Trigger (Only Fools and Horses) Trigger did not know his father and in all seriousness says "he died a couple of years before I was born", when Rodney asks of his whereabouts in the episode "Ashes to Ashes". He was brought up by his grandparents, with his grandfather having also been a roadsweeper. When Trigger is pushed by Boycie to say whom his mother had written down on the birth certificate as Trigger's father Trigger says, reluctantly, "Some soldiers". Trigger is not married, but he occasionally mentions past relationships during the series and is seen on a blind date with a woman in the 1988
The Funny Side of Christmas Humphrey Appleby, Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, and Derek Fowlds as Bernard Woolley "Christmas Trees" is the title of this vignette, in which Del Boy is determined to sell 149 telescopic Christmas trees. Maybe an endorsement from the Church of England would help? "Christmas Trees" was written by John Sullivan, and directed and produced by Ray Butt. Cast: David Jason as Del, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney, Lennard Pearce as Grandad, Jim Pennington as the vicar, and Roy Heather as Sid Cast: Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry, and David Copperfield Norman, Foggy, and Compo get together on Christmas Day, but Norman is