Only Fools And Horses, Video Nasty, 1986
We’ve picked this episode to feature as it contains some real classic Mickey Pearce Moments.
Video Nasty was the penultimate episode of series 5 first screened in September 1986.
Summary
When Rodney’s art class is given a £10,000 grant to make a film spotlighting the local community, writer’s block is the least of his worries.
A scheming Del smells an opportunity to make money. Initially offering Rodney the benefit of his advice providing him with a ridiculous tale of a killer rhinoceros escaping from London Zoo and laying waste to innocent victims. Rodney immediately points out the flaws in the logic behind the plot, and Del leaves him to it or does he?
Never one to let a pound pass him by and without telling Rodney, Del has arranges for Mickey Pearce to head down to the town hall to film different couples’ weddings at £50 a time – and he has also managed to con half the neighbourhood to pay £10 for the opportunity of becoming a movie extra.
Things get worse when Mickey has his own ideas as he arranges for a woman called Amanda to visit the Trotters’ flat in a 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.
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Starring
David Jason
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Patrick Murray
Details
Channel: BBC1
Written By: John Sullivan
Original Transmission Date: 28th September 1986