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This is Only Fools And Horses as you've never seen it before.

Unseen, take two.

After trawling through hundreds of film reels,

studio rushes and videotapes,

we have uncovered a treasure trove

of previously unseen comedy gold.

We appear to have a tiny problem.

Rodney's been nicked.

HE LAUGHS

We've unearthed a wealth of material

which even the cast and crew have never seen before...

Bit of fluff? That's my daughter you're talking about.

No offence meant, Alan. Just having a laugh.

HE CACKLES

Such a horrible character, Boycie.

- He is foul. - He was vile. - But the public loved that.

...as well as dozens of scenes which reveal so much more

about the Trotter family...

I don't even remember this.

...and out-takes which have been lying untouched in the vaults for decades.

That's a find, my goodness.

I think this whole new section of material they've never seen before,

I mean, I think they're going to be fascinated.

I think so too.

Lovely jubbly!

We're off and running. Heh!

BOTH:Da-na-na-na-na-na...

At the heart of Only Fools And Horses are two brothers.

I look like a wand!

Rodney, a simple, caring type...

- No! - What?- Up!

...and his older brother, Derek.

In your own time, my son.

...who is slightly more...

...extrovert.

I wear a trendy trench coat, Gordon Gekko braces.

You wear a lumberjack's coat and Gordon Bennett boots.

But while we thought we knew everything about the Trotters,

our recent discovery of lost archive has been a revelation

in how the brothers saw the world.

And our first piece here of never-before-seen treasure

shows Rodney in full-on environmentalist mode,

giving it large about the rainforests.

It's only a bunch of trees, Dave.

There must be thousands of trees in the world.

It's not just a bunch of trees, Trig,

it is the Brazilian rainforest, the lungs of the world.

And they are destroying it at the rate of 25 acres a day.

Where is the Brazilian rainforest?

It's on the outskirts of Luton.

Where do you think it is, Trig?! It's in Brazil.

- Yeah, but what part of Brazil? - Eh?

Well, it's...

Well, it's the Amazon Delta, right?

And then, sort of... further in.

They were all learning to change their outlook on life

and obviously a whole bunch of working-class boys in Peckham

were taking a little bit longer to discover the problems of Brazil.

The world. But Rodney was taking that on his shoulders.

- He had a GCSE in art. - In art, yes!

I know that Rodney's a caring, sympathetic sort of lad,

- but I just wish sometimes he'd shut his mouth. - Yeah.

John Sullivan did use Rodney's character

- to be the sound of reason. - Yes. - Of intelligence.

I mean, destroying it at the rate of 25 acres a day -

can you imagine how the natives who live there must feel?

Yeah. And what about local people who own dogs?

Yeah, I hadn't thought of that.

He's nearly corpsing!

- God, he was a good actor, Roger Lloyd Pack. - So good!

What we've got to do, as citizens of...

Seen this postcard? It's from Boycie and Marlene, arrived this morning.

Is that their hotel? Yeah, it's the one in Washington.

ALBERT:I've been there.

You people kill me.

I'm going on about the total destruction of the planet

and all you're interested in is some stupid hotel in America.

Yeah, but it's a nice hotel, innit?

RODNEY:Yes, Trig.

Rodney was a boy with a big heart,

and he was interested in what was going on.

Yes, I know, you're now making him very intelligent

and Del Boy wasn't, and I think that's rather a shame.

I think that's going too far.

Rodney was prepared to think outside the box and not just about

what the next money-making scheme was going to be.

- You have to accept this. - All right.

Del, on the other hand, has slightly more... old-fashioned opinions.

Aren't you going to have a bet?

And in this piece of previously unseen footage,

we hear his views on how a couple can maintain domestic harmony.

When Raquel met me, she knew I was a high-flyer.

She liked to live life in the fast lane then, didn't she, eh?

- Did she? - Yeah. - Well, we was out every night,

hitting all the high spots of Deptford. And Peckham.

Of course, now she's had a chavi,

she wants to settle down, and she expects me to be with her.

It's typical Del. He doesn't believe it,

he's only doing it as bravado,

show his younger brother how to,

you know, be butch, which is a lot of old cobblers.

