Video Nasty (Only Fools and Horses) Video Nasty (Only Fools and Horses) "Video Nasty" is the fifth episode of series 5 of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses", first broadcast on 28 September 1986. In the episode, Rodney receives a grant to make a local film, but Del sees it as an opportunity to make money. At "The Nag's Head", as Trigger and Boycie talk about Marlene's inability to have children, Rodney enters to tell everyone that he and Mickey Pearce have been given £10,000 by their evening art class teacher to make a local community film. Del Boy and Albert also enter and tell
Mickey Pearce him to the staff dance. He also used Rodney's council film grant to make pornographic movies (Video Nasty) and was beaten up by the Driscoll Brothers for failing to repay them their money for their dodgy mobile phones. Mickey Pearce Michael "Mickey" Pearce is a recurring fictional character in the British sitcom "Only Fools and Horses". The character was played by Patrick Murray. Mickey was a young unnerving man, always wearing a Trilby hat and boasting about some imagined business successes of his. He was ostensibly a friend of Rodney's, although he stole Rodney's girlfriend in Happy Returns and went