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Slater: Remember the days Del, all us lads down at the river playing Pirates? Trigger was Long John Silver, Boycie was the shipmate...what character did I play, Del?
Del: You played the bloke that walked the plank.
Slater: Yeah that's right, I was always the bloke that walked the plank. I was in and out of that water more times than a duck's head! I always wanted to be Blue Beard!
Del: Well you should've asked.
Slater: I did, but you'd never let me!
Del: I did...once.
Slater: Oh yeah, I remember that was the day that Blue Beard had to walk the plank, wasn't it.
Mistakes
when Del and Rodney are sitting in the van after the auction you cant see into into the back of the van for huge boxes,when they start shouting and screaming the camera angle changes to show the van rocking from a distance, you can see someone in the back of the van through the back windows banging against the side of it See more...
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David Jason was the fourth choice actor to play the character Del. Jim Broadbent (who later went on to play Roy Slater), Enn Rietel and Billy Murray were all asked before Jason but all turned it down due to other commitments. Jason was actually only picked four days before filming started on the first episode.
The story behind why Trigger calls Rodney Dave is that apparently Roger Lloyd Pack kept getting names mixed up during rehearsals early on in the show's history. "Dave" came from David Jason when he was actually with Nicholas Lyndhurst [Rodney]. It stuck and quickly became part of the show's immense appeal.
It Never Rains... (series 2)
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (series 5)
This episode was actually going to be David Jason's last as he had told the writers that he wanted to go elsewhere to further his career. Just before John Sullivan had finished the script, he changed his mind and said he wanted to stay. The alternative ending was to see Del take up Jumbo's offer and go to Australia and then Rodney and Albert would trade together.
Tea for Three (series 5)
Time on Our Hands (series 8)
Towards the end of the episode, when Del is in the flat thinking about his life growing up and living there, you here a voiceover of Grandad (I THINK it's him but I can't remember 100%) saying: "Your dad always said that one day Del Boy would reach the top, but then again he used to say that one day Millwall would win the cup", (referring to football's FA Cup) and the joke being that both situations were unlikely. I just thought it was ironic as Millwall were in fact surprise finalists in the 2004 FA Cup final - and although they did not actually win it - I thought it was worth pointing out anyway.
If They Could See Us Now...! (series 9)
Mother Nature's Son (series 99)
The Jolly Boys' Outing (series 99)
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