Only Fools and Horses: The Story of Britain's Favourite Comedy (Paperback)

This is a thoroughly-researched, breezily-written, affectionate and yet never dewy-eyed account of how a great TV series was put together. It stands as a worthy monument to its creator - Daily Mail

McCann provides hundreds of interesting details . . . on how the show crept into the British consciousness and captured the British public's imagination with its characters and humour . . . The back stories of the actors and actresses are engrossing and how the theme music came about is a comic tale in itself - Telegraph

What is not to love about this book? It is meticulous, exact, intelligent, affectionate and somehow inspirational. McCann, who has written on Cary Grant and Morecombe & Wise, has delivered his best one yet. - Guardian on Dad’s Army

McCann's impeccably detailed biography is both a celebration and a lament. - The Times on Morecambe and Wise

Never has the sheer awkwardness of the human condition been so comically or beautifully conveyed. - Daily Mail on Frankie Howerd

You will laugh, you will learn and you will undoubtedly, start speaking in a silly voice. - Word Magazine on Spike & Co

This book also makes one look anew at one's favourite scenes . . . McCann has some nice insights into the production techniques that made this the most frenetic farce to have appeared on television. - Telegraph on Fawlty Towers