Uncle Albert Uncle Albert Albert Gladstone Trotter, better known as Uncle Albert, was a fictional character in the BBC sitcom "Only Fools and Horses". He was introduced during the fourth series as a replacement for the character of Grandad due to the sudden death of Lennard Pearce in 1984. He was portrayed by Buster Merryfield. Albert was born on 19 November 1920 on Tobacco Road in London, close to the Docks, where he lived with his brothers Edward, George, and Jack. Albert joined the Royal Navy in 1937, aged 17, and two years later was called to action following the outbreak of
The Fight Before Christmas Matthew Schofield. Similar to the show's "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, this episode features several segments. Since all four of them are set during Christmas, the episode was originally broadcast in December 2010. There have been many Christmas episodes on "The Simpsons" ever since the first episode of the series, the 1989 holiday special "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", and "The Fight Before Christmas" was not the first time a Christmas episode was divided into segments. Several parts of the episode were inspired by popular culture. The train that appears in the first dream segment references the train featured in