This episode featured the second appearance of. Lovely story and great to see Jim Broadbent back as the villainous Roy Slater. Boycie and Abdul leave, and Slater arrives, having received a call from a nearby resident. Every cast member brought something to the scripts and added to the dynamics of Del and Rodney, Grandad, Uncle Albert and all the other wonderful characters. Del Boy, Rodney and Albert made . This review may contain spoilers. ""i got 75 pence! Home > Only Fools and Locations. Sir David Jason, who played Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter in the show. To Hull and Back: Directed by Ray Butt. (This links in with a sub-plot in which Del is seen to "haunt" Denzil.) "To Hull and Back" is the fourth Christmas special episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, first screened on 25 December 1985. Although the buildings have completely changed this spot, near Harlech Tower, is where various scenes from the episode Go West Young Man were filmed. Yet when Slater returned from his prison sentence in ", Also Ruby says Roy was 18 when he joined the police and his dad suffered a breakdown due to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=To_Hull_and_Back&oldid=1130166883, Television episode articles with short description with no season number, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, The title of the special is derived from the film, This page was last edited on 28 December 2022, at 22:39. This time around, the boys are running errands in Amsterdam. 6.99. Many of the location scenes were filmed in Hull and Amsterdam in Holland. A few days later, upon returning home to Peckham and meeting with Boycie and Abdul at the Nag's Head, the group are cornered by Slater, who, as it turns out, had arranged the deal with Van Kleefe from the start. Also, Slater mentions that he'll be retiring from the police force after solving the case. He also demands they have a cup of tea. Del finds himself designated as the courier between Holland and Britain. Only Fools And Horses S 4 E 08 To Hull And Back. I then went to multimap (this was before google streetview), clicked on locations, then searched for W5 1RH, chose the Birds Eye option, zoomed in on the view and hey presto, its still there. First feature length special.I preferred the laughing in the background though, but it was still very amusing. Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Shop Only Fools and Horses - The 80s Specials [Blu-ray] [2021]. Please consider upgrading to a Pro accountfor less than a couple bucks a month, youll get cool additional features like all-time and annual stats pages (example), the ability to select (and filter by) your favorite streaming services, and no ads! The scenes under the clock were filmed at Waterloo the bloke in the dating agency suggests this as the meeting place, and its exactly where it *was* filmed. Heroes & Villains, Jolly Boys outing & To Hull & Back at the best online prices at eBay! Slater says he is going a long way from here and they should all cheer up, as they still have their freedom. With Rodney standing watch, Del enters the trailer and receives the diamond payment briefcase from Boycie to take with him to Amsterdam. [EXPLAINER]David Jason: Only Fools and Horses legend, 81, pictured looking frail[PHOTOS]. Original air date Rodney follows the lorry overnight to Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire. Del finds himself designated as the courier between Holland and Britain. Hoskins turns into a side road and straight into a police sting. tt0666588. Rick told us about his keen eye for locating Only Fools and Horses outside locations and how this has become a popular hobby growing on his Flickr account. In A Slow Bus To Chingford, the 'Trotters Ethnic Tours" bus is parked here. What a plonker! Del gets him a secondhand . What are the chances he'll realise that?. Previous Back at Nelson Mandela House, Del and Albert reveal to Rodney that all is not lost, because Del, having noticed that the diamond money was fake, had switched two of the diamonds for two of Del's cats' eye cufflinks and kept them hidden in Albert's smoking pipe as revenge on Slater. READ MORE:Only Fools and Horses celebrates forty years on screen 'lovely jubbly'. 