Transmitted: 25.12.1988 Duration: 80 minutes Viewing Figures: 16.6 million
Uncle Alberts birthday looms on the horizon, and Del Boy books The Nags Head for private drinks and a party.
Trigger surprises everyone by inviting a date he met through an agency. This arouses Dels curiosity and soon he too has a date from the match-making company.
Rodney takes the initiative by going for the James Dean look, though this ends in disaster due to an encounter with some punks.
Things look rosy for Del though. His date with Raquel Turner (unemployed actress) goes swimmingly... until it turns out she is works as a strippergram twice a week. Despite a small run in with the police, love conquers all in the end.
Dates won a BAFTA Best Comedy Award in March 1989.
Mike: Why does he keep doing it, eh? Boycie: Gawd knows. I suppose at some time in his life someone told him he could play the piano. Mike: Yeah, but I'd like to meet the git who told him he could sing!