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• When originally shown in the UK. The whole of the first series had the saxophone theme music. Not just the first episode as shown above.
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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