Video Nasty Episode Review
Brief: Rodney gains a grant from the council to make a comunity film, this gives Del an idea of a way of making a few bucks. Unfortunately Mickey Pearce has other ideas that will keep the Nags Head entertainment up
Transmitted: 28.09.1986
Duration: 30 minutes
Viewing Figures: 17.5 million
Rodney’s Art Class is given a £10,000 grant to make a film spotlighting the local community, but first he has to avoid the scheming intentions of Mickey Pearce and Del Boy.
Whilst Rodders suffers from writer’s block, Del provides him with inspiration and a tale of a killer Rhino escaping from London Zoo and laying waste to innocent victims on the streets of the city. Rodney immediately points out the flaws in the logic behind the plot, and Del leaves him to it.
But without telling Rodney, Del has already arranged for Mickey to head down to the town hall to film different couples’ weddings at £50 a time – and he has also managed to persuade half the neighbourhood to pay £10 for the opportunity of becoming an movie extra.
To make things worse, Mickey arranges for the lovely Amanda to pop round the Trotters’ flat in her nurse’s uniform and begin filming a ‘blue movie’ called Night Nurse, which is due for its premiere in the back room of The Nag’s Head.
Episode Observations
- In Video Nasty, When they are all watching mickys video in the pub, it takes them a while to realize that he filmed it in the Trotters flat!.
- In Video Nasty, when mickey and rodney are up the bar in the nags head discussing rodneys film, watch and listen before mickey says the words “yeah,well i thought it would be a girl” you can hear audio of mickey saying “yeah,well i thought” although his lips never move.
- In Video Nasty, The actor playing the Vicar – Rex Robinson is the same actor in Healthy Competiton playing the Auctioneer.
- In Video Nasty, when Rodney closes the door in the kitchen while Mickey starts making the Night Nurse film the wall behind the kitchen door has no window in it yet in Sky’s the Limit studio scene on the balcony when you see the satelite dish for the first time it shows a small window (in the Kitchen wall).
- In Video Nasty, the video of Night Nurse shown to all the lads is different to what was actually filmed by Mickey when Rodney interupted it. For example the scene from when Rodney walked into the lounge from the kitchen to when he walked out took 10 secs in real life but Mickeys video took about 15 secs to show the same scene. Also when Rodney comes into the lounge, in the real life seen he walks a fair way before noticing the nurse saying “Mickey you better not be do…then he looks” where as on the video he almost immediately looks to the nurse after saying “Mickey”.
- In Video Nasty, the doors in the flat seem unusual colours. In most of the episodes they are a sicky yellow but for some reason in this episode the main lounge door is cream on one side and yellow on the other. Also Grandads door seems to of turned a strange green during the majority of the scenes.
- In Video Nasty, When Mickey Pearce is filming Rodney walks in and says something then turns and walks back into the kitchen. When the video is shown at the Nag’s Head Rodney turns the other way before walking out.
Video Nasty Script
The script will be downloadable from here
Did You Know?
The idea for the script was based on a true life article about a youth club that were given a grant from the local council to do filming, but all the equipment and money thereafter disappeared.
The lost script according to superfans…
The script of the Rhino loose in the city has been expertly recreated for us by Rico. Very funny well worth a read click here to download
Yes the GOLD version looks odd. Very washed out, almost as if it a non-broadcast version. It makes it look like a cheap pilot! Does it look better on the DVD version?
Can anyone explain to me why the style of film has changed on the GOLD version of this episode? It used to have that “filmed in the studio” look but all of a sudden it looks like it was all filmed on location with that ‘jerky’ effect.
You are wrong Rex Robinson who plays the vicar in this episode was not the auctioneer in Healthy Competition that part was played by Glynn Sweet.
“Also Grandads door seems to of turned a strange green during the majority of the scenes.”
That’s the wall colour as you can clearly see that the door is wide open as you can see the hinges.
In the pub scene at the beginning, Rodney mentions that his work might not be as good as ‘Cathy come home’
Years back, Lennard Pearce starred in Cathy come home as a ratepayer. Lennard Pearce also played the part of Grandad in only fools and horses!