Strained Relations Strained Relations "Strained Relations" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, "Only Fools and Horses". It was the second episode of series 4, and was first screened on 28 February 1985. It is a day full of sorrow for Del Boy and Rodney, as their Grandad has died. They have attended Grandad's funeral, along with Mike, Boycie, Trigger, and the North London branch of the Trotter family. Back at the wake in Nelson Mandela House, Rodney is extremely upset to find that Del is cheering himself up by telling his mates lots of jokes. Del and Rodney also meet Grandad's
Boycie 'bit on the side', wfor hom he buys an E-type Jaguar, but it is later crashed into while Del Boy is driving it. In "Dates", Del blackmails Boycie into doing a favour for him by threatening to inform Marlene of an encounter Boycie had with a woman in Sheffield. It is revealed in the episode 'From Prussia With Love' that Boycie spent some time in prison while younger – for unspecified reasons he was convicted of perjury, embezzlement, conspiring to pervert the course of justice, the fraudulent conversion of traveller's cheques and attempting to bribe the Mayor of Lambeth. In