Christmas Crackers is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses, first screened on 28 December 1981. It was the first Christmas special addition of the show. Only Fools and Horses was a long-running British television sit-com, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were broadcast between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003. ... For other men with this name, see John Sullivan (disambiguation). ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest public broadcasting corporation in the world. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Only Fools and Horses was a long-running British television sit-com, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were broadcast between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Overview

Grandad, cooking the dinner, manages to ruin it by burning the Turkey, forgetting to remove the giblets and then also burning the Christmas pudding. Rodney, bored with the lack of good programming on the television, gets his only enjoyment on the day from a raunchy book lent to him by his friend, Mickey Pearce, and suggests that he and Del go out for the night. Del rejects the idea, saying that they can't leave Grandad alone on Christmas Day, only for Grandad himself to go out shortly afterwards to an OAPs party. Edward Kitchener Trotter (1909-1985 Peckham Rye), known better as simply Grandad, was a character in the popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1981-1985. ... Rodney Charlton Trotter (b. ... Derek Edward Trotter, or Del Boy, as he is more commonly known, is the lead character in the hugely popular BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses. ... As far as we can tell from the hugely informative Little Britain pensioners are disgusting people who piss all over the floor. ...

Del and Rodney visit the Monte Carlo club, attempting to meet some girls. They spot a group of girls to chat up, but argue over who should actually do it. They take so long, that two other men ultimately beat them to it and speak to the girls.

Episode cast

David Jason in A Touch of Frost. ... Nicholas Lyndhurst (born April 21, 1961 in Emsworth, Hampshire) is an English actor. ... Lennard Pearce (born February 9, 1915 in London; died December 15, 1984 in London) was a British actor who mostly worked in theater. ...

External links

• Christmas Crackers on bbc.co.uk