2006-11-22 11:25:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
I don’t know but the show wouldn’t have worked without David Jason’s ‘Del Boy’ - as the current spin-off (whatever it’s called) proves.
2006-11-22 12:11:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mr Crusty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that it would have worked if it was set in Liverpool, but Carla Lane had already done the far more inferior 'Bread' which 'jumped the shark' after only a few series. At least when Lennard Pearce died they didn't find a lookalike grandad and the chance arrival of Uncle Albert to take his place worked really nicely unlike the replacement (sinister-looking) Joey Boswell and the new (mutton-dressed-as-lamb) Aveline.
2006-11-23 00:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Uncle Sid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it could have worked if it were set in the North West, the North East, or Scotland.
Manchester, Liverpool, Yorkshire, Glasgow, Newcastle.
All would have been just as funny.
That Del Boy was a wide-eyed Cockney was only because that was John Sullivans experience.
2006-11-22 11:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't matter " where in the world " it was set up, Only Fools and Horses is 'THE BEST COMEDY OF OUR TIME ' and hopefully it will go on being shown for many years to come !
2006-11-22 12:16:08 · answer #4 · answered by Sierra One 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They placed it on Saturday nights for a lengthy time period, and that i became all like... Do human beings nevertheless watch this? is this what I pay my television licence for? previous sitcoms? i did not imagine it became although the BBC is telling me that i'm. at the moment I watch the Saturday Deal or No manage Noel Edmonds. it isn't purely Fools and Horses. Why do purely fools and horses artwork?
2016-11-29 09:26:58 · answer #5 · answered by kuebler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way Pedro!
The characters and dialogue were pure cockney. The actual sit-com formula for OFAH could have been adapted for the different regional dialects but the shows casting was such a winner it would be difficult to emulate its popularity without using such common, strong stereotypical identification.
Bonjour...
2006-11-22 20:30:17 · answer #6 · answered by PvteFrazer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah!!! Peckham was the only place it could have been set in!!!
You could not have had a cockney scouser!!!! (Although, thought Brookie was blindin') Everyone could relate to the duckin' n divin'! and all the characters were believable....because it was the East End!!;D
Think that it was why it was the success that is was....X
Christmas just isn't the same without the special!!
2006-11-22 12:04:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chambourcey Nouvelle! No, Nelson Mandela house rules man!
2006-11-23 00:53:01 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Tallulah♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think that it would have been the same anywhere else. It is the best comedy!
2006-11-22 21:58:55 · answer #9 · answered by Belmar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely NOT as you would have had to 'import' the Peckham Springs mineral water which would have made it a lot less funny.
Even the name is kinda funny it sort of reminds you of Trafalgar Square!
Don't forget:- "play it nice and cool Trig, me old son, nice and cool"!!!!
2006-11-22 11:55:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