Only Fools and Horses Advertising Wizard. Only fools and horses British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan, and made and broadcast by the BBC. Seven series were originally broadcast in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003.
After a relatively slow start the Only Fools And Horses show went on to achieve consistently high ratings, and the 1996 episode 'Time On Our Hands' holds the record for the highest UK audience for a sitcom episode.
Set in Peckham in Inner London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter, Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney, and Lennard Pearce as their ageing grandfather who later replaced by Buster Merryfield as their Uncle Albert.
Only Fools And Horses was backed by a strong supporting cast, the series chronicles their highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich.
Only Fools and Horses spawned many merchandising spin-offs. Several books have been published, most notably the officially sanctioned 'The Only Fools and Horses Story' by Steve Clark and 'The Complete A-Z of Only Fools and Horses' by Richard Webber, both of which detail the history of the series.