Only Fools and Horses

Forty-five episodes in seven series, nineteen specials, and the specials are where the plot lives.

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Where to start with Only Fools and Horses

Broadcast order, with the specials in their dates rather than saved for afterwards. This is the franchise where that rule costs you the most if you break it: five of the nineteen specials carry plot that the following series simply assumes you have seen, and every complete series box set on every service presents the seven series as seven clean blocks with the specials filed somewhere else.

  1. 1
    Series 1 to 3, with Thicker than Water after series 3 Only Fools and Horses

    Twenty episodes and the first special that matters. Thicker than Water brings Reg Trotter in and starts the question of who Rodney's father was.

  2. 2
    Series 4 and 5, with To Hull and Back, A Royal Flush and The Frog's Legacy in place Only Fools and Horses

    The Frog's Legacy is the one to keep. Everything Rock and Chips does twenty-three years later is built on it.

  3. 3
    Dates, then The Jolly Boys' Outing Dates

    Raquel arrives in the first and comes back in the second. Series 6 opens as though you know her.

  4. 4
    Series 6, Rodney Come Home, then series 7 Only Fools and Horses

    Rodney Come Home went out five days before series 7 and sets the marriage falling apart that series 7 is about.

  5. 5
    Heroes and Villains, Modern Men, Time on Our Hands Heroes and Villains

    Christmas 1996. Written as the ending, and for a lot of people it is still the ending.

  6. 6
    If They Could See Us Now, Strangers on the Shore, Sleepless in Peckham If They Could See Us Now

    The 2001 to 2003 trilogy takes the millionaire ending away again. Sleepless in Peckham closes the paternity question and hands off to the spin-offs.

Then what? The Green Green Grass and Rock and Chips both come after Sleepless in Peckham and neither works before it. Miami Twice, Christmas Crackers, Diamonds Are for Heather and A Royal Flush are the four you can miss without losing anything.

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The Series

  • Only Fools and Horses 1981, 7 seasons, 45 episodes

The Specials

  • Christmas Crackers 1981
  • Diamonds Are for Heather 1982
  • Thicker than Water 1983
  • To Hull and Back 1985
  • A Royal Flush 1986
  • The Frog's Legacy 1987
  • Dates 1988
  • The Jolly Boys' Outing 1989
  • Rodney Come Home 1990
  • Miami Twice: The American Dream 1991
  • Miami Twice: Oh to Be in England 1991
  • Mother Nature's Son 1992
  • Fatal Extraction 1993
  • Heroes and Villains 1996
  • Modern Men 1996
  • Time on Our Hands 1996
  • If They Could See Us Now 2001
  • Strangers on the Shore 2002
  • Sleepless in Peckham 2003

Around It

  • The Green Green Grass 2005, 4 seasons, 32 episodes
  • Rock & Chips 2010
  • Rock & Chips: Five Gold Rings 2010
  • Rock & Chips: The Frog and the Pussycat 2011
  • Beckham in Peckham 2014

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