Dates (Only Fools and Horses) Dates (Only Fools and Horses) "Dates" is the seventh Christmas special episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses", first broadcast on 25 December 1988. In the episode, Del Boy joins a dating agency and meets Raquel. Rodney also goes on a date, with Nag's Head barmaid Nerys. The Trotters have been earning a lot of money recently, and Uncle Albert's birthday is approaching, which Del Boy and Rodney pretend to have forgotten. Meanwhile, after seeing a girl Trigger has met through a local dating agency, Del also decides to sign up. Styling himself "Derek Duvall", managing director of
The Funny Side of Christmas Humphrey Appleby, Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, and Derek Fowlds as Bernard Woolley "Christmas Trees" is the title of this vignette, in which Del Boy is determined to sell 149 telescopic Christmas trees. Maybe an endorsement from the Church of England would help? "Christmas Trees" was written by John Sullivan, and directed and produced by Ray Butt. Cast: David Jason as Del, Nicholas Lyndhurst as Rodney, Lennard Pearce as Grandad, Jim Pennington as the vicar, and Roy Heather as Sid Cast: Tracey Ullman, Lenny Henry, and David Copperfield Norman, Foggy, and Compo get together on Christmas Day, but Norman is