Only Fools And Horses: Greatest Christmas Moments - C5 Documentary - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Only Fools And Horses. Image shows from L to R: Del (David Jason), Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield), Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Copyright: BBC

Genre

Documentary

Broadcast

2023

Channel

Channel 5

Episodes

1

Features

David Jason, Tessa Peake-Jones, John Sergeant, Theo Paphitis, Sherrie Hewson, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Steve Clark, Robert Glenister and more

Directors

Emma Clarke

Producers

Emma Clarke, Matt Crook, Lyndsey Hicksford, Miranda Glasser and Verity Maidlow

Company

A cushty treat celebrating all the festive editions of the nation's favourite sitcom. Featuring an exclusive interview with the great Del Boy himself, acting royalty Sir David Jason, who shares his secrets from the Christmas sets.

We learn about the special which ran into overtime and cost the BBC big bucks because Sir David kept corpsing. We hear how a shower cap inspired one of the show's most iconic moments, how one Christmas special contained the most expensive joke in the BBC's history and learn, for the first time, which of all the 20 Christmas episodes is Sir David's favourite.

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Production

Studio

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Sunday 24th December 2023 at 9pm on Channel 5

Episode length

90 minutes