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The Trotter brothers have a meeting at midday and Rodney is far from ready. Del is horrified to discover the reason why.

DEL: (Studying his reflection in the mirror) S’il vous plait, s’il vous plait, what an enigma. I get better looking every day. I can’t wait for tomorrow. Oh, do you know, I’m suffering from something incurable. (Grandad and Rodney ignore him) Still, never mind, eh! Oi, come on Rodney, shake a leg, we’ve got a meeting at 12. What are you doing?

RODNEY: Our accounts.

DEL: You keeping accounts now? Well there you are, Grandad, a lot of people told me I was a right dipstick to make my brother a partner in the business, but this only goes to prove how bloody right they were. You dozy little twonk, Rodney, this is prima-facie evidence ain’t it? The taxman gets hold of that he’ll put us away for three years.

Raise your glasses to over two decades of sitcom success.

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Rodney thinks Del is cheating him … the trouble is, he can’t prove it.

RODNEY: It’s obvious you’re stitching me up. Look at you, you have three or four changes of clothes a day. Me – I’ve got one suit from the Almost New Shop. It gets embarrassing sometimes.

DEL: Oh, I embarrass you do I? You’ve got room to talk. You have been nothing but an embarrassment to me from the moment you was born. You couldn’t be like any other little brother could you, and come along a couple of years after me. Oh no, you had to wait 13 years. So while all the other Mods were having punch-ups down at Southend and going to Who concerts, I was at home baby-sitting! I could never get your oystermilk stains out of me Ben Shermans – I used to find rusks in me Hush Puppies.

Memories …

‘Nick and Lennard were great to work with. Although he was very young, Nick had spent his entire life, more or less, in the business because he’d been a child actor. Lennard Pearce, meanwhile, had been a stage actor for all his life. So we were dealing with actors who I had a healthy respect for because they had served their apprenticeship.

‘Both of them were tremendously easy to get on with, but I think a lot of that was because we’d all worked a lot of time in the theatre, travelling the country, working every night with a live audience, learning our trade. That is hugely beneficial when you work in television. So with John Sullivan’s scripts, and the experience of the cast, I knew we had the essential ingredients.’

DAVID JASON