Only Fools and Horses July 2018, John Sullivan's son, Jim Sullivan, announced that an "Only Fools and Horses" musical was nearing completion and is due to launch on 9 February 2019 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. Derek "Del Boy" Trotter (played by David Jason), a fast-talking, archetypal South London 'fly' trader, lives in a council flat in a high-rise tower block, Nelson Mandela House, in Peckham, South London, with his much younger brother, Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst), and their elderly Grandad (Lennard Pearce). Their mother, Joan, died when Rodney was young, and their father Reg absconded soon afterwards, so Del became Rodney's surrogate
Only Fools and Horses has been released on VHS, DVD and audio CD in several guises. A DVD collection containing every episode was issued, along with various other special edition box-sets, such as a tin based on their Reliant Regal. Videos and DVDs of "Only Fools and Horses" continue to be among the BBC's biggest-selling items, having sold over 6 million VHS copies and 1 million DVD copies in the UK. Four episodes ("The Long Legs of the Law", "A Losing Streak", "No Greater Love" and "The Yellow Peril") were re-edited for audio purposes and released on audio cassette on 12 October 1998. The