introducing Damien Derek Trotter, (Raquel and Del's son) who his Uncle Rodney sees as a falling angel. Then in the final episode, Rodney's daughter would be born as Joan Mavis Trotter.<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiB2LD1q_vjAhVSOhoKHbBUDY4QjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpdaddy232%2Fonly-fools-and-horses%2F&psig=AOvVaw0FaS3dL5EWD_oyvSuoitxY&ust=1565630941894398" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/236x/ba/26/19/ba2619018d39abc0af5b23d2af0ac76e--only-fools-and-horses-horse-photos.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Leonard Pearce aka Grandad Trotter (series 1-3)<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwim3O6TrPvjAhVFVhoKHb2uCL4QjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F541276448944981154%2F&psig=AOvVaw2xOGvHfR6vrDfrFj4b_AIg&ust=1565631007467991" target="_blank"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/1e/02/5e1e02d9817dad0eb20a7f908b27586b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert TrotterNO.2 ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES TO BE CONTINUED >>>>></blockquote>

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