Del Boy is not for turning.

What's that supposed to mean? Marriage ain't changed me.

Cor, it has, Rodney.

I've seen you and that Cassandra.

She's into this conservation malarkey and so is Rodney as well.

I've seen you round the pubs and in the market,

going, "Oh, collection for the rain forest!"

So I happen to be concerned about

what's happening to my planet.

I've always been interested in nature.

Yeah, but in the past, the only nature you were interested in

is the sort of nature a tom cat's interested in.

Oh, God!

You've changed, Rodders, I've noticed it.

I have not changed, Del.

When I make my mind up about something, nothing can alter it.

140 pieces, sir, thank you.

We'll stick with evens, shall we?

I'm going to go and get some chips.

HE CHUCKLES Lovely jubbly!

It was Rodney's love of the planet and all things organic

which John Sullivan used as a device

for one of Del's most outrageous get-rich-quick schemes.

The brothers visit a health-food shop run by Rodney's mate Miles

and it's clear from this never-before-seen moment

who Del blames for Rodney's middle-class aspirations.

What's the point of getting married

and then doing the bloody shopping yourself?!

- No wonder you've got problems. - Oi.

You keep your nose out of my business, all right?

All right, all right.

I'll tell you something - I bet I know what Cassandra's thinking

when you two are tucked up under the duvet at night.

- Yeah? - Yeah.

I bet she's thinking,

"I wonder how many tangerines Rodney can get for a pound."

You keep on, Derek, and you'll be sorry.

Oh, that is a lovely... That's brilliant.

- That should've been in the episode, that's a lovely little bit. - So nice.

- Mother Nature's son, absolutely brilliant. - And again, Rodney,

the conscience of Peckham, the modern man.

Just so alien to Del Boy, really, and his post-war London attitude.

You seen the price of these spuds?!

Well, you pay the extra cos they're organic.

I tell you, there's no E120 additives in these foods.

E120s.

What you talking about, E120s?

Before you met Cassandra, you thought an E120 was a bus.

He sets up the fact that Rodney and Cassandra

are now eating organic and healthy,

and he suddenly plants the idea to, you know, to Del,

"Allotment, might have a look at that."Yeah.

"Put in a few Brussels sprouts, make some money",

but, of course, these plans go slightly bigger...

Yes... than that at the end.

What's this? Wait a minute, this is water, this is, innit?

Water at 65p a bottle?!

Will you mind your own business?

Cassandra and I happen to like this water.

Oh, well, maybe she'll like this water even more, look.

This one's only 72p a bottle!

Cor, is this what people are spending their money on nowadays?

Yeah. It's one of the few remaining growth industries.

Is it? Is it really?

They're terribly clever scripts.

There's always a beginning, a middle, an end,

there's always a couple of storylines going through

and the plots were quite intricate, terribly clever

and, of course, the most important thing, actually, about the show.

In a masterful, layered storyline,

John Sullivan had Del inherit Grandad's allotment,

which would later become the source for his Peckham Spring franchise.

HE SNIFFS Oh, dear, what is that?!

I don't know, but it could be toxic.

Yeah. Could be bloody poisonous an' all.

And from the lost archive, for the very first time,

we get to see the inside of Grandad's shed.

Ohh... CAT MIAOWS

Cor. Dirty, filthy, rotten...

And it's not pretty.

Rodney?

I tell you what, Albert and I'll get the gear out the van,

- you, er, you come and clear out the shed. All right? - Righto.

HE CHUCKLES

Del Boy! Dave!

Del soon realises the grimy shed

is not the only toxic element on the allotment,

leading to this classic scene,

which can now be seen in full

after the discovery of extra footage from the lost archive.

What are these things? They're barrels.

Yeah, I can see they're barrels! But what's in 'em?

It's nothing to worry about.

It's just, you know, some gunge.

Gunge? What sort of gunge?

What do you mean, "What sort of gunge?" Gunge is gunge, innit?

No, it isn't. There's your harmless gunge, the sort you give to kids

at Christmas and they make models out of.

Then there's your killer gunge, you know?

One sniff and it's down the Co-op collecting your divvies.

This is not killer gunge.

