Only Fools and Horses

A much loved British comedy - Set in Peckham, South London, join Del Boy & Rodney Trotter, Grandad & Uncle Albert in their hilarious escapades & business ventures - all in the name of becoming rich. Whether it's legal, illegal or just downright silly, Trotters Independent Traders PLC will attempt make a profit out of anything that comes their way.

• Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Series 5 [1986] | DVD | (30/09/2002 from £8.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (132.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  First broadcast in the autumn of 1986, the fifth series of Only Fools and Horses consists of half-a-dozen half-hour episodes that are absolutely vintage fare. Indeed, after this series, the BBC gave writer John Sullivan freedom to extend his writing to full feature-length episodes. This series, meanwhile, is a masterclass in characterisation, interplay and in delivering the comedic sucker punch that raises the belly laugh when you least expect it. Included here are "From Prussia With Love", in which Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and Del (David Jason) take in a heavily pregnant German au pair in distress for the night. Uncle Albert assures them he can talk German and addresses her thus: "Vot izz your name?". "The Miracle of Peckham" is especially well-worked, with a plotline involving missing lead from the church roof and a "weeping statue" which attracts the world’s media. "The Longest Night" sees Del and Rodney held hostage in a supermarket by a gun-toting robber. Never has Del delivered the words "You plonker!" with such feeling as when Rodney makes a grab for the sleeping robber’s cigarettes rather than his gun. "Tea for Three" sees Del sabotage Rodney’s chances with Trigger’s niece, Lisa; though it makes no sense here, prepare to guffaw when Trigger says, "My Gran had one with a squeaky wheel". "Video Nasty" sees Mickey Pierce use Rodney’s local council community film project as a means of making a cheap soft porn movie, while the concluding, characteristically poignant episode sees Del given the chance of a new life in Australia. With this series, a sitcom that once seemed like a poor Minder imitation came of age. On the DVD: Only Fools and Horses, Series 5 is presented in 4:3 picture ratio and Dolby Digital stereo. There are no extra features.--David Stubbs

• Only Fools And Horses - Heroes And Villains [1996] | DVD | (09/02/2004 from £3.21   |  Saving you £12.78 (398.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Trotters Independent Traders Company (TIT Co.) remains commercially unviable: Del is stuck with 125 unpredictable Latvian radio alarms and a boxful of baseball caps ""that even East 17 fans wouldn't wear"" and the council have rejected his home improvement grant application!

• Only Fools And Horses - Mother Nature's Son [1992] | DVD | (24/05/2004 from £11.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (37.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When Del finds out just how much bottles of mineral water sell for he decides to ""discover"" his own spring on Grandad's old allotment. It's not long before business is booming in Peckham Spring Water and the Trotters have money rolling in. But how long will it be before anyone realises that it's only really tap water? Not long... there's a chemical leak in the local reservoir. Blimey!

• Only Fools and Horses - The Frog's Legacy [1987] | DVD | (20/12/2000 from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Despite Rodders undertaking a dead impressive new job life for the trotters is far from Kushti. Del's state-of-the-ark computers are going down about as well as bacon sandwiches at a bar mitzvah while at the market Uncle Albert's unconvincing performances of lumbago recovery have left the flat knee-deep in x-ray massage gizmos. Still things can only get better... At Trigger's niece's nuptials (""only a hyphen or two away from a society wedding"") they encounter an old friend of t

• Complete Only Fools And Horses | DVD | (16/10/2006 from £94.00   |  Saving you £105.99 (112.76%)   |  RRP £199.99

  This mammoth box set is a dream come true for any fan of Trotter's Independent Traders PLC. Featuring all the episodes from series 1-7 and the following specials: 1. The Story Of Only Fools And Horses 2. Time On Our Hands 3. Sleepless In Peckham 4. Dates 5. Fatal Extraction 6. Frog's Legacy 7. Heroes & Villains 8. Modern Men 9. If They Could See Us Now 10. Jolly Boy's Outing 11. Miami Twice 12. Mother Nature's Son 13. Rodney Come Home 14. Royal Flush 15. To Hull & Back 16. Strangers On The Shore

• Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Series 2 [1982] | DVD | (29/03/2001 from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Although at first glance a series about a family of lovable spivs who get into endless scrapes as they duck and dive their way through life must have sounded like a complete non-starter, but John Sullivan's quickfire scripts for Only Fools and Horses and the spot-on performances by Jason (Del), Lyndhurst (Rodney) and Pierce (Grandad) combine to perfection in this beautifully crafted classic comedy.As there's no padding at all in OFAH it's almost essential to own it in recorded form just to pick up on all the brilliant detail, so having an entire eight-episode series in a single package is even better. This second series both begins and ends with complications involving women, opening with Rodney's dangerous liaison with a policewoman and closing with Del's infatuation with Heather, who has ambitions as an actress. Along the way, there's a bit of trouble with the Spanish police, some North Korean (sic) porcelain, a rather eventful painting job in a Chinese restaurant and generally more laughs than you can shake a Pringle sweater at. On the DVD: the DVD comes in at a whopping 231 minutes--the whole series on one disc, which is handy--and has an episode/scene index. --Roger Thomas

