Twenty-five million viewers watched the swansong of Only Fools and Horses on BBC1 over Christmas 1996, breaking the BBC's previous audience records. This work is an affectionate tribute to the much-loved show, covering all aspects of its amazing 16-year run, from casting to filming, with in-depth interviews with the stars and a complete episode guide. As well as back-stage facts and anecdotes, this book captures the spirit of survival in the face of adversity and inimitable humour which characterized the series and marked it out as a comedy classic.
That week he had no idea that Dennis Main Wilson was chasing all over London trying to track him down. Main Wilson loved the script and so did his boss, Jimmy Gilbert, and they wanted to make it for a Comedy Playhouse series which tried ...
The Story of Britain's Favourite Comedy Graham McCann. family, and made do with such basic amenities as an outside lavatory and an old tin bath hanging up in the yard. School struck John Jnr as an unwelcome and irrational distraction ...
worked upwards from the legs, through the hips and into the spine, ultimately forcing your shoulders out wide, too, and lifting your chin. Now, it was less broad, obviously, in the case of Del Trotter, and the clothes were less noisy ...
In this new official guide, packed full of rare and never-before-seen photographs, Mike Jones and Jim Sullivan - son of John and co-writer of the hit West End show Only Fools and Horses the Musical - chart the creation and evolution of the ...
A force of nature, a man who beat the odds, if only for a bit. This is his story. The story of Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter. Who else could tell the glorious tale of rags to riches to rags to rich(ish) but the man himself?
To mark the thirtieth anniversary of this landmark comedy series and as a tribute to its creator, legendary comedy writer, John Sullivan, who died in 2011, Graham McCann goes behind the scenes of Britain's most enduring comedy.
Winner of the National Book Awards Autobiography of the Year The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's best-loved actors Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his ...
Packed with all the funniest and most memorable lines from the classic British sit-com as it turns 40, this quote book is the crème de la menthe. Never be caught short again.
This book is such gold . . . an absolute delight' ZOE BALL ___________________________ 'During my life and career I have been given all sorts of advice and learned huge amounts from some great and enormously talented people.
The 'crème de la menthe' of the hilarious one-liners from John Sullivan's Only Fools and Horses have been brought together for the first time inThe Wit and Wisdom of Only Fools and Horses.