The Frog's Legacy The Frog's Legacy "The Frog's Legacy" is the sixth Christmas special episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses". It was first broadcast on 25 December 1987. In the episode, the Trotters search for the hidden gold legacy of Frederick "Freddie the Frog" Robdal, an old friend of their mother's. Del Boy, Rodney and Albert go to Hampshire to attend the wedding of Trigger's niece, Lisa, who appeared in the episode "Tea for Three". Whilst there, Trigger's Aunt Reenie (Joan Sims) tells Del about a known local gentleman thief, Freddie "The Frog" Robdal. It transpires that Del and Rodney's
Frogs in culture Homer, though in fact a parody of his "Iliad". "The Frogs Who Desired a King" is a fable, attributed to Aesop. The Frogs prayed to Zeus asking for a King. Zeus set up a log to be their monarch. The Frogs protested they wanted a fierce and terrible king, not a mere figurehead. So Zeus sent them a Stork to be their king. The new king hunted and devoured his subjects. Aesop wrote a fable about a frog trying to inflate itself to the size of an ox. Phaedrus (and later Jean de La Fontaine) wrote versions of this fable.