Over a dozen Reliant Realtos (the three-wheeled vans) were used during the series.

Kenneth MacDonald (who played Mike) died the same day as it was announced that a new trilogy would be made.

John Sullivan wrote every episode.

David Jason was cast as Del Boy after the producers saw him in Open All Hours.

Jim Broadbent was originally cast to play Del Boy, but after David Jason auditioned, he was instead cast as DCI Roy 'the slag' Slater.

Crew members would often find filming outside (often in Bristol, 130 miles from the Trotters' "home" in Peckham, south east London) a tough challenge due to the amount of people who would turn up just to watch and catch a glimpse of the actors.

The original ending was that Del, Rodney and Uncle Albert become cartoon characters as they walked into the sunset. The director, however, decided against this idea.

In the episode "If They Could See Us Now", Del was originally going to appear on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? with Chris Tarrant making a guest appearance. However, ITV did not grant the rights for it to be used on repeat runs of the episode, so instead a fictional quiz show was created to be used and Jonathan Ross made an appearance as host.

Athough the show continued until 1996, and then between 2001-2003, the last actual series ended with the episode "Three Men, A Woman & A Baby" which aired on 3 February 1991. All episodes made since have been Christmas specials.

Crew or equipment visible: In the episode "If They Could See Us Now...", when Del is on the Television programme "Goldrush", the camera is reflected in Rodney's TV when Del is asking him a question.

Continuity error: In "Tea for Three", when Rodney is sitting on the chair and starts eating crisps, you can see that he is sitting on a cushion. It is gone by the time he gets up.

Revealing mistake: In "Who's a Pretty Boy?", when Denzil's wife storms out of the room and slams the door behind her, you can see that the wall to the right of the door lurches forward under the pressure of the closing door.

Continuity error: During "Healthy Competition", when Del is escaping in the van, there is a view from the side of the van and the door is almost completely shut. But in the next shot, which is a direct view of the back of the van, the door is wide open, allowing space for the toy dogs to fall out of the suitcase and onto the road.

Crew or equipment visible: Wires are visible on the butterfly that Del and Rodney try to catch in "As One Door Closes"

Revealing mistake: In one of the shots when you see Rodney is leaning against the wall at the beginning of "Healthy Competition", you can see a group of kids staring directly at the camera.

Continuity error: During "May the Force Be with You", when Del is proposing Slater a deal, Slater says, "I don't like deals" and shoves Del's hand off the phone hook (Del was trying to stop Slater keeping him in custody overnight). But in the next shot Del's hand is still on the hook.

The very first episode, 'Big Brother', originally had a different theme tune, a saxophone theme by Ronnie Hazlehurst. Some later showings have replaced this score with the regular opening and closing songs. (On either version, a variation on Hazlehurst's original score can still be heard in the middle of the episode, as Del-Boy tries to sell the load of dodgy suitcases).

On the video and DVD releases, all series 1 episodes have had the original theme tune replaced with the more familiar one. Recent repeats on TV have left this music intact on the episodes "Big Brother" and "Christmas Crackers".

On the video & DVD release of the 1991 Xmas special "Miami Twice", the two episodes have been combined into one, and the second episode has laughter track added (the broadcast episode 2 has no laugher track). This combined version has never been seen on TV.

As of 2004 the BBC which produces the series is re-editing some episodes the remove certain terms which are now considered un-PC. They are doing the same to several other programmes.