Wanted (Only Fools and Horses) Wanted (Only Fools and Horses) "Wanted" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses". It was the sixth episode of series 3, and was first broadcast on 15 December 1983. In the episode, after an incident with a local woman, Del Boy pretends that Rodney had been dubbed the 'Peckham pouncer' and is being hunted by the police, so Rodney goes on the run. Rodney and Mickey Pearce are at business as usual trying and failing to pick up girls at "The Nag's Head", until Del Boy walks in to spoil their fun. As Rodney walks home,
Only Fools and Horses and become friends with when they were working on "Citizen Smith", a draft script was shown to the Corporation's Head of Comedy, John Howard Davies. Davies commissioned Sullivan to write a full series. Sullivan believed the key factor in its being accepted was the success of ITV's new drama, "Minder", a series with a similar premise and also set in modern-day London. Sullivan had initially given the show the working title "Readies". For the actual title he intended to use, as a reference to the protagonist's tax and work-evading lifestyle, "Only Fools and Horses". That name was based on a