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From Prussia With Love
"From Prussia with Love" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, ''Only Fools and Horses''. It was the first episode of Series 5, and was first broadcast on 31 August 1986. In the episode, the Trotters meet a pregnant German girl and invite her to stay at the flat. Synopsis During another night at ''The Nag's Head'', Del Boy, Rodney, and Albert meet a frightened 19-year-old German girl who tells them that she has been in England for a year working as an au pair for another family called the Wainwrights, until they threw her out. While Del and Albert head off home, the girl introduces herself to Rodney as Anna. Rodney invites her to stay at Nelson Mandela House with them for the night, but only discovers at the last minute that Anna is nine months pregnant, something she failed to mention. Back at Nelson Mandela House, as Del is talking to a customer on his new Nomad cordless telephone (which is faulty), Rodney enters with Anna, leaving Del open-mouthed at the sight of her pregnant state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Only Fools And Horses
''Only Fools and Horses....'' is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003. Set in working-class Peckham in south-east London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter and Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter, alongside a supporting cast. The series follows the Trotters' highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the series received numerous awards, including recognition from BAFTA, the National Television Awards and the Royal Television Society, as well as winning individual accolades for both Sullivan and Jason. It was voted Britain's Best Sitcom in a 2004 BBC poll. Lennard Pearce appeared in the first three series as Del and Rodney's elderly grandad. After Pearce's de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Holderness
Susan Joan Holderness (born 28 May 1949) is an English actress on both stage and screen having had appearances in '' Bless This House'' (1974), '' The New Avengers'' (1977), ''Canned Laughter'' (1979), ''The Sandbaggers'' (1980), ''The Cleopatras'' and ''It Takes a Worried Man'' (1983), '' The Brief'' and ''Minder''(1984), ''Doctors'' (2004-2014), ''Still Open All Hours'' (2018–2019) ''EastEnders'' and '' The Madame Blanc Mysteries'' (2021). However, she is best known for her role as Marlene Boyce in ''Only Fools and Horses'' from 1985 to 2003, and its spin-off ''The Green Green Grass'' from 2005 to 2009. Career Holderness was born on 28 May 1949, in Hampstead, London. After taking her A-levels, she trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She began her acting career with the Manchester 69 Theatre Company in ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'', ''Peer Gynt'' and as Desdemona in '' Catch My Soul'' (Jack Good's rock-musical version of ''Othello''). She has worked consist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
"I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" is the debut single written by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and originally performed by Cherrelle in 1984. In 1986, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" was covered by Robert Palmer. Palmer's cover fared better on the pop chart while Cherrelle's version was a hit on the R&B chart. Original Cherrelle version The song was released as Cherrelle's debut single and was her first hit, peaking at number 8 on the soul chart and number 79 on the Hot 100. On the US dance chart, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" went to number 6. A slightly altered version of the song is featured in the 2015 N.W.A biopic '' Straight Outta Compton''. Chart positions Robert Palmer version English rock singer Robert Palmer recorded a cover version one year later and it was released as the fifth single from his eighth studio album ''Riptide'' (1985). The single hit No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1986, behind " Amanda" by Boston. The music video, which was a take on the making o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (singer)
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. He was known for his powerful, soulful voice and sartorial elegance, and for his stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, and blues. While his "four-decade career incorporated every genre of music", Palmer is best known "for the pounding rock-soul classic, " Addicted to Love", and its accompanying video, which came to epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s." Having started in the music industry in the 1960s, including a spell with Vinegar Joe, he found success in the 1980s, both in his solo career and with the Power Station, scoring Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Three of his hit singles, including "Addicted to Love", featured music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan. Palmer received a number of awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Russia, With Love (novel)
''From Russia, with Love'' is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. Fleming wrote the story in early 1956 at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica; at the time he thought it might be his final Bond book. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957. The story centres on a plot by SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence agency, to assassinate Bond in such a way as to discredit both him and his organisation. As bait, the Russians use a beautiful cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova and the Spektor, a Soviet decoding machine. Much of the action takes place in Istanbul and on the Orient Express. The book was inspired by Fleming's visit to Turkey on behalf of ''The Sunday Times'' to report on an Interpol conference; he returned to Britain by the Orient Express. ''From Russia, with Love'' deals with the East–West tensions of the Cold War, and the decline of British power and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bond
The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is ''With a Mind to Kill'' by Anthony Horowitz, published in May 2022. Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character—also known by the code number 007 (pronounced "double-oh-seven")—has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. The films are one of the longest continually running film series and have grossed over US$7.04 billion in total at the box office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennard Pearce
Lennard Pearce (9 February 1915 – 15 December 1984) was an English actor who worked in theatre and television. He was perhaps best known as Grandad in the BBC television series ''Only Fools and Horses'', in which he starred from 1981 until his death in December 1984. Early life Pearce was born on February 9, 1915, in Paddington. He trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Career Theatre As a young actor in the 1930s, Pearce joined a performance tour in Germany. According to Nicholas Lyndhurst, one theatrical performance was attended by senior members of the Nazi Party. At the end of the show, party officials came backstage to congratulate the cast, and Pearce shook hands with Adolf Hitler. Lyndhurst claimed that Pearce said that he regretted not taking the opportunity to kill Hitler. During World War II, Pearce performed for the Entertainments National Service Association. In the early 1960s, he understudied for Stanley Holloway as Alfred P. Dool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandad (Only Fools And Horses)
Edward Kitchener "Ted" Trotter, better known simply as Grandad (9 July 1909 – 1985), is a fictional character who was one of the original leads of the BBC sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses''. He appeared in the show's first three series, played by Lennard Pearce. The character is grandfather to Del Boy and Rodney Trotter. Pearce's death in December 1984 was written into the series with the death of Grandad. His place was taken by Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield). The character was portrayed by Phil Daniels in the prequel series ''Rock & Chips''. Backstory Born in Peckham Rye, London, in 1909, Grandad stated that his earliest memories were of watching the soldiers marching off to World War I and witnessing their return after the Armistice in 1918. He later spoke of the horror of these experiences with his description of the wartime government policy ("They promised us homes fit for heroes, they gave us heroes fit for homes!"). In 1924, after leaving school. Grandad got a job as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nula Conwell
Nula Conwell (born 24 May 1959) is an English character actress. Career Conwell is best known for playing W.P.C/W.D.C. Viv Martella in the long-running crime UK series ''The Bill'' from 1984 to 1993, until her character was killed off. She is also known for her role as Maureen the barmaid in five episodes of ''Only Fools and Horses''. She was asked to appear in the 1985 Christmas special ''To Hull and Back'', but was unable to continue appearing in the sitcom when ''The Bill'' producers would not release her to their rival channel. She also appeared as Kathleen the nurse in David Lynch's 1980 Oscar nominated film ''The Elephant Man'' and also had roles in ''Telford's Change'' and ''Bloody Kids ''Bloody Kids'' is a British television film written by Stephen Poliakoff and directed by Stephen Frears, made by Black Lion Films for ATV, and first shown on ITV on 22 March 1980. Cast * Derrick O'Connor as Detective Ritchie (Richard Beckinsa ...''. References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
