Transmitted: 28.12.1981 Duration: 35 minutes Viewing Figures: 7.5 million
Rodney has ran out of yuletide cheer, as the annual routing of the Trotter festivities are wearing thin. Burnt turkey, charred Christmas pudding, the same old things on television, and nothing but a book lent to him by Mickey Pierce: Body Language: The Lost Art.
When Grandad puts on his glad rags and heads to the OAPs' party at the community centre, the Trotter boys head to The Monte Carlo Club.
Rodney puts his new-found knowledge of the unspoken language of love to use, but Del Boy has other ideas.
As the brothers argue over whos technique is best, the objects of their affections are whisked away from under their noses.
The Production Manager, Jo Austin, was so unfamiliar with Cockney rhyming slang... she thought the actors were misreading the script in rehearsals.
Del: [To Rodney, in Monte Carlo Club]: I’ve heard your line of patter my son. If they don’t know Adam Ant’s birthday or the Chelsea result it’s goodnight Vienna, innit?
Rodney puts his new-found knowledge of the unspoken language of love to use, but 
