Awards and Honours
Only Fools and Horses won the BAFTA award for best comedy series in 1986, 1989 and 1997, as well as the RTS best comedy award in 1997, best sitcom at the 1990 British Comedy Awards, and two Television and Radio Industries Club Awards for comedy programme of the year in 1984 and 1997. Sullivan won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain comedy award for the 1996 Only Fools and Horses Christmas trilogy and another from the Heritage Foundation in 2001.
In the 2005 New Year Honours, Sullivan was awarded an OBE for services to drama. On 2 September 2008, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at Goldsmiths, University of London.
On 22 July 2012 a blue plaque was unveiled by Sir David Jason at Teddington Studios, Middlesex, England, to celebrate Sullivan's contibution to British comedy. Nicholas Lyndhurst and John Challis also attended among other cast members.
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