How exciting when new scenes are uncovered, new gems from Sullivans quill are uncovered and even the comedy still stands the test of time.
It so exciting when a new scene is uncovered, so please now enjoy the three pages of footage never seen before…
Scene 5. Studio
INT DAY AN AIRLINER CABIN
WE CAN HEAR DEL AJD ROD SINGING “VIVA ESPANA”.
WE PAN ALONG AISLE SEEING THE LOOKS OF PROTEST FROM THE OTHER PASSENGERS.
WE SEE THE TROTTERS SITTING IN A THREE-SEATER SECTION.
IT IS OBVIOUS THAT DEL AND ROD HAVE HAD A FEW DRINKS IN THE DEPARTURE LOUNGE. THEY ARE NOT DRUNK, BUT IT WON’T TAKE LONG.
GRANDAD IS IN A PASSIVE MOOD,
DEL AND ROD:
And so we’re off to sunny Spain, Viva Espana. We’re taking that Costa Brava plane, Viva Espana (ETC)
THE STEWARDESS HURRIES TOWARDS THE TROTTERS.
STEWARDESS:
Gentlemen please! The captain has a request to make.
DEL:
You name it, we’ll sing it!
STEWARDESS:
The captian has requested you stop singing!
ROD:
You mean he doesn’t like to know his passengers are happy?
STEWARDESS:
Of course he likes to know you’re happy! The captain doesnt mind you singing but could you please wait until we’ve take off! (LEAVES)
GRANDAD:
I was gonna have a whip round for him as well, but he can go’n whistle for it now!
THEY ALL FASTEN SEAT BELTS AND SETTLE BACK FOR TAKE-OVER.
DEL:
Soon be off Rodders!
ROD:
(BECOMING NERVOUS) Yeah!
DEL:
Take-off is the most dangerous part of the flight!
ROD:
Really?
DEL:
I read it somewhere. It was some enquiry into a crash.
ROD REACTS
DEL:
Still, that means we’ll be laughing once we’re up!….Assuming we get up!
ROD:
Will you leave it out Del!
GRANDAD:
Nervous Rodney? Flying’s never worries me!
DEL:
No, ’cause this is yer first flight!
ROD:
Oh is it??… When I was little he used to tell me that during the war he was one of the few!
GRANDAD REACTS, EMBARRASSED AT HIS PAST LIES
DEL:
He was one of the few alright – one of the few who went on the run!
ROD:
Oh no it was all top secret Del.
Give him a bouncing bomb and a jar of Brylcreme and there was no holding him! He flew in Wellingtons.
DEL:
Why didn’t he wear flying boots like everyone else?
ROD AND DEL COLLAPSE WITH LAUGHTER.
GRANDAD:
You don’t know what I did in my past!…Bloody bits of boys!
MISSING SCENE EXPLAINED BY PERRY
One of the great thing about re-visiting scripts in the collection is stumbling across scenes that never made the final cuts. We’ve all watched each episode so many times is so nice to find something new, especially after all these years. Cast you minds back to the episode ‘it never rains’ remember the little photo sequence of the three Trotters going on holiday? Well some of those little segments were actually filmed. Have a read of the following scene – Del Boy, Rodney and Grandad actually on the plane flying over to Spain. Such a shame footage doesn’t exist but at least we now have these three pages to cherish. We all know the characters so well that I’m sure, like me, you can actually visualise it
You Hooo, Grandad……………..
