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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Only Fools and Horses]]
| caption =
| series_no =
| episode = 7<br>(Christmas Special)
| writer = [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]]
| director = [[Tony Dow (director)|Tony Dow]]
| producer = [[Gareth Gwenlan]]
| airdate = {{Start date|1988|12|25|df=yes}}
| length = 79 minutes
* 1:19:47 (DVD)
* 1:19:53 (iTunes)
| prev = [[The Frog's Legacy]]
| next = [[Yuppy Love]]
| episode_list = List of Only Fools and Horses episodes
}}
"'''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 Turner|Raquel]]. [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] also goes on a date, with Nag's Head barmaid Nerys.

==Synopsis==
The Trotters have been earning a lot of money recently, and [[Uncle Albert]]'s birthday is upcoming, which [[Del Boy]] and [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] pretend to have forgotten. Meanwhile, after seeing a girl [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]] has met through a local [[dating agency]], Del also decides to sign up. Styling himself "Derek Duvall", [[Chief executive officer|managing director]] of a successful import and export business, he meets a struggling actress named [[Raquel Turner]]. The two form a bond and agree to meet again. Del asks Raquel to join him at Albert's birthday party, but she declines, saying she has to attend an acting class.

Rodney also arranges a date, with ''Nag's Head'' [[Bartender|barmaid]], "Nervous" Nerys. He is convinced by Mickey and Jevon that Nerys likes [[Bad boy archetype|"macho" men]]. Wearing a leather jacket and acting aloof, he goes driving with Nerys. They are followed by a gang of [[Punk subculture|punks]], which leads to a high-speed car chase. They race past two police officers at temporary traffic signals. The officers vow to apprehend the driver of the 'yellow, three-wheeled van'.

As a surprise for Albert's party, Del has hired a [[Striptease|stripper]], who turns out to be Raquel. The two recognise each other and, hurt, Del storms out of the [[Public house|pub]] before telling Raquel he no longer wants to see her but soon regrets his actions. Raquel tells him that she has received an offer to work in the [[Middle East]], and that if he wants her to stay, he should visit her before the flight leaves. Del plans to meet her, but while at the ''Nag's Head'' he is approached by the two police officers still looking for the owner of the yellow van. Believing the female officer to be another stripper hired by Albert as a joke, Del rips her blouse off and is arrested. Dispirited, Raquel leaves for the Middle East just as Del Boy is taken into custody.

== Episode cast ==
{|
| valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
!Actor
!Role
|-
|[[David Jason]]
|[[Del Boy|Derek Trotter]]
|-
|[[Nicholas Lyndhurst]]
|[[Rodney Trotter]]
|-
|[[Buster Merryfield]]
|[[Uncle Albert|Albert Trotter]]
|-
|[[Tessa Peake-Jones]]
|[[Raquel Turner]]
|-
|[[John Challis]]
|[[Boycie]]
|-
|[[Roger Lloyd-Pack]]
|[[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]]
|-
|[[Kenneth MacDonald (English actor)|Kenneth MacDonald]]
|[[Mike Fisher (Only Fools and Horses)|Mike Fisher]]
|-
|[[Sue Holderness]]
|Marlene
|-
|[[Patrick Murray (actor)|Patrick Murray]]
|Mickey Pearce
|-
|[[Roy Heather]]
|Sid
|}
| width="50" | 
| valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
!Actor
!Role
|-
|Leslie Rogers
|Policeman
|-
|[[Andrée Bernard|Andrée Barnard]]
|Nerys (barmaid)
|-
|Martin Cochrane
|Naval Officer
|-
|[[Nicholas Courtney]]
|Charles
|-
|[[Tony Marshall (actor)|Tony Marshall]]
|Chris
|-
|Maggie Norris
|Policewoman
|-
|Chris Stanton
|Technomatch agent
|-
|Jean Warren
|Sonia the prostitute
|-
|[[Steven Woodcock]]
|Jevon
|}
|}

==First appearances==
*[[Tessa Peake-Jones]] as [[Raquel Turner]]

==External links==
*{{BBC episode|id=p00bgpg6}}
*{{IMDb episode|0666544}}

{{Only Fools and Horses episodes}}

[[Category:1988 British television episodes]]
[[Category:British Christmas television episodes]]
[[Category:Only Fools and Horses special episodes]]

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