Only Fools and Horses

Del employs younger brother Rodney as a member of Trotters Independent Traders, despite warnings from his business colleagues. When Rodney decides to become the Trotters’ financial adviser – monitoring the accounts and keeping Del’s dodgy dealings in check – Del has second thoughts about their partnership. Cracks show in the partnership when Rodney inadvertently bungles a deal with Trigger. But despite Del’s anger, it turns out that Rodders’ advice would have prevented the purchase of twenty-five briefcases that are locked with the slip of paper containing the combination lock number inside. Del and Rodney have yet another row and "Little Bruv" plans a career change. Desperate to make his mark on the world, Rodney decides to leave for Hong Kong – a great plan, if only he’d remembered his passport. Starring David Jason as Del Boy and Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney Trotter with Lennard Pearce as Grandad Trotter.

Del and Rodney are once again hunting for bargains. And after stopping off at Boycie’s car lot they spy a Ford Cortina convertible that’s being used as a part-exchange[clarification needed] for a Vanden Plas. Del knocks the asking price down to £25, so long as he houses Boycie’s Jaguar E-Type for a week – Boycie bought the E-type as a gift for his mistress. Del ups the price tag of the Cortina to £199 and an Australian buyer expresses interest. With cash in their pockets, a Jag to drive, and both of them single, Rodney talks Del into heading off for a night on the tiles. The Trotters’ night out doesn’t start too well, as they are chatted up by a pair of transvestites in a nightclub. But their luck changes in the form of Nicky and Michelle, They chat them up and tell them that Rodney is a tennis player who challenged Jimmy Connors in the Miami Open. They persuade the women to write their telephone numbers on Del’s cigar pack, with the promise of a date next Friday. On their way home, Rodney accidentally throws the cigar pack out of the window of the Jag, and when Del makes an "emergency" stop, a car smashes into the back of Boycie’s pristine E-type. To top it off, the car responsible for writing off the Jag is none other than the clapped out Cortina.

Eager to forge new business links, Del befriends Vimmal Malik, a wealthy businessman who seems eager to work with Trotters Independent Trading. After a dance at the Camberwell Chamber of Trade, Del and Vimmal are cornered by Mr Ram and his heavy boys. It seems that Vimmal is holding onto a pricey porcelain family heirloom that belongs to the Ram family – and they want it back. To try to make an impression, Del offers to mediate between the two men, especially as Mr Ram says he’ll pay £4,000 for the return of the statue to his family. Unluckily for Del, it’s all a ruse and he ends up losing a fortune to Vimmal and Ram, a couple of conmen touring the country, using the same scam on local businessmen wherever they go.

In the Nag’s Head, Del Boy meets Trigger and is stunned to discover that one of his many ex-fiances, Pauline Harris, is back, 12 years after leaving for America. Del talks to her and Pauline says that her husband, Bobby Finch, has just died. Rodney then walks in and is not pleased to see Pauline, because he remembers how she used to treat Del. Grandad is also horrified when he hears the news. Back at the flat, Del walks in and announces that he and Pauline are engaged and that Pauline is coming to live in the flat. Sick and tried of Pauline, Rodney and Grandad are heading to Auntie Rose’s cottage in Clapton. Trigger then calls Del and says that the police are investigating Bobby Finch’s death and have concluded that he died from food poisoning. After examining his breakfast, Del decides to go to Clapton with Rodney and Grandad, leaving an eviction notice for Pauline. They arrive at the cottage and greet who they believe to be their Auntie Rose. However, the woman later reveals that she doesn’t know who the Trotters are and that their Auntie Rose moved out of the cottage not long ago. Del manages to find his way out and say that, if you went far enough down the family tree, the Trotters and the woman are related. Del Boy, Rodney and Grandad spend a total of four nights at the cottage before heading back to Nelson Mandela House. In the flat, Del finds a strongly-worded letter from Pauline. The marriage is off and Rodney reveals that Bobby Finch never died of food poisoning: he and Grandad put Trigger up to it. Despite this, Del is happy, until he discovers that Pauline phoned Tim the Talking Clock in America before she left. Grandad is told by Del and Rodney to hang up on the phone immediately.

The trouble starts when Del persuades the local bus company to hand over one of their open-top buses in exchange for Rodney working as a Trainee Nocturnal Security Officer – part of their latest company, Trotter Watch. As part of the deal, Rodney has to suffer the nerve-jangling experience of patrolling the bus station on Tyler Street throughout the night. The next part of Del’s scheme is the launch of Trotters’ Ethnic Tours: a scenic tour around Chingford and Croydon, taking in such ethnic sights as the Lea Valley Viaduct. And despite a great deal of whinging from his family, Del persuades Rodney to drive the bus, whilst Grandad agrees to distribute the publicity leaflets. But when nobody turns up to the launch of Trotters’ Ethnic Tours, it is revealed that Grandad shares the legendary Trotter business acumen and has posted the advertising leaflets through the dust chute of Nelson Mandela House.

Another successful dodgy deal means Del has over a grand’s worth of lead from a disused factory to get rid of. When Rodney points out that the three tons of lead are in fact a DIY fallout shelter, Del refuses to believe him until he reads the accompanying brochure. With the threat of nuclear holocaust preying on Rodney’s nerves he asks Del what he’d do if he heard the four-minute warning. Without an answer, Del considers putting a survival plan into action that means reaching Grandad’s allotment in time to take shelter. It’s during a practice run for the Trotter counter-strike survival plan that they get stopped for speeding by the police – they never find out whether they’d make it in time.