Transmitted:
25.12.1988
Duration: 80 minutes
Viewing Figures: 16.6 million
Uncle
AlbertÂ’s birthday looms on the horizon, and Del Boy books
The NagÂ’s Head for private drinks and a party.
Trigger
surprises everyone by inviting a date he met through an agency.
This arouses DelÂ’s curiosity and soon he too has a date
from the match-making company.
Rodney
takes the initiative by going for the ‘James Dean’
look, though this ends in disaster due to an encounter with
some punks.
Things
look rosy for Del though. His date with Raquel Turner (unemployed
actress) goes swimmingly... until it turns out she is works
as a strippergram twice a week. Despite a small run in with
the police, love conquers all in the end.
Dates
won a BAFTA ‘Best Comedy’ Award in March 1989.
Mike: Why does he keep doing it, eh? Boycie: Gawd knows. I suppose at some time
in his life someone told him he could play the piano.
Mike: Yeah, but I'd like to meet the git who told
him he could sing!
Things
look rosy for Del though. His date with Raquel Turner (unemployed
actress) goes swimmingly... until it turns out she is works
as a strippergram twice a week. Despite a small run in with
the police, love conquers all in the end.