What sort of bloke do you take me for?

- This is the one where he ends up in the diving suit! - Yeah.

Denzil! Now, believe me, it's harmless,

and to prove it, I'm going to help you carry it.

I can't say fairer than that, can I?

But it doesn't smell harmless!

Well, nor does my Uncle Albert, but he wouldn't hurt a fly.

Look, trust me, will ya?

Look, are you going to give us a hand

and get these barrels on the van or what?

Yes, all right, just coming!

Here we go.

MUFFLED:Lovely jubbly!

"Lovely jubbly!"

Take one.

Inspired by Miles's supermarket,

in this never-seen-before clip,

Del tries to convince Rodney he's gone all organic.

I suddenly turned green, Rodney.

I realised that what we've got here was more than just an allotment.

It was God's good earth in which I could grow vegetables and...

...things.

These rough hands are going to feed my woman and my child, Rodney.

I'm a born-again gardener.

Oh, genius. That was bliss, wasn't it?

That was lovely. What writing.

It's a bit like Laurel and Hardy,

which was the knowing fool

and the unknowing fool.

Rodney, he's the Stan Laurel of the outfit, really... Yes, yes.

...and Del Boy is the Oliver Hardy.

Del realises growing organic vegetables

is far too time-consuming,

so bottles up from the tap Peckham Spring Water,

unaware it's contaminated by the toxic gunge from his allotment.

In the last two weeks, Peckham Spring

has become Miles's biggest seller.

He's doubled his order twice.

Look, just stay out there and see how Raquel's getting on, will ya?

Pissing out all over the place here, Rodney.

I don't know what's gone wrong!

Oh, this is an outtake!

Del, these dolls ain't called Barbie or Sindy.

These dolls are called Lusty Linda and Erotic Estelle.

As John Sullivan's scripts were packed

with complex plots and killer jokes...

Bloody hell.

What have we got ourselves into here?

...hysterical laughter from the studio audience

would often mean the episodes ran over.

POP!

- AUDIENCE SCREAM WITH LAUGHTER Argh! - Argh!

The man responsible for ensuring

they fitted the strict time slots in the TV schedule

was editor Chris Wadsworth.

David, hello. Hi. Nice to see you again.

- Nice to see you again. Come and sit down. - Thank you.

These are the rooms I used to occupy a lot.

- Yeah. - This is where we looked atthe whole show and put it together.

And you used to edit some of my best bits out and put them on the floor.

- Of course. - Yeah, thank you. - That's what we do.

And trod on them probably. Oh, trod on them? No, no, no.

Nicely spooled onto bits of spare.

While Chris physically cut the shows,

decisions were shared between him, John Sullivan and the director.

I would do an assembly where all of John's lines

and all of your performances now edited together,

but it could be ten minutes too long and that would be on one tape.

- Yes. - You'd then doa second assembly,

which is a shorter version.

The original stayed untouched.

One episode that ran several minutes over was series five's Tea For Three.

The story centres on Trigger's niece visiting Peckham

and both Trotter brothers trying to impress her.

Well, yes, tomorrow's fine by me, sweetheart, yes.

But, with a newly acquired hooky sunbed,

Del ends up stitching Rodney right up.

John's scripts were so full of fantastic bits.

How.

With the absolute necessity to keep the plot,

sometimes it is the laughs that have to go.

There are certain bits in the programme you just can't cut.

Sometimes the BBC allowed their prize possession to run over.

This is BBC1.

But this would only be for the first transmission.

The network don't want anything more than 29 minutes,

but in the early days, Presentation at the BBC

were a little bit kinder to us

and occasionally we'd, you know, pop in a 30-minute show.

And, depending on the evening it was going out,

they could've had another programme that was running short.

While the long version was allowed to be shown on its first viewing,

any repeats of the show had to be cut down

to fit the strictly timed schedules.

To do that, some scenes were lost.

So if you weren't watching BBC1 on the 21st September 1986,

you may never have seen this rediscovered gem.

Does your face hurt?

Only when I smile.

Wonderful, that.

It's wonderful how nature compensates.

How do you mean?

Well, with a face like that, he's got nothing to smile about, has he?!

