Only Fools and Horses - Big Brother

The first ever episode of Only Fools and Horses is a far cry from the later disaster trilogy, an amazing piece of comedy that manages to ensure the viewer becomes enamored with the characters in this excellent sitcom by introducing them almost without you noticing. The cheeky use of funny vocabulary, great plotline, superb acting and the onscreen chemistry between all the characters is what sets this show apart and its extremely evident as early on as the first episode. It may be our first glimpse of The Trotters but it seems like them and their friends have genuinely been together for years which is what makes the show so real. They use the formula of Del's ...  Read the complete review

First shown on the 8th of September 1981 at 8.30pm on BBC1, the very first episode of ‘Only Fools And Horses,’ appeared unknowingly onto our screens. From the glamour of Morecambe and Wise and even the theatrical perfection of’Ain’t ‘Arf Hot Mum,’ we found our eyes being filled with all the glitz of a council flat in Peckham. How little we knew that this squalor of unemployment and deceit, several minutes from the ground, in a block referred to as ’Nelson Mandela House,’ would be set in stone in out hearts for all eternity. It was, however successful we know if it today, a long, up hill struggle for it’s writer, John Sullivan through those early years. The ...  Read the complete review