Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

" In Only Fools and Horses Rodney Charlton Trotter is named after the club.

In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

* Nicholas Lyndhurst-Actor, best known for playing Rodney Trotter in Only Fools and Horses.

Only Fools and Horses, one of the most successful sitcoms, began in 1981 and was the most durable of several series written and created by John Sullivan.

*" Dates " ( Only Fools and Horses ), an episode of the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses

He is best known as the main character Derek " Del Boy " Trotter in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981, the voice of Mr Toad in The Wind in the Willows and as Detective Inspector Jack Frost on the ITV crime drama A Touch of Frost from 1992.

About two brothers in South-East London, the series was in many ways a forerunner to Only Fools And Horses, only Jason was in the more dopey ' Rodders ' role, with Peter Armitage playing the cleverer of the two.

This situation was re-enacted in Only Fools And Horses.

In 1981 he found his most enduring and popular role, Derek ' Del-Boy ' Trotter in the BBC situation comedy Only Fools and Horses, created by John Sullivan.

* DCI Roy Slater, a character in Only Fools and Horses

* Trigger ( Only Fools and Horses ), a fictional character from the BBC sit-com Only Fools and Horses

Composer and conductor Ronnie Hazlehurst, who had also produced themes for such series as Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister and Only Fools and Horses created the theme for the show.

They nevertheless commissioned a ninety minute film named " Getting Sam Home ", which was broadcast on 27 December 1983, and started a trend which would continue with other British sitcoms, including Only Fools and Horses.

The public house features briefly in an episode of Only Fools And Horses.

Waterloo has frequently appeared in television productions, including Waking the Dead, The Commander, Spooks, The Apprentice, The Bill, Top Gear and Only Fools and Horses.

In November 2007, she appeared in the Only Fools and Horses spin-off The Green Green Grass as the mother of Marlene.

Whenever Only Fools and Horses character Boycie orders a drink at The Nag's Head it is always a large Cognac

Some of the most successful examples include As Time Goes By, Steptoe and Son, Dad's Army, Keeping Up Appearances, The Likely Lads, Fawlty Towers, Allo Allo, The Good Life, Are You Being Served ?, Yes Minister, Only Fools and Horses, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, The Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted, Blackadder, One Foot in the Grave, Some Mothers Do Ave Em, Porridge, The Thin Blue Line, The Office, The Young Ones, Coupling, Outnumbered and Game On.

Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was ... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil, and transformed by this translation, did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat, interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to, if not the illusion of, unmistakable three-dimensional identities.

Only those actually with Payne when he was shot, or who had left the party within not more than five minutes ( make five arbitrary ) positively had none.

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

Only that curious, animal grunting Alec had heard during their fight.

Only Bucky Harris, the `` boy-manager '' of Washington in 1924, and Eddie Dyer of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1946 had accomplished the feat.

Only three standard models -- Buick, Chrysler, and Mercury -- had slight year-to-year gains in March sales in the county.

Only 8% of the worries had behind them real causes which demanded attention.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

Only one house on the street had no lawn before it.

Only the dive itself had any meaning.

Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.

Only if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride.

Only with Aram Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations.

Only 4, 000 inhabitants remained in the city ; the rest had followed evacuation orders.

Only the oldest of the Catholic Ambrosians, the Fratres S. Ambrosii ad Nemus, had anything more than a very local significance.

Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens.

In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".

Mira Sorvino is an alumna of the Veritones of Harvard College where she had the solo on Only You by Yaz.

Only a few individuals in the Soviet Union dared to defend ' traitors ' like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, and those who had dared were inevitably punished.

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.