Sickness and Wealth is haunted (though the council installing their extractor fan the wrong way round might have something to do with it), and he instantly sees it as a chance to make money and the answer to his financial worries. Having convinced Elsie Partridge, Del holds a 'dummy run' séance with all the regular cast (Trigger, Boycie, Rodney, Mike and Uncle Albert) in the hall above the Nag's Head pub. Mike is concerned about 'messing with the forces of darkness' due to the pub being built on the site of a public grave for victims of the Great Plague, but Del and
Cash and Curry script was based purely on the name of the episode "Cash and Curry", from that the script was devised. This episode, along with "Who's A Pretty Boy" and "The Longest Night" are the only three episodes of the whole "Only Fools And Horses" run to not feature the Trotters' flat. It is also the first episode not to feature Lennard Pearce as Grandad. The Trotters sell their Vauxhall Velox to help raise the £2,000. They remain without a second car until "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle", where Del buys the "Prattmobile", a 1977 Ford Capri Ghia. David Jason and