An Only Fools and Horses episode is believed to have been banned by the show's creator as he had felt it portrayed Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter badly.
The special festive episode 'A Royal Flush', which was written and created by the late John Sullivan, originally been broadcast on the BBC on Christmas Day in 1986. During the episode, Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst) meets the daughter of a duke, with brother Del Boy (David Jason) then trying to help him make a good impression.
When it first broadcast, the episode raked in 18 million viewers but it has been branded as one of the worst episodes of the show, with creator Sullivan said to have "hated it" himself. Sullivan is said to have taken issue with the portrayal of Del Boy in the episode, which was reportedly completed just hours before broadcast and had no audience laughter, writes The Mirror.
