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: 聭Body Language: The Lost Art.聮
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 who聮s 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鈥檝e heard your
line of patter my son. If they don鈥檛 know Adam Ant鈥檚
birthday or the Chelsea result it鈥檚 goodnight Vienna,
innit?
Rodney
puts his new-found knowledge of the unspoken language of love
to use, but 
