Rodney Trotter a supportive partner in Cassandra, whom he met at a computer training course in "Yuppy Love", and married in 1989. Her father Alan employed Rodney at his company, Parry Print Ltd. (at least until Rodney accidentally quit that job), and, with some financial assistance from Del, he was able to buy a flat and finally move out of Nelson Mandela House. Their marriage suffered when Rodney punched Cassandra's boss, and broke his nose, when returning from Margate in "The Jolly Boys' Outing". They split up in the 1990 Christmas special "Rodney Come Home" (having split up three times in the
Rodney Trotter after his late mother and who was born in the last episode; "Sleepless in Peckham", resulting in a very moving and emotional ending to the show. Rodney's full name is Rodney Charlton Trotter. In "Little Problems" it is revealed that Rodney is named after Rod Taylor and Charlton after Charlton Athletic, his mother's favourite football team. Before the series began, Rodney attended a year's course at art college in Basingstoke but was expelled after three weeks when he was caught smoking cannabis in a fellow student's room. He was fined £300 and given an eighteen-month suspended sentence for possession of