Del Boy tops Fawlty in TV sitcom poll

ONLY Fools and Horses has been voted Britain’s best-loved sitcom, taking a third of the votes in a poll.

The show featuring the capers of Del Boy, Rodney and Uncle Albert as Trotters Independent Traders ran from 1981 to 2003.

It beat Fawlty Towers into second place, with Blackadder third.

Dad’s Army, the 1970s favourite featuring Captain Mainwaring’s ragtag group of Home Guard volunteers, finished fourth. Father Ted, with his fellow hapless priests Dougal and Jack and the even odder Mrs Doyle, completed the top five in the poll of 2,000 viewers by Samsung.

‘It’s great to see old classics, such as Only Fools and Horses, still entertaining the nation years after they were made,’ said spokesman Steve Mitchell.

The Inbetweeners’ awkward adventures in pursuit of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll beat Ronnie Barker’s shortlived 70s prison classic Porridge into sixth. And Gavin and Stacey, which was created by James Corden and Ruth Jones, came eighth.

Mrs Brown’s Boys, featuring Ireland’s favourite interfering ‘Mammy’ Agnes Brown, and 90s favourite the Vicar of Dibley – featuring Dawn French’s Liam Gallagher-loving Geraldine Granger completed the top ten.

The Office and Peep Show were among the shows in the top 20.