- Good, isn't it? - Yeah. - Very good. Look...

An awful lot of times, in situation comedies,

you see stuff that is padding,

it's clearly padding, because they're three minutes under.

You never saw that with Only Fools And Horses.

The bits that went were... were blissful,

and pity that they went, but it tightened everything up

and so it makes every episode a little gem, a little masterpiece.

I remember discussing it with John.

We cut more jokes out

than other shows had got in their entire episode.

Another scene that went out originally,

but was lost from the many home-video releases,

is this wonderful moment from Uncle Albert.

I like to think that this song was named after my dear, sick wife.

It is that beautiful old ball-ard...

...Ada.

- Ada? - Is there a song called Ada?

There must be, he's about to sing it.

FLOURISH ON PIANO

? Ada

? You with the stars in your eyes... ?

Here's a bit from Miami Twice.

Spot what evil editors have taken out.

Before I run it, just look at the difference of quality.

That's the transmission that went out

and this is now the restored film.

- You're joking. - I'm not.

Look, go back again, look at that.

That's how it was transmitted.

- It can't be. - Look at your... look at your tie, for example,

and how, suddenly,

the tie comes alive with colours and everything.

Yeah, that is amazing. This is the advantage of film.

By the way, Reverend, I'll be in to see you in a minute,

I've got something I want to talk to you about.

- Yes, of course. I'll be inside. - Good.

What do you want to see him about? Just a bit of business, sweetheart.

Business?! How can you discuss business here? This is a church!

Yes, I know that.

I mean, this is FOR the church.

I've got this idea that'll make thousands and thousands of pounds.

All right, sweetheart, what am I supposed to do?

Keep shtoom and say, "Stuff the little orphans"?

We lost a couple of nice lines. I'm sorry...

There's no being sorry now, it's gone out!

It's been found again, so it's all right, you're back in again.

Ah, come on, Raquel, even churches have got to make profits.

Have you read your Bible recently?

Have you?

No.

But I remember our RE teacher reading it to us once

and there is a chapter in the Bible

actually called the Book of Prophets.

So don't tell me that God doesn't know a bit of bunce when he sees it.

No, it doesn't mean "profit" as in financial advantage,

it means...

- What? - Well...

That was a lovely christening, Raquel.

One of the nicest I've... So, little trims.

I don't want anybody to know that I've been there.

- No, no. - I want John's script

and your performance to shine through.

Yes. Yes, of course. Not that it's been edited.

A typical studio would usually have five cameras.

But all the individual feeds were wiped after recording.

However, some have recently been found in the lost archive.

I've got the ability now

to put extra reaction shots in.

On the top left, I've got the main coverage,

but I've got also a recording of this camera, taking you,

and another one, which is taking the three shot.

It makes you sick, dunnit, eh?

I feel like a mosquito who's caught malaria.

So now we're using that camera in the cut,

but we've still this other camera on you.

So that's a cut to the single Buster.

Little sod threw his breakfast all over me.

What a surprise. Come here.

I'll feed him.

Raquel's taken him to have a nap.

Ohh. Puts you right off, dunnit, eh?

- Nothing worse than Weetabix in a beard, is there? - No.

So, here, we've got other cameras readjusting... Yes.

Sauce?!

So I've got the line "puts you right off, dunnit?" on a close-up,

so I can bring that to the front.

Now if you look at it, I've come away from the three shot,

you're going to be in a single, then we cut to Rodney.

I'll feed him.

Raquel's taken him to have a nap.

Ohh. Puts you right off, dunnit, eh?

Nothing worse than Weetabix in a beard, is there?

So now, with those two extra recordings,

I can change that to a close-up of you,

come away from the three shot,

go to you,

"Puts you right off, dunnit?" and then cut back to Rodney.

It's a luxury we never had back in 1981.

- No. - We just had to takewhat we were given.

It was really odd to... to be in front of David

and... and actually alter the scene as shot.

Um, I think...

It just showed how flexible that modern technology is.

Once you've got isolated streams of recording,

you can see David and Nick really reacting to each other,

and so you could put in extra shots just to heighten the comedy.

We're going into the self-catering-holiday trade.

