Who remembers looking forward to the Only Fools and Horses Trailers Often seen in mid December?
These OFAH Trailers were especially valuable when there hadn’t been a series for a few years. Some years all we had were just the annual Christmas special.
The Frogs Legacy which is the 1987 one shown in the video above, was not long after series 5 was filmed. In fact it was probably filmed straight after ready for December.
We can see the connection to Series 5 because that include the amazing Tea For Three filmed on 21st September back in 1986.
Some would say that looking forward to an Only Fools and Horses Christmas Special was one of the main events of the year. Well at the time at least 14.5 million of you did. With only 4 TV channels to choose from, very few would opt out of missing the next episode in the Trotters quest to make there next million in Only Fools and Horses.
This is a clip from the 1987 teaser for The Frogs Legacy. A key episode as it introduces us to the idea of Rodney’s father Freddie The Frog or Freddie Robdal. These ideas were later seen in the final episodes of Only Fools and Horses including Strangers on the Shore and Sleepless in Peckham
If you want to see more on the filming of the scenes, then check out
IN SEARCH OF THE FROG’S LEGACY – IPSWICH
by Aaron Spicer
Cool. Any chance the uploader of those trailers has the full recording of the episode that was about to be shown?. I’m not expecting it to be uploaded to youtube or any other site as the BBC youtue etc will just throw a wobbler over copyright, but seeing as they’re the original xmas airings they will be uncut. Fans are demanding the uncut episodes to be released (wasting their time I think), yet people will have those broadcast recordings that will be uncut, so I’m surprised noone is doing copies of those episodes and sending them to fans who want them, unless they are just being tight arsed buggers and keeping em all for themselves. If I had any early episodes like that that are uncut I would be more than be happy to convert them. But sadly I don’t have any. I’m surprised no uncut eps of made it to torrent sites, not something I do but I’m sure any of those that will be on there will just be the DVD versions that are cut to pieces.
Thanks for posting guys. Much prefer looking at the articles on the website here than all the drivel that get’s posted by people on the social media pages.