He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Uncle Episode Review
Brief: After a night at the Nag’s Head Uncle Albert comes home beaten up and tells tales of two, three or was in four muggers. But something isn’t right and he runs away from home. Finally Del Boy and Rodney realise where to find him.
Transmitted: 27.01.1991
Duration: 50 minutes
Viewing Figures: 17.2 million
To stave of totally skintness, Del employs Rodders as TITCO’s new Director of Commercial Development. Del meanwhile is arranging to buy their flat in Nelson Mandela House.
Uncle Albert is going to the Over-Sixties Club on the estate and is chatting up a lady called Dora Lane. One night, he arrives at the flat, bruised and shaken. He tells Del and Rodney he’s been mugged. Despite being home, something is not right.
Uncle Albert disappears. After much thought, the boys find him, but a visit from Knock Knock reveals the truth about the black eye.
Episode Observations
- In He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Uncle, In the scene just after Albert wets him self (the next day) notice Alberts chair is different, was it that wet?? in the previous scene the chair was white with flowers but the next scene it is brown!
- In He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Uncle, during the scene where Rodney is asking Del if he can have a job, watch the mirror behind Rodney’s head as Rodney asks Del what the wage structure is. You’ll see Del walking backwards ! He’s supposed to be sat down, but it’s odd that Rodney would have been talking to a moving Del.
- In He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Uncle, Knock-Knock boasts to Albert that he could beat him at everything “even when we were at school I could beat you at everything”, yet after revealing he’d had a fight with Knock-Knock, Albert says he felt foolish losing to a man three years older than himself. As boys, it was no wonder that Knock-Knock was better at him than everything, if he had three years advantage!
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Uncle Script
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In He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Uncle, just after Uncle Albert wets himself he gets up leaving the chair to vulnerable Rodney. If you look at Albert’s brown gown as he gets up out of his chair, it’s bone dry.
in response to when del is seen walking backwards when he is supposed to be sat down if you look very closely he is actually leaning back on the chair as when camera views him again he has leant back
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