Cor, what, on 200 nicker?

Yeah, well, we're starting in a small way.

What you got, a Wendy house?

Careful, Del.

You could slip and kill yourself as easy as anything!

Now!

Argh! Aaaargh!

Oh!

I love you, Trotter.

Yes!

Ta-da!

No other sitcom could turn family chaos into comedy gold

quite like Only Fools And Horses.

It has a quality that lots of the old-school shows had,

which is it does appeal to the whole family.

He who dares wins.

It's genuinely funny.

He's the sort of bloke who buys a tin of baked beans on Tuesday

so he can have a bubble bath on Wednesday.

You two still ain't got the hang of them revolving doors, have ya?

It isn't dumbed down, it's not offensive. It's just clever.

RAQUEL:Aaargh!

DEL:Aagh-agh-aagh!

Aargh!

One of the show's best recurring gags

was Rodney's dread of little Damien,

where terrified looks and music

said more than words ever could.

Rodney, Albert.

Let me introduce you...

...to Damien.

MUSIC: O Fortuna

But, in this never-before-seen clip from the vaults,

we finally get to hear Rodney spell out his fears.

That kid's weird.

Damien?

Oh, don't start that, Roddy. He's lovely.

No, there's something strange about him.

Wherever I go, he watches me.

And when I look at him, he just grins.

Well, he watches you and he smiles at you cos he loves you.

You're his Uncle Rodney.

I was round the flat once

and Raquel said that Damien hates garlic.

Well, lots of kids don't like the taste of garlic.

No, I can sense it.

And the little boy's so pretty and lovely.

It wasn't difficult for me to suggest

that he wasn't an evil person

cos he was the sweetest child.

He's got my number all right.

You wait till he's 18, he'll have me, no problem.

I mean, I'll take all the necessary precautions,

I'll avoid canals and lifts and black masses,

but he'll get me somehow or other.

Still, at least that way, I won't be around when he takes over the world.

VIOLINS SCRAPE MENACINGLY

Was that all cut? Oh, what a shame.

That was lovely.

There were some lovely bits,

but I suspect that that might've been a John cut.

Oh, OK.I think it might've been

he thought it was getting a bit cruel.

John Sullivan's DNA is in every fibre of Only Fools And Horses -

not bad for a former scene shifter

who joined the BBC just to be closer to the comedies he loved.

This rare interview, not broadcast for over 40 years,

was filmed before his first sitcom,

Citizen Smith, even aired.

A chance to glimpse John Sullivan at the start of a career

that would make him one of Britain's most respected comedy writers.

In case you're wondering why people are moving scenery behind me,

John Sullivan used to shift scenery at the BBC

before he started writing scripts for them.

- John, very nice of you to bring in your own chair. - Thank you.

I'm glad that wasn't a settee.

We don't normally ask our guests to do that.

How does it feel to have left all that behind?

Pretty good.

God, he was a handsome guy. Yes, indeed.

- He was so shy, wasn't he? - Yes.

But, gosh, he was good-looking, wasn't he?

I was deeply in love with John.

Sorry, sorry, I was deeply in love with you too.

Too late, you were in love with the writer.

I mean, he was a scene shifter, as everybody knows...

That's right, yes... at the BBC, um,

but people always think he just happened to be there.

He said he actually got the job in the hope that he could get an in.

How did you get your script accepted, John?

It all started with a conversation in the BBC club

with Dennis Main Wilson, who's producing the show now.

I told him about the idea, and he liked it,

and asked to see the script,

which was a snag, because I hadn't even written it then.

So I took a fortnight's holiday and wrote the script

and it just grew from there.

The classic story he told me was that when he...

I assume it must've been after Citizen Smith... Citizen Smith, yes.

...he was window cleaning at the time to earn some extra money,

and he was up a ladder, cleaning a window

and looked through, and on the television,

which someone was watching in the flat, was a repeat of Citizen Smith.

Power to the people!

And he was going, "There's something bloody wrong here."Yeah.

"What am I doing up here?"

And he got himself an agent and then, from that day on,

John cost a lot more money. A lot more money.

You've also been hailed as an exciting new talent.

How does that make you feel?

