Five Gold Rings Five Gold Rings Five Gold Rings is the second episode of the "Rock & Chips" trilogy and the series' first and only Christmas Special. It was first aired on December 29, 2010. A few weeks following the birth of Rodney, Del Boy and the rest of his gang (Boycie, Trigger, Jumbo, Albie and Denzil) have left school. Del and Jumbo now work as market traders selling American records, while Boycie works as a cleaner for a Spanish second hand car dealer, Alberto Balsam. Del's mother, Joan, had been fired from the cinema following her pregnancy, but is now applying to
Del Boy Boy at 15, before Rodney has been born. This is confirmed when the teacher complains about the boys having to stay at school for another year because of a change in the law. (The school leaving age in the UK was raised to 16 in 1972.) This, however, is inconsistent with "Big Brother" (Series 1, 1981), when Del states that he is 13 years older than Rodney. If this were so, Del should have been 12 or 13 in "Rock & Chips". The 2015 novel "He Who Dares..." confirms that Del was born on 10 December 1945. Del Boy works