of war, as he temporarily separated from his wife and had an affair with Trigger's grandmother Alice while her husband Arthur was still fighting. During the episode "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle," Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield) shows Del a photograph of Grandad during the war. When Del asks why Grandad is wearing a vest and plimsolls, Albert answers 'Well, he'd just deserted.' After the war, Grandad had various short-term jobs before he retired. His wife, who apparently worked as a charlady in these later years, died in the early 1960s, when Rodney was still young. It is revealed in "Tea For Three" by Grandad's younger brother Albert, that he and Albert fell out over Albert's later wife, Ada. Albert tells Rodney that while walking home from a nightclub together, he and Grandad had a fight, and never spoke to each other again after that. Despite this, in the episode "Miami Twice", Albert mentions that he married Ada before enlisting to fight in World War II, and after the war, as revealed in "Hole in One", he and Grandad would often pull schemes on local pubs by having Albert fall down cellar stairs without hurting himself and claiming compensation whenever they were short of money. Albert also mentions that during their youth, Grandad often looked after him, and it was for this reason that Albert regretted their falling out, attended Grandad's funeral, and even tried to swindle the Nag's Head Brewery in order to raise money to pay for Grandad's gravestone. In the programme The character of Grandad was written out of the original show following the death of the actor Lennard Pearce but is a main character (frequently addressed as "Ted") in the 2010-2011 prequel series Rock & Chips. Set in 1960, Grandad has separated from his wife Vi, and is unemployed and subsequently homeless after she finds out about his affair with Alice Ball. Grandad then moves in with his son Reg. The Trotters are at that time squeezed into a two-up two-down terraced house and Grandad is forced to share a bedroom with his grandson Del. He appears to enjoy a close relationship with his family and remains with them when they move to their new council flat in Nelson Mandela House (which was then known as the "Sir Walter Raleigh House"). Grandad is seen in the first series of Only Fools and Horses. Grandad is by