Makes me feel I've got to live up to a lot.

And live up to it he certainly did.

I love you so much.

1996's Time On Our Hands

sees Rodney unable to deal with Cassandra's miscarriage.

- How's Cassandra? - Fine, thank you.

I got a lot of feedback from that... I bet you did.

- ...from the public, from that storyline. - I bet you did.

And it was really moving and people seemed to...

...really appreciate the mix

that John Sullivan brought to that storyline...

Yeah... in terms of it being really, really sad,

but also being very, very funny.

I'm really worried, Rodney. Has he ever suffered with pleurisy?

Only when he's tried to spell it.

I'll make a pot of tea.

Yeah, all right, sweetheart.

Agh!

All right. Oi, Raquel, I'll have a cu...

Oh, ah... Raquel...

Newly uncovered scenes like this one add even more emotional weight

to what was already one of the most powerful storylines

ever told in a sitcom.

Rodney. Thank you, Rod... Rod...

Oh, Del wants a cup as well.

SHE SIGHS

What's wrong?

I'm just worried, that's all.

A man can't keep on drinking and smoking

and staying out late without it having some effect.

Oh, there's no need to worry, Raquel.

Del's one of those people who can survive anything.

They're a sort of tribe, you know.

You find them in every country in the world

and their entire lifestyle and philosophy

flies in the face of medical science.

They drink too much, they eat greasy food,

they smoke cigars and cigarettes, but nothing ever happens to 'em.

Anybody else tried it, they'd be dead by 40,

but this tribe just goes on.

They usually pass away peacefully in their sleep aged 90

and beside them is a burnt out roll-up,

an untouched sausage sandwich

and a half-finished bottle of Guinness.

Oh, and don't ask me whether Del is one of them, OK?

Cos he is, Raquel. He is.

Actually, Rodney, I was talking about you.

DAVID LAUGHS Me?

Nothing wrong with me.

Rodney, you've been barred from the Nag's Head.

Serial killers don't get barred from that pub.

I know what's happened and I can only try and imagine

how you and Cassie must be feeling,

but you're out almost every night at the pub,

leaving her alone in the flat.

Well, Cass wants to be on her own.

No, she doesn't, she wants support.

She wants you.

I'm not stupid enough to say, "Forget what's happened."

You never can.

What I am saying is get back to basics,

to all those everyday things

that have to be taken care of.

You've got to do it for Cassandra - and for you.

And for the baby you WILL one day have.

That is from the heart.

Into Raquel's dialogue...

...comes truth.

I think that John wrote that from somewhere

that was true.

Do you think that he had some experience

of a family member that had gone through it?

- I think so. - That he'd seen? - I think so.

Another rediscovered gem from the same episode

shows just how brilliantly Only Fools And Horses mixed heart and humour.

Here, I'll tell you what, Rodders.

Why don't you and Cassandra come round to dinner tonight, eh?

No, I don't fancy it, Del.

Uh... Raquel's mum and dad are coming round.

That's why I don't fancy it.

LAUGHTER

Look, Rodders, go on.

Come round, will ya?

Eh? Do me a favour, cos I'm nervous, you see.

You know, Raquel's dad,

he's a successful antiques dealer, ain't he?

I won't know what to talk about.

The only antique I've got is Uncle Albert.

I'm not in the mood. I've got other things on me mind.

Hey, listen, I tell you what, put that down, right?

You come with me up to the flat and we'll talk about these other things.

I don't want to. Why does everybody want me to talk about it?

Because you've got to talk about it!

"Got to"?

What, is there some new law that Brussels have introduced?

"Your wife's had a misca..."

"Your wife's had a bad turn, so you've got to talk about it"?

No.

All right, OK. Look, let's forget that, eh?

Tell you what, look, let's go up to the flat

and have a nice cup of Rosie. Eh?

It's unusual to have Del trying to coax Rodney...

Absolutely... to talk about something emotional...

Yep... but that made more sense because Del was with Raquel now

and so he would've had that learning curve with her.

- It'd always been one thing, hadn't it, really? - Yeah.

Derek being the funny old one who has the ideas

and Rodney having to follow along.

Now, this is a Jaws-type story.

