Series Seven Wrap - Only Fools & Horses Podcast

So we do not actually have a whole lot to go over in terms of history this time because there are no more gaps between series.

So we're not going to be discussing the beginning of series eight here.

There is no series eight.

Series seven is the last series.

And we've reached the end of the normal series, as we said in the intro.

After this, every episode is considered a special, a Christmas special, the trilogy, whatever you want to call it.

They were all aired at Christmas.

They were all specials only, feature lengths, no more 50-minute episodes.

Even the 1996 trilogy, they're all an hour plus, aren't they?

Yeah, that's true.

If you thought our episodes were long before, let's see what happens.

Good luck.

And to us as well.

Yeah, shit.

We mused over this a little bit in our series six wrap, but I'll say it again, because as far as I read, there was no actual decision made by the BBC or John Sullivan or anybody else to end it after series seven or end the series after series seven.

It just sort of happened that way.

And it's more likely because, you know, as we've said a few times, John Sullivan never knew when it was the last episode.

And we definitely talked about this quite a lot last week at the end of Three Men, a Woman and a Baby, because in lots of ways, Three Men, a Woman and a Baby could easily have been the last episode.

It actually, yeah, it didn't end up.

Just materializing that they ever commissioned another series.

The specials continued to be made every year for three years after Three Men, a Woman and a Baby.

So there was Miami Twice at the end of 1991, Mother Nature's Son at the end of 1992 and Fatal Extraction at the end of 1993.

Then there was a gap in 1994 and 95, so no episodes.

And then the 1996 trilogy intended to be the final conclusion to the Trotter story, ending with Time on Our Hands.

At least