Only Fools and Horses
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | John Sullivan |
| Written by | John Sullivan |
| Directed by | Martin Shardlow (1981) Bernard Thompson (1981) Ray Butt (1982–1983, 1985–1987) Susan Belbin (1985) Mandie Fletcher (1986) Tony Dow (1988–2003, 2014) |
| Starring |
David Jason Nicholas Lyndhurst Lennard Pearce (1981–1984) Buster Merryfield (1985–1996) |
| Theme music composer |
Ronnie Hazlehurst (1981) John Sullivan (1981–2003, 2014) |
| Opening theme | "Only Fools and Horses" |
| Ending theme | "Hooky Street" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 7 (+16 specials) |
| No. of episodes | 64 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Ray Butt (1981–1987) Bernard Thompson (1981) Gareth Gwenlan (1988–1993, 1996, 2001–2003) John Sullivan (1991–2003) |
| Location(s) |
Peckham, London, England; (main setting) Bristol, England; (Nelson Mandela House and Market setting) Weston-super-Mare, England (specials only) Malmesbury, Wiltshire |
| Running time |
Regular episodes Series 1–5: 30 minutes per episode Series 6 & 7: 50 minutes per episode Christmas specials 35–95 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC |
| Distributor |
BBC Worldwide 2Entertain Channel 4 Sales (Due to owning UKTV's advertising rights) |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 576i (4:3 SDTV) (1981–1996) 576i (16:9 SDTV) (2001–2003) 1080i (16:9 HDTV) (2014) |
| Original release | 8 September 1981 - 3 February 1991 Specials: 25 December 1985 - 25 December 2003 Sport Relief special: 21 March 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by |
The Green Green Grass (2005–2009) Rock & Chips (2010–2011) |
Only Fools and Horses is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials until its end in 2003. Episodes are regularly repeated on UKTV comedy channel Gold and occasionally repeated on BBC One.
Set in Peckham in south-east London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter, Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter, and Lennard Pearce as their elderly Grandad. After Pearce's death in 1984, his character was replaced by Del and Rodney's Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) who first appeared in February 1985. Backed by a strong supporting cast, the series follows the Trotters' highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich.
The show achieved consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode "Time on Our Hands" (the last episode to feature Uncle Albert) holds the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode, attracting 24.3 million viewers (over a third of the population). Critically and popularly acclaimed, the series received numerous awards, including recognition from BAFTA, the National Television Awards and the Royal Television Society, as well as winning individual accolades for both Sullivan and Jason. It was voted Britain's Best Sitcom in a 2004 BBC poll.
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