You’d be surprised at the scale of Bristol’s fame. Over the last couple of decades, many of its streets, parks and monuments have been immortalised in popular TV programmes and films, from old classics like Only Fools And Horses to modern hits like Skins. The locations within Bristol have all been central to the shows and their storylines and while they’re not going to change anyone’s lives, it does make living here a tiny bit more exciting!

Now, of course, we all know Bristol is the home for all things wildlife and every nature documentary worth its salt has changed hands in the offices along Whiteladies Road at some point, and is also the home of popular TV incarnations like Wallace and Gromit, Animal Magic and Noel’s evil boxes in Deal or No Deal, but here we want to talk about and re-live the scenes that were actually filmed in the streets of Bristol.

The city’s had its fair share of dramas and sitcoms set in it over the years - including Skins, Afterlife, Being Human, Mistresses, Holby City, Shoestring, House of Eliott and Teachers, not to mention the longest running medical drama in the history of the world, Casualty, and a handful of films including The Truth About Love and Starter For 10 - but also, you might not know that The Young Ones, Only Fools And Horses and the film, These Foolish Things, although set in the mean streets of London, had the majority of their external shots filmed here!

You’ve enjoyed the shows from the comfort of your sofa but now it is time to un-stick yourself from those bum-shaped creases and re-live the magic in real time! Here is our guide then, to the top ten scenes from the screen to re-create in the streets of Bristol:

1 - The very first scene of the third series of tearaway teen-drama, Skins, featured a devilishly hansom young man skateboarding at breakneck speed down our very own Park Street, dodging buses, community policemen, dog todds and Harry Enfield along the way. What could be more fun (or suicidal) to re-enact?

2 - Cult, alternative, 1980s BBC comedy, The Young Ones, followed the surreal adventures of anarchic students Rick, Vyvyan, Neil and Mike as they avoided going to the fictional Scumbag College. Every episode would focus around their student house and it still looks exactly the same as it did on the corner of Codrington Road and Broadway Road in Redland. Why not try and re-create one of the scenes there by crucifying a hippy, driving past in a tank, dropping a bomb on it or submerging the entire building underwater?

3 - Early Noughties comedy-drama, Teachers, followed the staff room goings on of the fictional Summerdown School (filmed at schools in Knowle West and Lockleaze) and every episode would end with the teachers bantering in the local pub. What could be more fun than piling into the boozers in which these scenes were filmed, The Brunel in Bedminster and The Bristol County Sports Club on Colston Street, and pretending to be Kurt and Brian playing ‘Would You Rather…’?

4 - In wheeler-dealer classic, Only Fools And Horses, do you find the Trotters’ residence of Nelson Mandela House oddly familiar? That’s because it was filmed outside Whitemead House in Southville. Get yourself a yellow Robin Reliant, try and flog dodgy goods out the back and Bob’s your uncle! Mange tout Rodney! Mange tout!

5 - Starter For 10, the 2006 movie, saw James McAvoy at his floppy haired best as he floundered about with girls at Bristol University. Who needs to rent it though when you can just stick on a wig, don a Scottish accent and run up and down Royal York Crescent, Clifton, with your limbs flailing about?

6 - Casualty has been about for so long and filmed in so many locations in Bristol that simply stubbing your toe on a corner of pavement or walking into a lamppost would accurate re-create one of the medical drama’s infinite scenes. In fact, you’ve probably unknowingly already been an extra just from being outside, at all. Everyone else has been it seems.

7 - Another feature of Teachers was how every episode would start by following each of the staff’s commute to school. Most fun to watch (and therefore re-enact) was Simon’s as he raced his way all over Bristol taking in such sights as the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Colston Street and Queen’s Square. But be warned – his routes weren’t always the most economical and if you do intend to re-enact them, it’s about a 20 mile round trip.

8 - Again re-live the madness of The Young Ones by popping into their local boozer, The Kebab And Calculator, for a pint where Vyvyan’s mum worked, alternatively known as Westbury Park Tavern, Northumbria Drive, Redland/Henleaze.

9 - Thanks to popular BBC horror-drama Being Human, it’s Halloween all year round in Totterdown. Inside a run-down, pink, terraced house on the corner of Winsor Terrace and Henry Street live a strange trilogy of housemates; a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire. Go trick or treating at your peril…

10 - The very best Bristol scene to recreate though has to be the iconic one from the ‘Heroes and Villains’ episode of Only Fools And Horses when Rodney and Del Boy were late for a party and, dressed up as Batman and Robin, ran down Penn Street in Broadmead and through Stokes Croft unwittingly fighting crime!

Jamie Skey and Matt Whittle