Only Fools and Horses....

Only Fools and Horses....

Only Fools and Horses....

Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter

Rodney Trotter

Trigger

Uncle Albert Trotter

Boycie

Mike Fisher

The cast rehearsed in a church hall in Hammersmith, but dress rehearsals were at the BBC TV Centre on Sunday afternoons. David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst always went to the canteen just before the recording in front of a studio audience. Jason always had sausage, chips and beans while Lyndhurst always had egg, chips and beans, like a ritual or a superstition, because they used to get so nervous, something they hated themselves for doing; sometimes they were joined by others.

John Sullivan and Gareth Gwenlan approached David Jason in 2011 with Del Boy coming back at 65 and what had become of everyone. Jason was up for it, because anything was possible in Sullivan's hands. But two weeks later, Gwenlan phoned Jason saying Sullivan was in intensive care with viral pneumonia. He seemed on the mend, and got to leave hospital and go home at one point, but he had a relapse and went back to hospital and died not long after.

David Jason collaborated with the costume designer at the start of every series, where they would step out to the shops to upgrade Del's wardrobe for the new adventures ahead. He described Del's fashion sense as "a bit bright. A bit Jack the lad." Jason even kept some of Del's shirts and sweaters; it would have felt wrong to throw them away.

Del Boy: [taking the rise out of Rodney wanting to get a job] Yes, sir, I have qualifications. I have two GCE's, a suspended sentence and I know a good joint when I puffed one!

Rodney: I don't think I'll ever laugh again.

Del Boy: Now, as the Bible says, 'Clothes maketh the man'.