0 references. In Time On Our Hands, the antique pocket they found in the garage goes on to sell for millions. Del is reluctant at first as he worries he will get caught and get a 5 year prison sentence. Rodney then sees Imogen kissing another bloke. Del, believing that the 15,000 was also counterfeit but was, in fact, genuine, throws it over the balcony, leaving Rodney and Albert stunned, and Del feeling proud of himself. Back at Nelson Mandela House, Del and Albert reveal to Rodney that all is not lost, because Del, having noticed that the diamond money was fake, had switched two of the diamonds for two of his cats' eye cuff links and kept them hidden in Albert's pipe as a way of revenge. Rodney says a ship can be sailed by the stars but there are thousands of them. Abdul;s cousin says the diamonds are good. Meanwhile, Hoskins drives Slater straight into a police sting. My favourites are Christmas Crackers, To Hull and Back, Dates, The Jolly Boys' Outing, Rodney Come Home, Fatal Extraction, Mother Nature's Son and Heroes & Villains. Running to 90 minutes, shot on film rather than videotape, and featuring location work in Amsterdam, this was no less than a proper film with an appropriately ambitious plot and the total absence of a laugh track, an unthinkable move for most sitcoms of the era. They run into their old friend Slater 'The Slag' but it isn't all plain sailing for . Denzil then getting in and driving them to Hull (pursued by Rodney) was not part of the plan. This is the Full VHS Tape of Only Fools and Horses To Hull and Back as it was Released in 1995! Harlech Tower became recognizable to fans as the fictional Peckham high rise known as the Nelson Mandela House. 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This special marks the first time that the Trotters' flat had an extra wall. Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). Free shipping for many products! Property. Ryan Swain went a long to the official Only Fools & Horses Convention 2018 in Hull at The Mercure Hotel in Willerby this Sunday. Uploaded by He decides they will go to Amsterdam by sea, and that will be good if Slater has all the airports covered. The Black and Whites take on Catalans Dragons in Perpignan this Friday night. Enjoy! narrative location. He says he is after some diamond smugglers. It then emerges that Slater's superiors have long suspected him of corruption, and set him up to be caught in possession of the illegal diamonds, and Hoskins was ordered by the Commissioner to keep an eye on Slater. Boycie and Abdul ask Del to smuggle diamonds from Amsterdam. No one will be any the wiser. After getting lost in the North Sea again, the Trotters eventually find their way back to England by following the MV Norland, a ferry which goes from Zeebrugge to Hull. web pages episode of Only Fools and Horses. again). Del Boy, Rodney and Albert made their way to Amsterdam via boat, departing from the Hull docks after learning that the airports were being monitored. David Jason: Only Fools and Horses legend, 81, pictured looking frail. With the laughter track being dropped and shot entirely on film, this 90 minute special feels like a full scale movie. Del says Rodney will be his diversion when he comes back through customs. He was pestering staff at the store on the North London backstreet and the Furrier sign above the shop is still there to this day. Meanwhile Slater gets a phonecall to say that someone saw 3 men breaking into a lorry at the depot on Soweto Road. You can unsubscribe at any time. ( In fact to this day I deliberately misuse Bonjour as a catch-all term for anything positive. It was a work of art, it was Only fools and Horses at it's peak in the same was as A night at the Opera was for the rock band Queen. And also why there was no studio audience to provide the laugh track. Search the history of over 797 billion Boycie wants to know how Slater knows about the deal. In the episode The Longest Night , the family get stuck in a supermarket overnight with a robber. That is until they offer him a 15,000 cut of the estimated 150,000 sale of the stone on the UK market. Duration:?2 hours 30 minutes ? Yet when Slater returned from his prison sentence in ". It was also the first time that the Trotters' flat had an extra wall. Rodney has to wade in to get it. Slater tells Hoskins that Del is the courier and they have Luton, Gatwick and Heathrow airports covered. "What the bloody hell am I doing in Hull? The Only Fools and Horses Christmas special in 1985 saw the Trotters travel 'to Hull and back', as part of a daring trip to Amsterdam to smuggle some diamonds. The exterior shots and opening credits were all filmed here and the building is still standing to this day. Here's a list of all the filming locations of South London's favourite show. Del finds himself designated as the courier between Holland and Britain. They get sailing and once out at sea, during the night, they get lost, they are 5 hours past the time they were due to arrive in Amsterdam. Ray Butt It was the first feature-length edition of the show and also the first special not to feature or mention the holiday of Christmas itself in the episode. at the best online prices at eBay! Lyndhurst also went on to explain that when they visited the gas rig to look at potential camera shots, they told a rig worker that the gag was to ask for directions to Holland. The lorry pulls up at a cafe the following morning. 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