• Only Fools And Horses - Fatal Extraction [1993] | DVD | (12/07/2004 from £6.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (146.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  No Income Tax! No VAT! - and certainly no guarantee of anything but great sales AGAIN. His enthusiasm for fatherhood and domesticity having palled Del is determined to escape from the pipe-and-slippers atmosphere of Nelson Mandela House and put in some serious drinking time. But will Raquel let him? It's left to Rodney who's suffering his own problems with Cassandra's insistence that they start a family to try and talk sense into his brother. This special feature length Christm

• Only Fools And Horses - Christmas Specials | DVD | (15/11/2004 from £13.08   |  Saving you £-0.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.82

  Bid 'bonjour' to Britain's favourite sitcom with this 'triffic' box set of Christmas specials. Featuring the last three Christmas specials. You'd be a 'plonker' to miss it! If They Could See Us Now: As bankruptcy looms they're forced to decamp to the old flat in Nelson Mandela Towers and return to their wheeler-dealer ways of old. Strangers On The Shore: Del and Rodney take a trip to France to attend their late uncle Albert's military reunion and end up harbouring

• Only Fools And Horses - Miami Twice [1991] | DVD | (19/05/2003 from £6.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (130.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The 1991 Christmas Special of the best-loved UK sitcom of its time, Only Fools and Horses: Miami Twice is a two-parter which takes Del Boy and Rodney on a transatlantic jaunt that turns out to be more than the jolly boys' excursion they'd bargained for. The action begins in Peckham, with the christening of Del's recently born child Damien. Never without an eye for the main chance, Del takes the vicar aside and outlines a scheme to save "vicar hours" and get a "nicker and a bit ahead" by "pre-blessing" lorry loads of Romanian wine he's arranged to be imported, selling them on to other clergymen. Rodney, meanwhile, has received a pensions fund rebate and Del unscrupulously engineers it so that the pair of them jet off to Miami where he looks forward to showing off his leopardskin trunks. The first part of Miami Twice is classic stuff, featuring the familiar ensemble with some vintage idiocy from Trigger and some hilarious farce involving a baby intercom. The second part, however, set in America, is a let-down, involving as it does a rather lame and far-fetched plot in which Del turns out to be the double of a local Don (an excuse for David Jason to deliver a hackneyed Godfather impersonation). A cameo from Richard Branson feels like product placement and generally the Trotters feel all at sea when off their home turf. A Christmas audience, stuffed with pudding, would have indulged this over-rich fare but there's no reason to come back for seconds. Still, it's worth it for the first 50 minutes. On the DVD: Only Fools and Horses: Miami Twice has no special features on DVD but holds up well visually, albeit unable to rid the original of blights such as a distracting burst of studio light in the first part. --David Stubbs

• Only Fools And Horses - Rodney Come Home [1990] | DVD | (14/02/2005 from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The classic feature length episode originally transmitted on Christmas Day 1990. When Cassandra places more interest in the bank's badminton club than in her husband's dietary distress Rodney decides to return to the Trotter nest. But just as Del's romantic room-sharing plans begin to bear fruit disaster strikes: Rodney succeeds in asking the bird from the exhaust centre to the pictures! Del Boy decides that Cassandra must be told the truth; after all it's the least a loving brot

• Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Series 1 [1981] | DVD | (20/11/2000 from £9.35   |  Saving you £10.64 (113.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Regularly touted as one of the best British sitcoms ever, Only Fools and Horses kicked off in 1981 when mobile phones were the size of bricks and wine bars were the ultimate places to hang out in. The formula was simple enough: Cockney wideboy Derek Trotter (brilliantly played by David Jason) dreams of better things for himself while sharing a cramped council flat in the nicely named Peckham tower block Nelson Mandela House with his unworldly brother Rodney and his sweet but doddery old granddad. Trouble is, Del's endless money-making schemes (such as his attempt to flog a consignment of one-legged turkeys, or his plan to sell bottled tap water) inevitably backfire, like the knackered old Robin Reliant van he uses to cart around all this faulty gear. Created by John Sullivan, who also sings the very catchy theme tune, Only Fools and Horses is a wonderful mix of dodgy but loveable characters (such as Del Boy's dimwit friend Trigger), knockabout slapstick (no-one falls down with as much comedic grace as Jason) and brilliantly crafted dialogue. Sadly, Leonard Pierce who played Granddad died in 1983; but his armchair in the Trotter household was filled in 1985 by Buster Merryfield as Uncle Albert (an old merchant seaman who bores Del and Rodney with tales of his war days). The show ran to seven series and ended with characteristic warmth in 1991, when Del Boy became a father; but the Trotters made occasional returns to the small screens with six hugely popular one-off Christmas specials. As Del Boy himself might say: "Lovely jubbly". --Edward Lawrenson

