7.5/10695 votesLoading...#1 - A Slow Bus to Chingford
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1981
Del has a dream: The Trotter corporate skyscraper, rising majestically against the Peckham skyline. It's time for the latest moneymaking scam, Trotter's Ethnic Tours. But, why are there no takers?
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: John Sullivan
7.6/10925 votesLoading...#2 - Big Brother
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1981
Del's confident at last he's on to a winner with Trigger's consignment of Old English vinyl briefcases. How can his brother Rodney even think of abandoning the high-flying world of trading for a real job?
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: John Sullivan
7.6/10724 votesLoading...#3 - The Second Time Around
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1981
Del's rekindled passion with old flame Pauline and it looks like wedding bells are in the air again. Rodney's not so thrilled after what happened to her first two husbands...
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: John Sullivan
7.7/10730 votesLoading...#4 - The Russians Are Coming
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1981
The threat of nuclear war looms over Peckham. What will become of the Nag's Head if the Russians attack? One things guaranteed: the Trotters will be sitting pretty in their DIY shelter...
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: John Sullivan
7.7/10558 votesLoading...#5 - Video Nasty
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/28/1986
Rodney gets a grant from the local college to make a film, but first he must come up with a viable screenplay. Del gets him a secondhand typewriter, and also suggests a storyline of 'A Rhino Loose in the City'. To make matters worse, the director, Mickey Pearce, fed up with waiting for Rodney to write the story, starts making porn films, only for Rodney to end up starring in one.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
7.8/10597 votesLoading...#6 - Yesterday Never Comes
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/1983
Del Boy falls for posh tart Miranda when she comes to view a 'Queen Anne' cabinet, but Miranda is more interested in the painting that the boys' Gran lifted from her art dealer employer.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
7.8/10554 votesLoading...#7 - Watching the Girls Go By
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 3/28/1985
Del sets Rodney up with a date, but when she gets to the do at the Nag's Head she makes Rodney wish he hadn't.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
7.9/10771 votesLoading...#8 - Cash and Curry
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1981
Del's swooping in on the deal of a lifetime - it could keep them in Pilau rice forever. All he has to do is get hold of a poxy statue. Trouble is, he hasn't reckoned on a touch of gang warfare.
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: John Sullivan
7.9/10638 votesLoading...#9 - No Greater Love....
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/1982
Rodney's got himself a bird at last! Unfortunately, she's no spring chicken and her jailbird husband is about to be released...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10642 votesLoading...#10 - It Never Rains....
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/1982
The Trotter family holiday is underway when Grandad runs into a bit of trouble with the Spanish police.
Director: Ray Butt
Writer: John Sullivan
7.9/10593 votesLoading...#11 - Wanted
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/1983
Rodney is on the run after he is accused of being the 'Peckham Pouncer' - but where is that fragrant smell, wafting through the ventilation ducts of Nelson Mandela House, coming from?
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
7.9/10627 votesLoading...#12 - It's Only Rock and Roll
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/14/1985
Rodney is the drumless drummer in Mental Micky's band, 'A Bunch Of Wallies'. Del Boy takes on the job of manager, getting them an abortive St. Paddy's night gig at The Shamrock Club.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.0/10672 votesLoading...#13 - The Long Legs of the Law
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/21/1982
Streuth! Rodder's besmirching the good reputation of the Trotter family by dating a policewoman...
Director: Ray Butt
Writer: John Sullivan
8.0/10639 votesLoading...#14 - Ashes to Ashes
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/1982
Del's busy selling Trig's gran's genuine antique urns. Trouble is, one of them is Trig's Grandad's last resting place!
Director: Ray Butt
Writer: John Sullivan
8.0/10631 votesLoading...#15 - Homesick
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/1983
Del Boy uses Rodney's election as chairman of the local tenants' association to plot a move to ground-floor accommodation.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.0/10577 votesLoading...#16 - Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/5/1986
Del Boy gets the chance to make a new start (and to become a millionaire) in Australia - fronting Jumbo Mills's used car business.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10523 votesLoading...#17 - The Chance of a Lunchtime
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1991
Raquel has an audition for a play, and Del has volunteered to help her rehearse. Rodney and Cassandra meet for supper, each thinking that the other made the first move. Things seem to be going well before Rodney gets tangled up with Trudy. Del tells Albert and Rodney that he sees two people when he looks at Raquel. Either Raquel's pregnant or Del's drunk!
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.1/10814 votesLoading...#18 - Go West Young Man
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1981
Rodney’s depressed. His mate Mickey Pearce has moved in on his bird – Monica of the fat thighs – and life isn’t exactly a social whirl. Del has the solution – they’ll all be millionaires in a year – cue his smooth friend Boycie and a very dodgy deal…
Director: Martin Shardlow
Writer: John Sullivan
8.1/10595 votesLoading...#19 - From Prussia with Love
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 8/31/1986
When a German damsel turns up in the Nag's Head, she's definitely in distress - and nine months pregnant at that. Rodney's all beer and sympathy, but Del's got an idea - could this be the answer to Boycie and Marlene's dreams of a child and a golden opportunity to make a few bob along the way?
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.1/10562 votesLoading...#20 - The Miracle of Peckham
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1986
Del Boy gets religion when the Madonna at the local church is seen to shed tears. But why does she only cry when it's raining, and where did that lead in Del's garage come from?
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.2/10617 votesLoading...#21 - Happy Returns
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/21/1985
Rodney's in love with Debbie from the newsagents. Could this mean the end of his dirty magazine fetish? Trouble is she's only 19, and 19 1/2 years ago Del was pretty friendly with her mum...
Director: Susan Belbin
Writer: John Sullivan
8.2/10584 votesLoading...#22 - Hole in One
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/7/1985
The Trotters are potless, so Uncle Albert comes to the rescue by having an 'accident' with the open cellar door of the Nag's Head.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.2/10558 votesLoading...#23 - As One Door Closes
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 4/4/1985
When Del Boy's hooky 'louvry' door deal, financed with Denzil's redundancy money, falls through, the boys attempt to repay him by catching a rare butterfly.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
8.2/10620 votesLoading...#24 - Sickness & Wealth
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/1989
While excruciating stomach cramps and a constant diet of health salts might drive some people to visit the doctor, not our Del! Oh no, he's only suffering from that scourge of all yuppies, PMA - Positive Mental Attitude! So it's going to require some nifty plotting by Rodney and Uncle Albert to get Del to visit the dreaded 'D' word!
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.2/10535 votesLoading...#25 - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1991
After a night at the Nag's Head, Uncle Albert comes home beaten up and tells tales of two, three or was it four muggers. But something isn't right and he runs away from home. Finally Del Boy and Rodney realise where to find him.
Director: N/A
Writer: John Sullivan
The Worst Episodes of Only Fools and Horses
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The misadventures of two wheeler dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter of 'Trotters Independent Traders PLC' who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods...
Genre:Comedy
Network:BBC One
Worst Episodes Summary
"A Slow Bus to Chingford" is the worst rated episode of "Only Fools and Horses". It scored 7.5/10 based on 695 votes. Directed by Martin Shardlow and written by John Sullivan, it aired on 10/6/1981. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Big Brother".