Dates (Only Fools and Horses) while at the "Nag's Head" he is approached by the two police officers still searching for the owner of the yellow van. Believing the female officer to be another stripper hired by Albert, Del rips her blouse off and is arrested. Heartbroken, Raquel leaves for the Middle East just as Del Boy is taken into custody. 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,
Raquel Watts of the show's best-loved characters in the 1990s." Raquel had a celebrity fan in Cliff Richard, who admitted in the 2000 documentary "40 Years on Coronation Street" that he once dreamed of being cast in a walk-on role, rescuing Raquel from Curly and marrying her himself. Raquel has become a notable facet of Lancashire's career. In 2001, "The Guardian" Gareth McLean stated that while she has avoided being typecast, Raquel "may be the role for which she is best known". Fellow "Guardian" writer Paul Flynn observed in 2004 that Lancashire is "assured her place in the national psyche" because of