Mother Nature's Son (Only Fools and Horses)
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| Only Fools and Horses episode | |
| "Mother Nature's Son" | |
| Series | Christmas Special |
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| Writer | John Sullivan |
| Director | Tony Dow |
| Producer | Gareth Gwenlan |
| Duration | 65 minutes |
| Airdate | 25 December 1992 |
| Audience | 20.1 million |
Mother Nature's Son is a Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses. It was first broadcast on 25 December 1992.
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[edit] Synopsis
It is the biggest Christmas party at the Nag's Head, and the entire Trotter family and all their friends are having the time of their life - at least until Rodney holds little Damien up to a mirror to find that he has no reflection.
Rodney wakes up in a cold sweat back in his own bed with Cassandra at 7:00am, and tells her about how he and Del Boy haven't flogged a single thing in months.
At Nelson Mandela House, Raquel asks Del to remove all of his hooky gear from Damien's room. After telling Rodney that he has bought the flat off the council, Del suggests taking all the hooky gear to Grandad's allotment.
When they get to Grandad's allotment, the Trotters discover drums filled with an unknown yellow substance. Trigger shows up to examine, but he can't make heads nor tails about it either. Del decides that he, Trigger, and Denzil get rid of the yellow liquid and send it to the council depot, and wears a diving suit that was originally meant to be a present for Albert, so he could visit all the ships that he sailed on and sank.
After getting rid of the yellow liquid by dumping it in a river, Del follows Rodney to an organic health food shop run by a nature lover named Myles. Del suddenly develops a green thumb and decides to grow some vegetables for his family.
Back at Grandad's allotment, the Trotters, now dressed completely like extras from Emmerdale, show Myles a mysterious watering hole called the "Peckham Spring". After tasting the water, Myles gives Del the green light to sell the water to the public
Three weeks later, the Trotters are filling up bottles of Peckham Spring Water from the tap in Del's kitchen. Rodney is completely paranoid that they will be caught sometime, but Del just shrugs it off.
As a result of selling public water to the public, the Trotters get an enormous sum of money, enough for a weekend in Brighton.
A few nights later, Del, Raquel, Damien, Rodney, and Cassandra arrive at the Grand Hotel in Brighton and get all settled in for a weekend to remember.
Later, with Damien fast asleep, Del and Raquel, and Rodney and Cassandra all get into bed and make out. Meanwhile, a report on the BBC news shows that the London river has been contaminated by the same yellow liquid that Del got rid of. As Del switches off his bedside lamp, his bottle of Peckham Spring glows an eerie yellow.
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[edit] Trivia
- The idea for the script was based on a real-life incident where people had their water supply closed as something had been dumped in a nearby reservoir.
[edit] Errors
- Del has bought the flat off the council, but in Heroes and Villains, he is turned down a council grant to do up the kitchen.
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| Preceded by Miami Twice (part two) |
Only Fools and Horses 25 December 1992 |
Succeeded by Fatal Extraction |
