“If your mother was alive today, I’d kill her”
NAME: Reg Trotter
EPISODE: Thicker than water (series 3)
Dad, father, pa, just some of the words Delboy doesn’t use to describe his old man.
Reg Trotter Played by Peter Woodthorpe
Having high-tailed it with the contents of Dels money box, not to mention his birthday cake, 18 years previous Reg Trotter is back in his sons lives, except this time, he claims to only have one son.
Showing what a low life he is he spins the boys a yarn about a long worded illness he has and claims to have come back to warn them to get themselves checked out.
When the results come back Reg seizes the opportunity to split the family up by altering the blood groups making it at first look like Rodney is the son of a band, however Reg soon reveals that it’s Delboy who is the Lone Ranger in the family.
While Reg is out buying Rodney action men and taking him to the zoo Del does some digging and finds that his old man isn’t sick at all and that blood groups don’t actually make a blind bit of difference, so while his mum may have had a thing for brass sections and Italians, she wasn’t guilty of cheating on Reg (this time)
With a deuce in bunce from Del in his pocket Reg leaves the Trotters with his tail tucked between his legs never to be seen again.
BEST LINE: “Rodney, Dad, Kimo Saabee….” Reg deals some playing cards to his family, and Del.
Spot on with casting for Reg in Thicker Than Water. The episode had me totally believing he was Del’s father and Grandad’s son and set the story up perfectly for the Freddy the Frog revelation in episodes to come.
For me, the character should have featured in a couple of more episodes. Could have eventually been a lovable rogue, where Del Boy begrudgingly and eventually respected.
The actor chosen to play Reg Trotter in ‘Rock and Chips’ was for me, a poor choice. I appreciate that acting talents come first, but I didn’t imagine Del Boy’s dad to look like that. I would have thought that John Sullivan and the casting team would have at first looked out for a shorter bloke with dark hair. Not a tall, strawberry blonde haired geezer.
My observation anyhow.