Sleepless in Peckham at the sight of it, and Boycie and Marlene are tricked by Sid into paying for everyone's drinks. With only a few days left before the Trotters are evicted from Nelson Mandela House, Rodney gets an enlarged copy of the 1960 Jolly Boys' Outing photo and shows it to Cassandra at a restaurant. He shows her who was in the photo: Del, Boycie, Trigger, Denzil, Sid, Roy Slater, Grandad, Reg—and local gentleman thief Freddie "The Frog" Robdal, (pictured as Nicholas Lyndhurst) who bears an uncanny resemblance to Rodney. Rodney then tells Cassandra that Robdal is his biological father, explaining the
Grandad (Only Fools and Horses) 'ethnic bus tours of old London' - and then failing to deliver the tour's publicity leaflets (a ploy only foiled when Del discovers the discarded leaflets in the dust-chute at Nelson Mandela House). "It wasn't me, Del Boy," Grandad wails on being discovered on this occasion; "It was me brain!" Grandad was also responsible for the spectacular (and noisy) failure of Del's chandelier cleaning business in "A Touch of Glass". When Lennard Pearce died in 1984, writer John Sullivan chose not to replace him but to write the character's death into the series. A funeral was held for Grandad in