Friday the 14th Episode Review
The Trotters take a trip down to Cornwall to make use of Boycie’s country cottage for a spot of salmon poaching.
The fishing trip should be a nice little earner with £10 a salmon being paid for by Mario’s fish restaurant. Del thinks that Rodney, Grandad and he will catch the fish and split the profits 50-50 with Boycie for providing the accommodation – they just didn’t bank on an escapee from the mental institute.
On the rainy journey down to the cottage, a policeman stops their Robin Reliant and warns the tourists that a patient has escaped from the institute for the criminally insane – precisely a decade after he killed a party of weekend fishermen with an axe.
Never one to let a psychotic killer get in the way of a nifty bargain, Del ignores the objections of Rodders and Grandad, and they settle down for their first night in the cottage.
As the storm worsens, Rodney thinks he hears noises outside, and when a face appears at the window, he’s convinced it’s the killer. There’s a knock at the door, and the Trotters’ find the institute’s Chief of Security is there to reassure them – it’s only later that it becomes clear that he is, in fact, the fugitive axe murderer.
Episode Observations
- In Friday the 14th, The remark about that Boycie’s cottage appears to be a bungalow when the boys first arrive for the fishing trip and once inside talk about there being an upstairs, (he feels that this might be a mistake).Well bungalows are known to have whats called an attic/bedroom, which can have a stair case leading to the above mentioned rooms.
- In Friday the 14th, when the Trotters enter the cottage and they light the lanterns, rodney moves the light to look in the kitchen but the light “beam” does not move with the lantern (probably studio lights).
- In Friday the 14th, When the trio are playing monopoly Dels tells Rodney he has landed on park lane,he has actually landed on Bond street.
- In Friday the 14th, when you see grandad, Rodders and del get out of the van and into the cottage you can see clearly that it is a bungalo. But when we go inside the cottage it has stairs. How does that work out.
- In Friday the 14th, Why does the escaped axe murderer knock on the lounge door and not the front door like anyone else would.
- In Friday the 14th, In the opening scene of there is no light switch.
- In Friday the 14th, In the opening scene there is a shot where the camera looks straight into the mirror and you can see that the mirror has been bent in order to not show the camera’s reflection.
- In Friday the 14th, When the Cheif of Security knocks at the front door and del opens it looks like theres a room behind him with chairs etc. But when del goes out to the toilet it is just an empty hut.
- In Friday the 14th, When the boys pull up outside of Boycies cottage you can see its a bungalow the roof being just above the downstairs windows! But once inside the talk about going upstairs.
- In Friday the 14th, could the reason for the spotted mistake above, be that their is an attic above them with steps leading to it?
- In Friday the 14th, watch Grandad move his piece to Piccadilly. He clearly doesn’t care what he threw on the dice, the script only allows for him landing on Piccadilly.
- In Friday the 14th, the Trotters clearly don’t play the official rules of Monopoly. Take a look Rodneys yellow set, Piccadilly has a hotel on where as Coventry St and Leicester Sq only have one house on. The rules state that their must be no more than a one house difference on a set (Hotel counts as 5 houses)
- In Friday the 14th, if you look closely, when the gamekeeper is hit in the face by Del opening the toilet door you can see that he is not close enough to the door to be hit!
Friday the 14th Script
The script will be downloadable from here
Does anyone happen to know if the pub scene from this episode was ever filmed and if so was it originally aired.
I think in the scene Del and Rodney are speaking to an old man who gives them a weather forecast.
What I am trying to find out is whether or not that is Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) singing “gone poaching”! Does anyone know for sure who it is singing?
Was the scene of the van arriving outside Boycie’s cottage filmed in Iwerne Minster. If it is are there any pics of the location or even the address?
Something ive often noticed during Friday the 14th is when the police officer stops them in the van. During the PCs mentioning about the axe murderer to them and how he “killed a party of weekend fisherman”, with the shocked look on their faces, Del then says “nah, I must’ve been out that night”. That line doesn’t make sense to me; why would Del say that?. According to an online script of the scene there is dialogue from policeman after he says weekend fisherman, which is “you mayve seen it on TV”, then after he says “they call him the axe murderer”. Having looked at the scene closely, there does seem to be some short piece of dialogue that’s been muddled with the audience track, but it doesn’t sound like the police officer says “you’ve mayve seen it on TV”, but instead sounds more like “you mayve seen it/him”. If the police man does say that then this explains why Del would say he must have been out that night, hence not seen the programme. Anyone else noticed this?
LOL..no
Baz – I think you need to concentrate on your old day job and re-appoint yourself as chairman of the tenancy association.
Hi Griff.
Do you happen to know if the pub scene from this episode was ever filmed and if so was it originally aired.
I think in the scene Del and Rodney are speaking to an old man who gives them a weather forecast.
yes your correct Baz, I checked the script above where it says you can download from here above and that bit has been cut so yes he, the pc does say it was on tv did you see it? and yes del boy says no I was out that night check above in script so well done for spotting that yes for some reason its been cut on the dvd!
Many people on this website seem to be jumping to conclusions.
Many actors who play characters in Only Fools have sadly passed away, which is not great when it comes to bringing back the show. The very writer and producer John Sullivan has also sadly passed away. If they were going to make an episode at all it would have happened by now. The cast have also grown a lot older and it just wouldn’t be the same bringing the show back. To top ALL of that off the writers son Jim Sullivan said in an interview a while ago: “We would like to make it clear that it is just this once, and that we are not, and never have been, looking to write any new episodes. There was only ever one writer of Only Fools and Horses, and it is going to stay that way.” How can you argue/twist around that? Those are the very words he said when asked “So is this really the last ever Only Fools and Horses episode?”
I know I will have many people going against me here but the point is – the show has had its day and it is better off that it is just left alone. This short sketch for sports relief is great, raising money for charity using this show is just a brilliant idea. I’m a HUGE fan of the show too but I really think it should be left alone and that is pretty much what Jim said too. We have 64+ great episodes to enjoy forever.
R.I.P Christopher Malcolm atleast we have a good episode to remember him by. I shall watch it in memory of him.
Can I just say sorry for my original post appearing 4 times – that was a complete accident.
my message wouldn’t show up on here, so I clicked it a few times.
my apologies if it caused anyone any inconvenience.
Rob M, I must say it did cause me some inconvience.
Can I ask that you properly follow the ofah.net code of conduct next time, or I will be forced to take legal action.
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Rest in peace Rogue 2
Sadly we lost Christopher Malcolm on the 15th February 2014 who played the mad axeman in this episode.
Thats sad news – well so far 2014 hasn’t been a kind year for only fools actors, what with Roger Lloyd Pack’s death aswell.
Thats sad news – well, so far 2014 has been a horrible year for only fools actors passing away – what with Roger Lloyd Pack’s death aswell.
When the “Chief of Security” shows his ID cards to the trio, if you look at Rodney, he checks the cards and then checks the “Chiefs” face as if to make sure it’s the same person as is on the ID cards. Well it’s not the same person and so that’s confusing as Rodney would surely notice that? Great episode and one of my favourites.