{"id":2644,"date":"2010-12-19T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2010-12-22T22:52:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T22:52:26","slug":"rock-and-chips-five-gold-rings-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/rock-and-chips-five-gold-rings-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock and Chips : Five Gold Rings – Uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong><\/p>\n

With Rock and Chips: Five Gold Rings about to get its first screening on Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 from 9:00pm to 10:00pm<\/p>\n

You would expect Only Fools and Horses Appreciation Society president Perry Aghajanoff to have some inside information about the new episode.<\/p>\n

Perry hasn’t disappointed us, as he caught up with Only Fools and Horses and Rock and Chips creator John Sullivan on set.<\/p>\n

Perry asked John Sullivan about the new Rock and Chips shows. John confirms these should be viewed as episodes in their own right with their own plots and story lines. We know the characters, we know their personality, so we are now being treated to some great story lines in each episode of Rock and Chips.<\/p>\n

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Rock and Chips is back : Five Gold Rings<\/p><\/div>\n

Perry asked what challenges John has faced writing and producing Rock and Chips. John spoke of how tricky it had been controling the stories to fit in with the established history of Only Fools and Horses. It’s worth taking into account that Sullivan has been laying the skeleton of the Trotters story for over 30 years almost as if whilst writing Only Fools he was aware of a parallel universe going on for a future story that he had in mind namely Rock & Chips.<\/p>\n

Perry asked what made him take the jump and finally put pen to paper and write the initial script for Rock & Chips and why now ?<\/p>\n

John modestly gave credit to Mark Freeland from the BBC. He explained to Mark, that he had been writing a book on the early years of the Trotters. Mark suggested that he brought them to life. So it appears that we have Mark to thanks for this current helping of Rock and Chips.<\/p>\n

Perry then dug deeper into some real specifics that all Only Fools and Horses fans must be itching to have answers too.
\nSome real nitty gritty questions from the early Trotter years included:<\/p>\n

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  • What did Joan die of ?<\/li>\n
  • What did she really say on her death bed?<\/li>\n
  • When does Freddie die ?<\/li>\n
  • Does Rock & Chips have to end when Freddie dies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    So how did Joan die?<\/h2>\n

    John told Perry that it hasn’t been decided what Joan dies of – it could well be cancer but it’s not confirmed – we’ll have to see how possible future stories develop.<\/p>

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