Ashes to Ashes Episode Review
Brief: Del’s busy selling Trigs gran’s genuine antique urns. Trouble is, one of them is Trigs Granddad’s last resting place! Also Grandad keeps feeling a haunting feeling, now who could be behind that ?
Transmitted: 28.10.1982
Duration: 30 minutes
Viewing Figures: 9.8 million
Check out the missing scene where they visit a church with the urn full of the 2nd husband’s ashes right at the end of the video. The cut scene is often seen in the promotion shots for the Ashes to Ashes episode.
Episode Observations
- In Ashes to Ashes, tv camera can be seen moveing away from the door as del looks into hall to his bedroom
- In Ashes to Ashes, At the start of this episode.. when del is talking to rodney.. notice there is only 1 car parked.. when the camera cuts back to Rodney there r many cars parked in the backdrop behind him!
- In Ashes to Ashes, In The Scene at triggers house, watch when trigger shuts the door for the first time, The Wall Nearly Falls Down!
- In Ashes to Ashes, When Del is talking to Trigger on the phone, notice he covers the earpiece, not the mouthpiece!
- In Ashes to Ashes, the actor who played the River Policeman comes back in a later episode to play a different character! He returns as the vet in Sleeping Dogs Lie! You can check this with the cast list – both characters are played by the actor John D. Collins!
- In Ashes to Ashes, Trigger rings Del and Del says he is at Gatwick airport, but Trigger told Granddad, who answered the phone, that he was ringing because Del had been leaving messages on his answering machine. Trigger can’t know that Del’s been leaving messages if he’s at the airport!
Ashes to Ashes Script
Real fools
Could this be the bowling green used?
The market scene in the episode – could be here
Ashes to Ashes location
You can find this on a street corner in Chapel Market Islington
It is actually found in 2 episodes the first one is The Second Time around and the second episode is Ashes to Ashes
The river policeman was played by John D Collins who later played the vet in Sleeping Dogs Lie. You can tell his posh accent alludes to the same actor as in Sleeping Dogs Lie.
In the road sweeper scene there is a company in the back ground.. can’t make out the name. Just curious where it’s filmed and if it’s a legit company. Looks like its real as there is a steel lorry outside.
One thing that I’ve never understood about the main plot of this episode, is why the Trotter’s felt obliged to scatter Trig’s gran’s ashes. Why did they assume they had to perform this very personal duty? Who in their right mind would discover someone elses ashes (especially a best mate’s relative) and go behind their backs to get rid?
I know that the whole point of this episode was this very funny situation but as a story, it doesn’t really make sense.
Del took two urns and both contained two sets of ashes. We clearly see Del ‘zammening’ one of the urns with a magnifying glass. I always wondered why he didn’t ever once look inside? Anyway, back to your question. In short, Del wanted them urns because he believes they are worth a few bob. Trig was away on his hols in sunny Ireland and so he didn’t want to wait for trig to come back because Del being a kunt wanted to cash in on them urns asap.
I wonder what happened to this scene in ‘Ashes to ashes’, we never got to see them take the urn to a church but it was obviously filmed as the photograph shows.
http://www.famousmemorabilia.com/only-fools-and-horses-david-jason-signed-ashes-photograph.html
When Del & Rod are on the river, just before the River Police move them on. In the back ground you can see a Pub and Wapping Old Stairs, The pub is called ‘The Town of Ramsgate’ on Wapping High Street (great food!!). This pub belongs to my parents and is know as one of the oldest London pubs on the river. Historically Wapping Old Stairs is also where Judge Jefferies was arrested, and then hanged.