Only Fools and Horses Series 2

• Cert:
• Cat.no: BBCDVD 1045
• Running time: 231 minutes
• Year: 1982
• Pressing: 2001
• Region(s): 2, 4 (UK PAL)
• Chapters: 48 plus extras
• Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Stereo)
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Fullscreen: 4:3
• 16:9-enhanced: No
• Macrovision: No
• Disc Format: DVD 9
• Price: £19.99
• Extras: None
  

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  Director:

  Ray Butt

Producer:

Screenplay:

Music:

Cast:

Derek ‘Del Boy’ Trotter: David Jason
Rodney Trotter: Nicholas Lyndhurst
Grandad: Lennard Pearce
Trigger: Roger Lloyd Pack
Mike: Kenneth MacDonald
Denzil: Paul Barber
Mickey Pearce: Patrick Murray
Boycie: John Challis
Marlene: Sue Holderness

C’est Magnifique, Hooky Street.

Yes, it’s time for more Only Fools and Horses with the complete second series of wheeler-dealer Del Boy, plonker Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst) and old-timer Grandad (Lennard Pearce), first broadcast from October 21st to December 30th, 1982.

There are eight episodes on this disc starting with The Long Legs of the Law where Rodney nearly gets the family Trotter into big trub by dating a policewoman, then Ashes to Ashes in which Del gets to sell off Trigger’s grandmother’s genuine antique urns, except that one of them has her late husband’s ashes inside. Poker is the name of the game in A Losing Streak but the episode title should give you an idea as to what happens; and Rodney’s love-life is again the bone of contention when he dates the wife of a jailbird.

In The Yellow Peril Del and Rodney have a job on their hand painting a Chinese restaurant, then Grandad gets into trouble with the Spanish police on as the Trotter family holiday comes round in It Never Rains. A Touch of Glass is the oft-repeated classic episode which results in a broken chandelier and, finally, the 1982 Christmas episode, Diamonds are for Heather, sees Del falling for the lovely Heather.

Almost twenty years have passed since the original broadcast of this series. The picture quality’s the same as series 1 – a little on the soft side, but now it’s in stereo, not that that makes a great deal of difference, although the dialogue is a little more clear. The average bitrate is approximately 4.40Mb/s for each episode.

There are six chapters per episode, totalling 48 in all, while the menus are silent, but the main one has some subtle animation. The dialogue and subtitles are English only.

There aren’t any extras, but £19.99 is still well worth it for four hours of a great comedy series.