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The Only Fools and Horses episode that you can't watch
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23 Jul 2022, 14:57
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Creator John Sullivan banned it from airing ever again.
A new Channel 5 documentary has revealed the Only Fools and Horses episode that you can't watch.
It's called 'A Royal Flush', it was a Christmas special in 1986, and speaking on Secrets and Scandals of Only Fools and Horses, editor Chris Wadsworth said: ‘It’s quite a cruel dark episode.
"John said: “This is not a good episode.”
'In A Royal Flush', Rodney and Del Boy stay at the Berkshire home of Lady Victoria, who is a second cousin of the Queen, after the younger Peckham brother strikes up a friendship with the aristocrat.
After enjoying the opera and going on a clay pigeon shoot, Del Boy gets drunk during dinner and begins to make jibes at Rodney’s expense.
Wadsworth continued; "Some 20 years later [John] said, “Can we do anything to take out Del being nasty?". The episode was shown to an audience to get a laughter track but I don’t think we succeeded completely."
TV producer Richard Latto also admits that he thought the episode was a "cruel watch".
'A Royal Flush' was released on DVD in 2005, but only after an edit on Sullivan’s orders, with around 18 minutes of footage cut and the sound of audience laughter added to it.
Only Fools and Horses ran for seven series on the BBC from 1981 to 1991, with more than 12 Christmas specials that aired until 2003.
Sullivan died, aged 64, in 2011.
Earlier this year, The Sun reported that Sir David would like to make more episodes of the show, telling the paper in January: "I’ve always loved Del Boy, who is such a wonderful loser. I would love to revisit him, I need someone to write me a script.
"As a show, it’s very important we don’t forget about it, it has a huge following, it fills in that need for an awful lot of people."
'Only Fools and Horses: Secrets and Scandals' is available to stream on the Channel 5 website now.
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