Jaws? Jaws has been done. Yeah, I know, that's been done,

but this is different.

It's called...

...There Is A Rhino Loose In The City.

And suddenly John Sullivan's almost swapped it

so that it's Rodney who's got this heavy thing to carry,

and Del's having to... to try and bolster

- and become the one underneath that's pulling him up. - Yeah.

But a newly restored scene from the lost archive

shows this storyline didn't just bring Del and Rodney

to a new understanding...

Cassandra can't tell a lie.

Raquel can.

The moment one leaves my lips.

...it brought Del and Cassandra closer too.

What did you say to Rodney?

Who, me? Nothing.

Just he came home and he seemed, you know, kind of different.

- Oh. - We sat down and talkedabout what happened

and he accepts it now.

He seems ready to get on with things.

Well, it's like I said, Cassandra, you leave Rodney alone long enough

and he'll come round in his own good time.

Yeah...

Thank you.

Oh, shut up.

It's what I'm here for, innit, eh?

Aw, that's so... And that was cut too, all these lovely scenes

- that had to go. - That was so nice.

Such a sweet moment because it's also Cassandra

being very nice to Del for once, which is, uh...

- Cos she's always found him very frustrating! - Exactly!

Del actually being really kind. Again, that's also...

Isn't it quite unusual that you and he had a scene together?

Well, a scene like that, yeah.

- Yeah. - We did have scenesbecause through the dating period,

- he interfered with the whole of it, didn't he? - Oh, right.

So that's really lovely, that's a real turn-around.

That's really lovely. From him trying to, you know,

sabotage, really...

Yeah... in his way.

Oh, look at the state he's left this place in.

Wait till I get my hands on that little plonker.

Ooh!

What are you two doing there?

You look as though you're sitting there

waiting for your case to come up.

We've been sitting here discussing art, that's all.

Oh. Isn't it funny that every time he discusses art with someone,

their buttons come undone?

- Ring the doorbell. - Eh? - Ring the doorbell!

I've got me key! No, just ring the doorbell!

All right.

BUZZER PLAYS THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

Vive la France! DEL LAUGHS

Only Fools And Horses is a family show...

Wave goodbye to your daddy.

...but that didn't mean that John Sullivan didn't like to push a joke

as far as the BBC would let him.

Fancy a curry?

There were occasions where those, er, people upstairs

got concerned that it might upset

families who watched the programme with their children.

What's the matter with you, you moaning little git?

Well, you had to be a bit careful cos the powers that be

could say, "You can cut the whole scene if you don't cut that."

He's got what doctors call a low count.

- What's it mean? - Nothing!

It means he's been firing more blanks than the Territorials.

There's a whole story about "plonker", "dipstick", "wally".

They were all references to various parts of the male body.

What you going on about, you dipstick?

They got past the censorship because...

The censor didn't know... they didn't know what a plonker was.

What a plonker!

And a wally was a pickled cucumber

that you used to buy in the fish and chip shop.

- Oh, it was a wally? - Yeah.

It was what we were representing... Of course.

But when you saw it, that is where the...

I think we call it phallic.

Are we allowed to say "phallic"?

Still, John Sullivan and the Only Fools crew

knew the BBC censors were watching,

so they'd often grab a safety take when the jokes pushed their luck.

Listen, I know the Government keeps asking us to save energy,

but this is taking the piss.

In 1982's Ashes To Ashes, the more risque line was used,

but the secret vaults have uncovered a never-before-seen cleaner version.

Listen, I've heard about the Government trying to save energy,

but this is taking the wee-wee.

I reckon someone somewhere would've said

"Do you know what, why don't we just do 'wee-wee' just in case?"

so they filmed both.

- Yeah. - And they had both in the can, and then made a decision later.

Interesting that the version they chose was "taking the piss"

cos it was deemed, I suppose, common lingo.

He would never have let Del Boy say, "wee-wee".

Never in a million years.

You plonker!

Some of the brothers' bawdy language did keep the censors on their toes...

Got a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp, ain't she?

Leave it. All right, go on. You can have the best one.

That IS the best one!

