It Never Rains...

"It Never Rains..."
Only Fools and Horses episode
Episode no.	Series 2 Episode 6
Directed by	Ray Butt
Written by	John Sullivan
Produced by	Ray Butt
Original air date	25 November 1982 (9.5 million viewers)
Running time	30 minutes 29:28 (DVD) 29:29 (iTunes)

It Never Rains... is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses. It was the sixth episode of series 2, and was first screened on 25 November 1982. In the episode, Del, Rodney and Grandad go on holiday to Spain. All is going well until Grandad gets arrested.

Synopsis

It has been endlessly raining for four days in Peckham, and the Trotters haven't been able to flog any of their sun-hats.

At The Nag's Head, Del Boy bumps into his friend Alex, a down-on-his-luck travel agent who is also mentioned in Miami Twice. They have a chat about how they can boost their businesses, and Del suggests that Alex offer an 80% discount on a holiday to the next customer, who just happens to be Del.

Back at the flat, Del tells Rodney and Grandad that they're going to Benidorm, Spain. Rodney is worried that Grandad will cramp their style, but Del just tells him to shrug it off.

When they get to Benidorm, Del and Rodney manage to pick up a couple of girls, but when they go back to their hotel room, they find Grandad asleep with his false teeth by his bedside and so the night ends there.

A few days later, on the beach, Rodney and Del are worried about why Grandad has been acting very withdrawn since they landed. Del tries chatting up a "French" woman but loses out to a burly Englishman. Meanwhile, Rodney discovers that Grandad's been arrested and after telling Del, the Trotter Brothers search for Grandad.

At the police station, Grandad tells his grandsons a long and convoluted story about why he might've been arrested: in 1936, when his family poor, Grandad and his friend Nobby Clarke hitchiked all the way to Southampton, got a boat to Tangier, and after a failed attempt to join the French Foreign Legion, became gun-runners during the Spanish Civil War. Eventually, they were captured, Nobby was tortured, and the pair were deported back to England. After hearing the story, Del bribes the guard into letting Grandad go, but it soon turns out that Grandad was only arrested for jaywalking and is free to go with no charge anyway, leaving Del out of pocket. Rodney says that they best go to the drug store to get cotton wool for Grandad's cuts and bruises. When Grandad says that he hasn't got any cuts and bruises, Del then says to Grandad "It's early yet!", meaning that Del and Rodney are going to inflict the cuts and bruises on Grandad.

Episode cast

Trivia

• Grandad mentions a friend called Nobby Clarke. A character by that name starred in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, played by Kenneth MacDonald, who would later star in Only Fools and Horses as Mike.
• Although this episode is set in Spain, the scenes in "Spain" were actually filmed in Dorset. Studland Bay, near Bournemouth was used for the beach.
• In the scene where they arrive at the airport, the guard checking the passports was The Bill legend Graham Cole who played PC Tony Stamp for 25 years, although he was uncredited for the role.
• Bournemouth beach was used to shoot the scenes in Benidorm due to the budget.^[1]

Music

Mungo Jerry : In The Summertime

References

External links

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