Only Fools and Horses superhero fancy dress episode named best TV moment

The Only Fools and Horses special which saw Del and Rodney sport superhero fancy dress has been voted the most memorable Christmas TV moment ever.

According to a poll by TV channel Gold, 50 per cent of Brits named the scenes broadcast in 1996 as their favourite festive escapade of all-time, beating Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers into second place.

The episode, entitled Heroes and Villains, involved the hapless Trotters being invited to what they thought was a costume party.

Del sported a Batman fancy dress outfit while Rodney became his sidekick Robin - but they were left red-faced after bursting in to the party, only to find that it was a funeral wake.

Viewers also mentioned the scene in which the brothers had to run through the fog, inadvertently foiling a mugger, as particularly special.

Other TV favourites to make the poll included the 1996 Father Ted episode when the priests ended up lost in a department store's lingerie section and the Vicar of Dibley special from the same year in which Dawn French's character worked her way through four Christmas dinners.