Mother Nature's Son (Only Fools and Horses) Mother Nature's Son (Only Fools and Horses) "Mother Nature's Son" is the eleventh Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com "Only Fools and Horses". It was first broadcast on 25 December 1992. In the episode, Del sells tap water as "Peckham Spring". The episode repeats on the UKTV channel "Gold". With Christmas coming, Del's application to buy the Trotter family's council flat in "Yuppy Love" has finally been granted, albeit rather late and suddenly, meaning he now owns the flat but is not as able to pay the mortgage as he was originally planning to. He also inherits Grandad's old
Only Fools and Horses features in polls to find the most popular comedy series, moments and characters. It was voted Britain's Best Sitcom in a 2004 BBC poll, and came 45th in the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. It was 3rd on a subsequent viewers' poll on the BFI website. "Empire magazine" ranked "Only Fools and Horses" #42 on their list of the 50 greatest television shows of all time. It was also named the funniest British sitcom of all time through a scientific formula, in a study by Gold. Scenes such as Del Boy's fall through a