Only Fools and Horses prequel, or Before The Glue Boilers

You remember Only Fools and Horses right? I mean, there's that one where Del falls through the bar. There's that one when they ran through fog as Batman and Robin. That one where Del fell through the bar. "Bonjour". That one where the Peckham Spring Water fell through the bar at Bruce Wayne's mansion. That one where Bruce Wayne had a bottle of Peckham Spring Fog in that bar and Uncle Albert told that war story about that time when Rodders was replaced with a spring. Well, it's back... but not as you know it.

Derek Trotter is returning to BBC One in a prequel to Only Fools and Horses about his teenage years. It'll be called Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Chips. It'll be set in 1960 and was written by John Sullivan. Now, remember all those times Del talked about his Dear Old Mum... she's in it too.

She's called Joan and she likes A Bit Of The Uvver. Sullivan reckons it'll give viewers an insight "into why Del and Rodney turned out they way they did". Mercifully, for the time being, it's only a one-off.

Sullivan said the new show would be "set in the real 60s, before The Beatles and Mary Quant made London the coolest place on the planet". "The drama will feature South London at its least glamorous, where money was scarce, the staple diet was rock salmon and chips, and the flicks offer the only hint of glamour," he said. A teenage Trigger will also appear in the show, as well as Boycie and Denzel. 

Two words: Muppet Babies.