Only Fools And Horses - The Specials Vol 2

Label : Roadshow
Supplier : Roadshow
Format : 4 DVD
Rating : PG
Region Code : 4
Audio : English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Running Time : 277 min
TV Standard : PAL
Screen Format : 1.33:1
Released : 06-Nov-08

What better time to have a moan than at Christmas?!

The original grumpy old man, Victor Meldew does his best to dampen the festive spirit in this in this collection featuring the hilarious 1996 and 1997 Christmas Specials.

Includes the following episodes Frog's Legacy, If They Could See Us Now, Sleepless in Peckham, Strangers on the Shore.The Frog's Legacy:At Trigger's niece's nuptials an old family friend tells Del and Rodney about their mum's old pal 'Freddie the Frog', a bank robber who left everything in his will to her, including gold bullion (from a heist) which has never been found.

Are they, at last, about to be millionaires?If They Could See Us Now!It's been 5 years since those loveable siblings, Del & Rodney, drove off into the sunset to the tune of $6.00.5 million.

Now they're back and thanks to a dodgy South American investment, Trotters Independent Trading Company has been declared bankrupt and forced to move back to Nelson Mandela House.

Before long their novel moneymaking schemes are in evidence again.Strangers On The Shore:Trotters Independent Trading Co.

needs capital pronto.

So when the brothers decide to travel to Normandy to represent Uncle Albert at a war reunion, a 'nothing-to-declare' visit to a wine warehouse seems a cushy option.

But chamboussiz nouvelle!

The reunion town is full of Albert-a-likes ("more Captain Birdseye's Banjo than Captain Morelli's Mandarin").Sleepless in Peckham:After 22 years in Nelson Mandela Towers, the Trotters face eviction by the Official Receiver.

They're in desperate need of some dosh and its certainly not going to come from expectant father, Rodney's Oscar-winning screenplay or Triggers new invention - portable chopsticks!