Only Fools and Horses 'The Lost Archive' special to air unseen scenes on U&GOLD

Mixed · 2Only Fools and Horses: The Lost Archive will air on U&GOLD on Tuesday 20 October, with a second episode on Tuesday 27 October. 1 2 Mixed · 2The show marks the sitcom's 45th anniversary and follows a search of the archives that turned up 66 previously unseen clips and nearly 100 other items, including rehearsal and filming photographs, backstage footage and bloopers. 1 2 Mixed · 2The material is a mix of extended and entirely new scenes from 10 episodes, left out of the original broadcasts because of time constraints or structural considerations. 1 2

Mixed · 2Much of the coverage centres on The Jolly Boys' Outing, broadcast on Christmas Day 1989, in which Del Boy (David Jason), Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst), Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) and their Peckham friends take a disastrous coach trip to Margate; the Mirror says the episode was seen by 20 million viewers. 1 2 Mixed · 2Unaired Jolly Boys' Outing footage includes a completely improvised football match that ends in trouble for Rodney, Del Boy and Marlene (Sue Holderness) talking in the market about a character who later becomes important to the plot, and Boycie (John Challis) teasing Rodney about his love life on the coach. 1 2 Mixed · 2One cut scene features Jake Wood, now Max Branning in EastEnders, as Elvis, Rodney's spiky-haired trainee at a printing firm; the Mirror says the extended scene explains in more depth how Rodney struggled with the office computer system. 1 2

Mixed · 2Viewers will also see for the first time Del Boy explaining to Raquel why he stood her up in the 1988 Christmas special Dates, in a scene where he wriggles out of an awkward encounter with a female police officer. 1 2 Mixed · 2Sir David Jones is quoted in both reports reflecting on the cuts: "The great talent of John Sullivan, he knew he must explain certain things, but what was lost was the truth of the scene. But when you're pushed against time, something has to give." 1 2