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{{Infobox television episode
| series = [[Only Fools and Horses]]
| image = Only Fools Wanted.jpg
| image_size = 250
| caption =
| series_no = 3
| episode = 6
| writer = [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]]
| director = [[Ray Butt]]
| producer = Ray Butt
| airdate = {{Start date|1983|12|15|df=yes}}
| length = 29:47 (DVD) / 29:49 (iTunes)
| prev = [[May the Force Be with You (Only Fools and Horses)|May the Force Be with You]]
| next = [[Who's a Pretty Boy?]]
| episode_list = List of Only Fools and Horses episodes
}}
"'''Wanted'''" is an episode of the [[BBC]] [[sitcom]], ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]''. It was the sixth episode of series 3, and was first broadcast on 15 December 1983. In the episode, after an incident with a local woman, [[Del Boy]] pretends that [[Rodney Trotter|Rodney]] had been dubbed the 'Peckham pouncer' and is being hunted by the police, so Rodney goes on the run.

==Synopsis==
As [[Rodney Trotter]] walks home after an evening at ''The Nag's Head'', he meets a drunken woman who is waiting for a bus. When he tries to stop her falling over, the woman hysterically accuses Rodney of touching her. Rodney tries to defuse the situation by saying that he is a doctor, then quickly runs off into the night, after the woman screams "[[Rape]]!"

The next morning at Nelson Mandela House, Rodney, worried and annoyed, confides to [[Del Boy]] and [[Grandad (Only Fools and Horses)|Grandad]] about the incident. When Rodney describes her, Del realises he knows the woman and sees an attempt to tease his younger brother. Del tells Rodney that the police dubbed him "The Peckham Pouncer", and that vigilantes were seeking him. When Rodney leaves the room and goes back to bed, Del explains to Grandad that Rodney had just met Blossom, a [[Mental disorder|mentally ill]] hospital patient who is well known to the police for falsely accusing people of attacking her. Grandad asks why he does not tell Rodney; Del plans to keep the deception going for a joke, though Grandad warns him to be careful not to let it spiral out of control.

That afternoon, back at the Nag's Head, Del tells [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]] and [[Boycie]] about Rodney meeting Blossom, as well as Trigger mentioning how his [[tomboy]] cousin Marilyn was once accosted by Blossom. Then, Grandad calls Del with bad news: Rodney has gone on the run, has taken all the tinned food from the cupboard, and is hiding in a secret place. Del decides to go out and look for him.

The next morning, an exhausted Del returns home after having searched all over London for Rodney to no success. Grandad lambastes Del for not telling Rodney that it was a joke sooner. Del then starts to detect a strange smell. Grandad explains that it had been in the flats since last night, and it is coming from the [[Ventilation (architecture)|ventilation]] shaft. Del deduces that Rodney is hiding in the tank room, where he is smoking [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]].

Del finds Rodney there, and after offering food and whiskey, is honest and tells him about the joke and Blossom's past. Del promises to make it up to Rodney by taking him out for a big meal after giving him a shower. As Del takes a sip of scotch with water from a tap on one of the tanks, Rodney hints that he had urinated in the tank while in hiding.

==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]]
|-
| [[Roger Lloyd-Pack]]
| [[Trigger (Only Fools and Horses)|Trigger]]
|-
| [[John Challis]]
| [[Boycie]]
|-
| Toni Palmer
| Blossom
|-
| [[Patrick Murray (actor)|Patrick Murray]]
| Mickey Pearce
|-
| Michele Winstanley
| Karen (barmaid)
|}

==Episode concept==
* The idea for the script was based on a real life incident that happened to one of [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]]'s friends, even including a woman named "Blossom".

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{BBC episode|id=p00bgjhf}}
* {{IMDb episode|0666590}}

{{Only Fools and Horses episodes}}

[[Category:1983 British television episodes]]
[[Category:Only Fools and Horses (series 3) episodes]]

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