Recap / Only Fools and Horses

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Series 1 (September-October 1981), plus the 1981 Christmas Special

1. Big Brother
2. Go West Young Man
3. Cash and Curry
4. The Second Time Around
5. A Slow Bus to Chingford
6. The Russians Are Coming
7. Christmas Crackers

Series 2 (October-December 1982), plus the 1982 Christmas Special

1. The Long Legs of the Law
2. Ashes to Ashes
3. A Losing Streak
4. No Greater Love
5. The Yellow Peril
6. It Never Rains
7. A Touch of Glass
8. Diamonds Are for Heather

Series 3 (November-December 1983), plus the 1983 Christmas Special

1. Homesick
2. Healthy Competition
3. Friday the 14th
4. Yesterday Never Comes
5. May the Force Be With You
6. Wanted
7. Who's a Pretty Boy?
8. Thicker Than Water

Series 4 (February-April 1985), plus the 1985 Christmas Special

1. Happy Returns
2. Strained Relations
3. Hole in One
4. It's Only Rock and Roll
5. Sleeping Dogs Lie
6. Watching The Girls Go By
7. As One Door Closes
8. To Hull and Back

Series 5 (August-October 1986), plus the 1986, 1987 and 1988 Christmas Specials

1. From Prussia with Love
2. The Miracle of Peckham
3. The Longest Night
4. Tea for Three
5. Video Nasty
6. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
7. A Royal Flush
8. The Frog's Legacy
9. Dates

Series 6 (January-February 1989) plus the 1989 and 1990 Christmas Specials

1. Yuppy Love
2. Danger UXD
3. Chain Gang
4. The Unlucky Winner Is
5. Sickness and Wealth
6. Little Problems
7. The Jolly Boy's Outing
8. Rodney Come Home

Series 7 (December 1990 - February 1991), plus the 1991, 1992 and 1993 Christmas Specials

1. The Sky's the Limit
2. Chance of a Lunchtime
3. Stage Fright
4. The Class of '62
5. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle
6. Three Men, a Woman and a Baby
7. Miami Twice, Part One: The American Dream
8. Miami Twice, Part Two: Oh to Be in England
9. Mother Nature's Son
10. Fatal Extraction

1996 Trilogy (December 1996)

1. Heroes and Villains
2. Modern Men
3. Time on Our Hands

2001- 2003 Trilogy (December 2001 - December 2003)

1. If They Could See Us Now
2. Strangers on the Shore
3. Sleepless in Peckham

Misc specials

• Keep Circulating the Tapes: None of these have been released on home video, although some of them appear in compilations and retrospectives from time to time.

1. Christmas Trees: A short sketch featuring Del and Rodney trying to sell Christmas trees with defective fairy lights.
2. Licensed to Drill: A short episode produced for schools which explains the workings of North Sea oil.
3. White Mice: A spoof documentary featuring Del being investigated by the consumer rights authorities.
4. Royal Variety Show: Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert accidentally walk on stage in the middle of the Royal Variety Show.
5. The Robin Flies at Dawn: A goodwill message sent by Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert to the British troops during The Gulf War
6. Comic Relief Special: A charity fundraising sketch. Initially appearing as a standard episode, the tone gradually turns serious before the actors break character to request donations.
   • Actor Allusion: References are made to both A Touch of Frost and Goodnight Sweetheart.
   • Fake Charity: Only as a joke, but Del comments that if the viewers send him their donations directly, he'll "make sure" it gets to the right people. Rodney is not amused.
7. Sports Relief Special (aka "Beckham in Peckham"): A charity fundraising sketch.
   • Accidental Misnaming: Del thinks David Beckham's son is called Brookside
   • The Cameo: Del just HAPPENS to be best friends with David Beckham. Of course, nobody believes him.
   • Cassandra Truth / Reality Is Unrealistic: Del claims to be selling a line of underpants personally endorsed by David Beckham in exchange for arranging a bouncy castle for one of his children's birthday parties. The market regulars initially just laugh this off as the pack of lies his stories usually are, but in the next scene we find out that Del was telling the truth for once.
   • Malaproper: At one point Del says "It's a good thing we're not on Dragons' Den because god knows what Alex Sugar would have made of all this". The show he's thinking of is The Apprentice, which is hosted by Alan Sugar; Del evidently having gotten him mixed up with Beckham's coach at Manchester United, Alex Ferguson.
   • Once Done, Never Forgotten: Lampshaded, when Del warns Rodney off delivering yet another rant about the painting competition in "The Unlucky Winner Is". The same scene also indicates that Rodney still hasn't let go of the "Peckham Pouncer" incident (from "Wanted") or Del's giving him a sunburn by tampering with the sunbed controls (from "Tea for Three").