Behind-the-scenes stories of how Only Fools and Horses was made, and how the cast could have looked very different. The | dG1fNXdOZjluMFFnYzQ
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00:00Anyway, with all these people and experiences to draw on,
00:03Sullivan would never be short of a story.
00:05But he even found inspiration amongst the cast themselves,
00:09like the origins of Boise's famous laugh.
00:11There was one episode where John, quite out of the blue,
00:14just did this weird laugh.
00:17Just off the cuff, it wasn't in the script.
00:20And then when he came to do the next episode,
00:22I think it was a series later, a year later,
00:24and John Sullivan had written in the script,
00:26Boise does his laugh.
00:27And John said, what laugh?
00:29He said, you know, that laugh you did in that episode.
00:31So he had to go back and listen to it again.
00:41It had actually come from a moment in a pub
00:44when he'd heard this woman who had this ghastly,
00:48cackling laugh.
00:49And he had, for fun, copied it.
00:51And everywhere he went, John, all his life
00:53until his dying day, people would say, go on, John,
00:56do the laugh.
00:57Do the laugh.
00:59Coming up, a rarely seen clip with heartbreaking significance.
01:03And then we got the hammer blow that Leonard Pierce died.
01:07He died during filming.
01:08And we reveal how Marlene got her famous look.
01:11I mean, why not?
01:12Don't we all love a bit of liver print?
01:14It's 1984.
01:16Torville and Dean win gold at the Winter Olympics.
01:18The miners' strike begins.
01:20Nice music, this, isn't it?
01:22I typed it off the radio.
01:23And the half-peat coin is withdrawn from circulation.
01:26Meanwhile, at the Trotters' flat in Peckham,
01:28it's a typical scene with Del and Rodney
01:30gently teasing poor old grandad.
01:33I bring the RAF.
01:34I flew in Wellington.
01:36Why didn't you just wear flying boots like everyone else?
01:39Ah, these old episodes are all so familiar.
01:41I bet Del's going to say that famous catchphrase in a minute.
01:44This time next year, we're going to be millionaires.
01:47Does anyone else think that the flat looks a bit sort of off?
01:51You just take a butcher's at that.
01:52You know, like it's been shot on one of Del's Russian video
01:55cameras.
01:56Magazine about North Sea oil.
01:57Well spotted.
01:59Hang on.
01:59I don't remember an episode where they're reading a magazine
02:02about North Sea oil.
02:04Well, you might think you've seen
02:05every episode of Only Fools, but I
02:07bet you haven't seen that one.
02:08In fact, that episode was made as a promotional film
02:11for schools funded by a petroleum company
02:14to encourage children into the oil and gas industry.
02:17And it's not the only lost episode of Only Fools.
02:20More on that later.