Only Fools and Horses Cuts – Part 2
Last week we looked at the opening credits and Series One of Only Fools and Horses. Particularly the way episodes have lost original scenes when released on DVD in the UK.
Today we turn our attention to Series Two Three and Four
Series Two
Series Two is surprisingly unaffected and has not been cut.
Series Three
Healthy Competition
In the third series, the second episode, “Healthy Competition” is affected by one minor cut. In the market place scene with Del and Rodney, Music has been removed. This cut occurs when the policemen begins to walk towards the trotter brothers. In the original version, the music track from the well-known 1975 movie Jaws is played, a similar track takes it place on the DVD.
Series Four
Watching the girls go by
In the fourth series, we see the first major video cut take place, in the episode “Watching the girls go by”.
Watching the Girls Go By missing Scene – Only Fools and Horses cuts
The Scene occurs after Del and Rodney go to a club and Del meets Yvonne at the bar. In the original version, Yvonne starts to sing at Dell after the line “Oi Orlando!”. In the DVD version, her singing is cut and a shot of Rodney is shown. The following lines are lost:
Yvonne: “I would not leave you in times of trouble.”
Del: “Yeah that’s beautiful Vonny, that is really lovely you know. Yeah you’ll go a long way.”
Yvonne: “We never could have come this far. I took the good times.”
Del: “That’s really nice Vonny, that is yeah beautiful I love it.”
Yvonne: “I’ll take the bad times”
Del: Yeah super, “Oi Orlando!”
Yvonne: “I love you just the way you are!”
Del: “Gordon Bennett, that’s my bloody ear hole Vonny!”
Yvonne: “Sorry Presh!”
Del: “Stone me, leave it out.”
Next week we will look at Only Fools and Horses Cuts for Series Five
Coming soon – one episode with 18 minutes cut out!
They cut the horse shit sandwich line with the Driscoll brothers
Can’t see how that’s offensive unless your a horse shit lover
Can you advise what you mean here?
The cut to Healthy Competition isnt as straight forward as just an simple audio edit (over dubbing the new music) – im currently re-editing this start scene and i intitally thought it was a simple audio edit and was using a GOLD screening and the DVD as my source material. whilst doing this i noticed an 8 second difference in the audio tracks (GOLD Vs DVD) – I began to suspect this was more complex and it is. In the first 3 minutes – 8 seconds of ‘footage’ is cut from the dvd.
1, first cut is actually in the titles – just before the episode caption comes up – the shot of trotters van in front of NMH has 20 so frames removed due to a jump in the film (as seen on the GOLD edit). Not on the DVD after Grandads photo goes the close up of the van remains longer than usual and the zoom in shot with the caption is shortened.
2. Shots including the Jaws theme have had the stars /ends removed – 1 second here or 2 seconds there are cut. Anyway cut a long story short -result is 8 seconds of footage is cut from the DVD as well as the Original audio being edited to.
The link to the ‘Cuts weebly’ website is no longer active. Anyone able to publish that table of dvd/vhs cuts somewhere else? Ta
https://web.archive.org/web/20140530025030/http://www.british-tv-cuts.co.uk/only-fools-and-horses.html
These cuts are so annoying
Thanks Ronnie – i can wait to see the next episode
18 minutes missing – it must be Royal Flush!