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
Raquel Martínez Rabanal Raquel Martínez Rabanal Raquel Martínez Rabanal (born 1979) is a journalist and a television and radio hostess from Palencia, Spain. Martinez began working for RNE in Valladolid, where she hosted the show "La memoria del vino" in 2004. In 2006, she began hosting the news for Canal 24 Horas. Martínez was born in 1979 in Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. She graduated from the University of Sevilla with the title of Licentiate in Audiovisual Communication, which she later mastered in the National Radio of Spain. In 2004 she hosted "La memoria del vino", along with Oscar Sacristán, on RNE in