• Only Fools And Horses - A Royal Flush [1986] | DVD | (09/05/2005 from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Trotters Independent Trading Company comes face to face with the creme-de-la-menthe of British nobility...Del decides a visit to the opera is the perfect opportunity for Rodders to impress his new 'friend' the daughter of the Duke of Maylebury. However munching a packet of crisps through the duet and whistling along to the aria is more Peckham Astoria than Covent Garden. When Rodney is then invited on a shooting weekend he hardly needs Del to arrive enter the clay pig

• Only Fools And Horses - 1996 Christmas Trilogy | DVD | (09/02/2004 from £13.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Three classic Christmas adventures with the Trotters! Heroes And Villains: Trotters Independent Traders Company (TIT Co.) remains commercially unviable: Del is stuck with 125 unpredictable Latvian radio alarms and a boxful of baseball caps ""that even East 17 fans wouldn't wear"" and the council have rejected his home improvement grant application! Modern Men: Little Damien is growing up fast but little else has changed in Mandela Towers as Del Boy Rodders and Uncl

• Only Fools And Horses - The Complete Series 1 To 7 | DVD | (15/11/2004 from £38.38   |  Saving you £51.61 (134.47%)   |  RRP £89.99

  Contains series 1-7 in their entirety! Series 1: 1. Big Brother 2. Go West Young Man 3. Cash And Curry 4. The Second Time Around 5. A Slow Bus To Chingford 6. The Russians Are Coming 7. Christmas Crackers Series 2: 1. The Long Legs Of The Law 2. Ashes To Ashes 3. A Losing Streak 4. No Greater Love 5. The Yellow Peril 6. It Never Rains 7. A Touch Of Glass 8. DIamonds Are For Heather Series3: 1. Homesick 2. Healthy Competition 3. Friday The 14th 4. Yesterda

• Only Fools and Horses - Complete Series 7 [1987] | DVD | (06/09/2004 from £6.49   |  Saving you £14.76 (282.22%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seventh heaven for fans of Only Fools And Horses with this complete series now on DVD! Episodes comprise: 1. The Sky's The Limit 2. The Chance Of A Lunchtime 3. Stage Fright 4. The Class Of '62 5. He Ain't Heavy He's My Uncle 6. Three Men A Woman And A Baby

• Only Fools And Horses - Sleepless In Peckham | DVD | (04/10/2004 from £8.25   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Del, Rodney and Boycie are in jail in France for kidnapping. The stowaway in their van whom they assumed was an illegal immigrant turned out to be an important businessman who had been trapped in the back. To add to the Trotters' problems, they about to be kicked out of Nelson Mandela House, as they still owe Inland Revenue and have no hope of paying their debt in time. Then Cassandra goes into labour, and Rodney discovers that his father is not who he thought he was.

• Only Fools And Horses - The Jolly Boys Outing [1989] | DVD | (13/11/2000 from £8.35   |  Saving you £7.64 (91.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The unforgettable special feature length Christmas cracker from 1989 in which Del meets Raquel again and Rodney jumps to disastrous conclusions with Cassandra. It's a typically tearaway Trotter's treat - an extra large helping of luvvly jubbly... Del is organising the annual beano to Margate the traditional Jolly Boys' Outing. But Rodney and Cassandra have just celebrated their first wedding anniversary and she's worried about him going out with the boys - especially as she's ang

• Only Fools And Horses - Dates [1988] | DVD | (06/05/2002 from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's been a good month for Trotter's Independent Trading Company. The unprecedented demand for ladies razors has meant Del and Rodney can escape the daily struggle for a while and enjoy life's rewards. Uncle Albert's unmissable hints about his forthcoming birthday means there's a celebration on the cards and the new computer dating agency means romance is in the air. While Rodney's afternoon cruise in the three - wheeler with Nervous Neris proves memorable for all the wrong reason

• Only Fools And Horses - To Hull And Back [1985] | DVD | (12/11/2001 from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A feature length episode of John Sullivan's popular comedy first broadcast as a Christmas special in 1985. Del and Rodney travel to Amsterdam to collect some diamonds on behalf of Boycie and Abdul little knowing that old adversary Chief Inspector Slater is hot on their trail. To make matters worse Uncle Albert is navigating their course from Hull to Holland!

• Only Fools And Horses - Time On Our Hands [1996] | DVD | (09/02/2004 from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The third episode in the Only Fools and Horses Christmas Trilogy by John Sullivan It seemed the usual Trotter farce: Raquel's parents visiting for dinner Rodney doing a stock take (artifical leg Showaddywaddy LPs)... Then Raquel's antique dealing father makes a discovery in the lock up. Before you can say ""this time next year Rodders ..."" our heroes are in Sotheby's about to realise their dreams and finally become - millionaires!!