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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Only Fools and Horses]]
| image = Only Fools Diamonds.jpg
| image_size = 250
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| episode = 2<br>(Christmas Special)
| writer = [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]]
| director = [[Ray Butt]]
| producer = Ray Butt
| airdate = {{Start date|1982|12|30|df=yes}}
| length = 30 minutes
| prev = [[A Touch of Glass]]
| next = [[Homesick (Only Fools and Horses)|Homesick]]
| episode_list = List of Only Fools and Horses episodes
}}
"'''Diamonds Are for Heather'''" is the second [[Christmas]] special episode of the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]], ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. It was first broadcast on 30 December 1982, five days after Christmas. In the episode, Del goes out with Heather, a single mother with a son.

==Synopsis==
On a November evening at ''The Nag's Head'', [[Del Boy]] is feeling miserable due to his [[loneliness]] and lack of a [[Nuclear family|family]]. He cheers himself up by ordering a [[mariachi]] band to sing "[[Old Shep]]". He also meets an attractive woman named Heather, who is drinking alone at the bar. Del charms her and they walk home together.

When he arrives at her flat, Del discovers that Heather has a son named Darren, aged three and a half, and a husband named Vic, who has not returned since joining a very long queue at the [[Jobcentre Plus|Job Centre]] 18 months earlier.

Over the next six weeks, Del and Heather's romance blossoms, Del forms a bond with Darren, and with the relationship strengthening, Del decides to propose to Heather, even if it means leaving [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] and [[Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)|Grandad]].

However, at a candle-lit curry dinner, Heather refuses Del's proposal, because her husband Vic wrote to her one-week earlier and is now living in [[Southampton]], working as a department store Father Christmas. He also wants to give his marriage with Heather another go by asking her and Darren to move in with him. Heather says she never knew Del had fallen in love with her and instead thinks of him as a brother. Heather then says goodbye to Del, who manages to cheer himself up by paying some carol singers to sing "Old Shep".

==Episode cast==
{| class="wikitable"
! Actor
! Role
|-
| [[David Jason]]
| [[Del Boy|Derek Trotter]]
|-
| [[Nicholas Lyndhurst]]
| [[Rodney Trotter]]
|-
| [[Lennard Pearce]]
| [[Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)|Grandad Trotter]]
|-
| [[Rosalind Lloyd]]
| Heather
|-
| [[Roger Brierley]]
| Brian
|-
| [[John Moreno]]
| Enrico
|-
| Dev Sagoo
| Waiter
|-
|George Kish
|Choir lead singer
|-
|[[The Fred Tomlinson Singers]]
|Carol singers
|-
|Daniel Jones
|Darren
|-
|Julie La Rousse
|Julie (barmaid)
|}

==Episode concept==
* The idea for the script was to demonstrate Del's love for children, and that he really could be a family man if he put his mind to it.<ref>[http://www.ofah.net/immediacy-233 Did You Know?] ofah.net</ref>

==Music==
* '''[[Fat Larry's Band]]''': "[[Zoom (Fat Larry's Band song)|Zoom]]"

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{BBC episode|id=p00bghf6}}
*{{IMDb episode|0666545}}

{{Only Fools and Horses episodes}}

[[Category:1982 British television episodes]]
[[Category:British Christmas television episodes]]
[[Category:Only Fools and Horses special episodes]]

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