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As we mentioned on some previous articles, Adrian Pegg is a name that you may of seen on the end credits. He was the Production Manager on several of the series and specials of Only Fools and Horses. He is still working as a Line Producer and Production Manager now, although mostly on entertainment and factual entertainment shows rather than sitcoms. Here are some facts he has sent us from his memories of making Only Fools And Horses.<\/p>\n

Some Things You Didn’t Know About Only Fools And Horses by Adrian Pegg.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. I have never been to Peckham.<\/p>\n

2. For the close-ups of Del hang gliding in Tea For Three, we had David dangling from a hang glider which was suspended under a crane.<\/p>\n

3. We were filming the locations and exteriors for \u2018The Unlucky Winner\u2019 but John Sullivan hadn\u2019t written the airport arrival scene so I couldn\u2019t set up a location. The scene was moved into the studio so it was a big set. I was Floor Managing the studio and as we had a limited number of supporting artists I set up a system where they would come in one door and walk through shot, then rush around the back of the set changing a hat or jacket or something, and come back in again for another go.<\/p>\n

4. In \u2018Little Problems\u2019 Del has a mobile phone which changes the channels on the pub TV when he presses the buttons. This would be easy to achieve now, but in those days I had to edit the channel changes into a single tape which we would play in to the TV on the night of the studio. The clips were strictly timed to 1 second each, then some white noise, then the next clip. On the night of the studio I was floor managing and I had to crouch down very low to be in David\u2019s eyeline so I could cue him for the button presses – to synchronise with the pre-recorded video. That way it looked like he was changing the channels.<\/p>\n

5. In Danger UXD my Assistant Flloor Manager, Kerry (now the Head Of Production of a big Independent TV Company), had to crouch behind the bar in the Trotters lounge for a whole scene so that she could make the dolls pop up on cue.<\/p>\n

6. There have been lots of pubs used as exteriors for the Nags Head, they all needed different things. I had to find one in Bristol because of the scene in Dates where Del has to spot the police car in the pub car park through the pub window.<\/p>\n

7. The scene where Del meets Raquel under the clock at Waterloo station in Dates was the first thing we shot before travelling down to Bristol for the three week shoot. We were not allowed to change the time on the clock, so whenever you see the clock – that was the actual time.<\/p>\n

8. The announcer introducing Tony Angelino, the singing dustman in Stage Fright at the Down By The Riverside Club is Tony Dow, the director<\/p>\n

9. In Dates, there is a car chase with Rodney driving the three wheeled van which includes a stunt jump over a hump back bridge. Most of the scene was shot in Bristol, but due to the lack of hump back bridges there I ended up finding one in Ealing just for that shot. The three wheeled van had to be specially reinforced for the jump and it was driven by a stuntman. It took all day to get that one shot.<\/p>\n

10. If you analyse each series you may notice that the amount of location filming decreases with every episode as the series goes on. The simple reason for this was that John Sullivan had never finished all the scripts by the time we went away filming. The later episodes had to be mostly studio based, as the studio recordings were much later and it gave him time to finish the scripts.<\/p>

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