Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) Christmas Crackers (Only Fools and Horses) "Christmas Crackers" is the first Christmas special episode of the BBC sit-com, "Only Fools and Horses", first screened on 28 December 1981, three days after Christmas. It is the first episode to run over 30 minutes, but not the first feature-length. It's Christmas Day and Grandad is cooking the dinner while Rodney is reading a book on body language which Mickey Pearce has lent him. Del returns and gives Grandad a Christmas present (a £20 note), however Grandad tells Del that he has not got him a present this year as "I don't believe
The Devil of Christmas released in January 2016, when the series began filming. "The Devil of Christmas", the first episode of this third series, was released as a Christmas special in December 2016, with the remainder of the series following in 2017. The episode can be understood as a part of the tradition of Christmas ghost stories, which includes the works of Charles Dickens and the BBC's "A Ghost Story for Christmas" series. The inspiration for the use of the Krampus myth came from Pemberton's reading, while stylistic influence, according to Pemberton, came from "old '70s style" episodes of "Beasts", "Thriller" and "Tales of