<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Chronology </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> The Green Green Grass (2005--2009) Rock & Chips (2010--2011) </Td> </Tr> <P> Only Fools and Horses (stylised as Only Fools and Horses ...) is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan . Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas specials aired until the end of the show in 2003 . Episodes are regularly repeated on UKTV comedy channel Gold, Yesterday and occasionally repeated on BBC One . </P> <P> Set in Peckham in south - east London, it stars David Jason as ambitious market trader Derek "Del Boy" Trotter, Nicholas Lyndhurst as his younger brother Rodney Trotter, and Lennard Pearce as their elderly Grandad . After Pearce's death in 1984, his character was replaced by Del and Rodney's Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) who first appeared in February 1985 . Backed by a strong supporting cast, the series follows the Trotters' highs and lows in life, in particular their attempts to get rich . </P>

When was only fools and horses first shown