{"id":6481,"date":"2016-10-31T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2016-10-31T14:38:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:38:26","slug":"still-the-greatest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/still-the-greatest\/","title":{"rendered":"Still the greatest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: right; margin:5px 0 5px 5px;\">\n<amp-auto-ads type=\"adsense\"\r\n              data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\">\r\n<\/amp-auto-ads>\n<\/div>\n<p>Only Fools and Horses is still the greatest sitcom ever and continues to hold the record in the UK of the most watched programmes in the 80 year history of British television.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s battle ratings don&#8217;t come close to the <strong>24.35 million<\/strong> that tuned into\u00a0Only Fools And Horses on December 29, 1996, when Del Boy finally got rich after auctioning an antique watch in <strong>Time on our Hands<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Actually Only Fools and Horses hold 4 episodes in a top 12 vote with 10th spot and\u00a021.35 Million watching the return episode in 2001 called<strong> If they could see us now<\/strong>\u00a0. The other spots for the other two episodes in 1996 <strong>Heroes and Villains<\/strong> (21.33 Million) and <strong>Modern Men<\/strong> (21.31 Million).<\/p>\n<h3>The full top 12 most watched are as follows:<\/h3>\n<p>1. Only Fools And Horses (BBC1, December 29 1996): <strong>24.35 million &#8211; &#8220;Time on Our Hands&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">2. To The Manor Born (BBC1, November 11 1979): <strong>23.95 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">3. The Royal Variety Performance (ITV, November 19 1967): <strong>22.80 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p><div class=\"d7386eeb5bdcd2f43c1295b58ceaf130\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ofah2-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5593259115\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">4. Panorama (BBC1, November 20 1995): <strong>22.77 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">5. The Royal Variety Performance (ITV, November 14 1965): <strong>21.70 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">6. Dallas (BBC1, November 22 1980): <strong>21.60 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">7. To The Manor Born (BBC1, November 9 1980): <strong>21.55 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">8. The Mike Yarwood Christmas Show (BBC1, December 25 1977): <strong>21.40 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">= Coronation Street (ITV, January 2 1985): <strong>21.40 million<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>10. Only Fools And Horses (BBC1, December 25 2001): <strong>21.35 million &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;If They Could See Us Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11. Only Fools And Horses (BBC1, December 27 1996): <strong>21.33 million &#8211; &#8220;Modern Men&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12. Only Fools And Horses (BBC1, December 25 1996): <strong>21.31 million &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;Heroes and Villains&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rodney_balboa.jpg\" alt=\"the greatest\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rodney_balboa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rodney_balboa-530x398.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rodney_balboa-550x413.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofah.net\/blog\/still-the-greatest\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"125\" src=\"\" class=\"alignright wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Only Fools and Horses is still the greatest sitcom ever and continues to hold the record in the UK of the most watched programmes in the 80 year history of British television. Today&#8217;s battle ratings don&#8217;t come close to the 24.35 million that tuned into\u00a0Only Fools And Horses on December 29, 1996, when Del Boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[53,67,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-only-fools-and-horses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Still the greatest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Only Fools and Horses is still the greatest sitcom ever and continues to hold the record in the UK of the most watched programmes in the 80 year history\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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