...but one scene deemed too risque

for pre-watershed Britain

was found in the lost archive,

which can finally be shown on TV

for the first time ever.

It's this sea air, you know.

It does something to a woman.

- Yeah? - Oh, yeah.

I had this woman once.

Gloria. Gloria something or other.

Anyway, talk about a cold woman. Cor.

She was so cold, she could freeze for Birds Eye.

Then I took her away for a weekend

down at the caravan site at Herne Bay.

Well... she went like a wild thing.

It went from Mary Poppins to Debbie Does Dallas

before I could get the lids off the takeaway.

Ho-ho! Yeah, John Sullivan going into slightly smutty territory.

He was never afraid to do that, was he? He was always...

Always wrote on the edge.

Debbie Does Dallas is a porn film.

Oh, OK. Well, you should know...

- Well, I've got a copy at home. Yeah, exactly. - Exactly!

I've never seen it.

It's the, er, you know, the ozones.

Makes 'em all... sensual.

Do you want any Brut?

No.

Oh, all right.

Mmm...

Ah, it's lovely, that.

You'll be all right, bruv.

It's not just cut scenes and lost moments that have been found,

but also a whole treasure trove of out-takes and bloopers.

Joyful...

Yes!..revealing moments that celebrate the laughter,

the camaraderie and the sheer magic

that brought Britain's best-loved sitcom to life.

I don't quite understand what you mean, Mr Trotter.

No, well, I didn't expect you to understand straight away, Reverend.

I mean, it is a... Ha-ha-ha-ha...

HE BLOWS RASPBERRY

AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

I haven't drunk anything yet.

You know if you saw them dry or anything go wrong,

it was either they were doing it on purpose, or if they did go wrong,

they would make it very funny anyway.

- But you knew they'd get it right the next time. - Yeah.

The pop business is a fashionable business

and I'm a fashionable person, who goes wrong every time...

AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

One needed to keep the audience up and with us -

that would be a way of releasing the tension.

I think she's really excited about it.

You know, inside.

- You could tell. - Yeah.

Well, she was, like, you know, all choked up.

Well, who wouldn't be?

Yeah.

Well, you know, I'll go and calm her down a bit.

DEL CLEARS THROAT

I can't, there's no cameras out here.

AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

APPLAUSE

I think we saved that. We did it all right.

I gave you the wrong cue, didn't I?Yeah.

- They're working out where they went wrong. - Yeah, you see, look.

- Isn't that amazing? - Mm.

- Even then, in a quick break, they're working out what went wrong. - Yeah.

And there's another thing, Del.

Last year, you decorated our baby's room.

- Yes, I know. - No, I decorated it!

LAUGHTER

Oh, Lord... Oh, look...

Oh, God, the mistakes!

Oh, you looked so young then.

Oh, young and thin! Crikey!

- So young. - Well, we WERE young.

I'm going to go once more and if I don't get it right, I'm going home.

AUDIENCE LAUGHTER

I'm seeing me playing Del Boy and making a terrible mistake,

- and Nick will laugh. Yeah. - And, you know...

Cos everybody knows the next time, it could be them making the mistake.

- Exactly. - Everybody knows that. - Exactly, and that's it.

And it was good, clean, honest fun.

Ready? Everybody, smile!

Smile, Trigger.

I am smiling.

To be here now, after all these years,

is a joy and, I suppose, in a way,

a responsibility that we never...

...I certainly never thought

that this would ever happen.

There's something really lovely about that time, that period,

which is summed up by those cut scenes,

but also by the out-takes,

of the sort of joy that we all had making the programme,

because it wasn't just a brilliantly written,

constructed, acted programme,

we were a family.

I can't believe that these scenes, they're actually available

because we were always told that they'd been destroyed.

Cos we were always very upset

when bits went that we thought were our best bits.

And they're so sweet.

John Sullivan has saved the National Health Service a fortune,

because laughter is the best medicine.

Still seeing people's joy and enjoyment now,

you know, 20 years since we've done it, longer...

...to still feel part of an entertainment programme

that provides that sort of pleasure for people, I think, as an actor,

is the greatest honour and the greatest privilege.

I am very proud of the fact that we made such good, clean, honest fun.

Thank you.

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