The Frog and the Pussycat Love Me Tomorrow" by The Shirelles plays in the background. The Frog and the Pussycat The Frog and the Pussycat is the third and final episode of the "Rock & Chips" trilogy. It was first screened on 28 April 2011, five days after the death of writer John Sullivan. Picking up some time after "Five Gold Rings" on February 1962, as Del Boy and his friends (Boycie, Trigger, Jumbo, Albie, and Denzil) are having a smoke outside Sir Walter Raleigh Tower, his mother Joan reads her baby son, Rodney, a bedtime story, and regretfully talks about how Del ruined their
Rodney Trotter along a couple of years later after me. Oh no no, not you. You had to wait thirteen years!" In the following episode "Go West Young Man, which was broadcast in September 1981 (and was the second episode of "Only Fools and Horses" ever broadcast), Del Boy states that he (Del) is 35. In "Big Brother" since Rodney had said he was 23, Rodney must already have had his birthday that year with Del still to have his 36th birthday later that year. Therefore Rodney must have been born during 1958. In "As One Door Closes", set in early 1985,