Only Fools and Horses fans have been discussing an historic Del Boy "blunder" (Image: BBC) Only Fools and Horses fans have been busy discussing a huge Del Boy "blunder" in an episode decades on from its first broadcast. The fifth Christmas special of the BBC sitcom - A Royal Flush - aired in 1986 and saw Rodney (played by Nicholas Lyndhurst) befriend the daughter of a Duke, with big brother Del (Sir David Jason) keen for him to make a good impression. With yet another opportunity to become millionaires, Del acquires tickets for the opera, Carmen, hoping it will help persuade the family of Lady Victoria Marsham-Hales that Rodders is a good suitor.
Del later arrives at their mansion making a fool of himself in front of her dad (the Queen's second cousin) by getting drunk, however. He later admits he did it on purpose to save his brother from "assassination" by the Special Branch [the Met Police's anti-terrorism unit] over his past conviction for cannabis possession. One fan was critical of the episode's inconsistencies, commenting: "This storyline doesn't make sense to me.
"In the episode Del Boy does everything he can for Rodney to impress her. He gets him opera tickets and spends hundreds on getting Rodney kitted out in country hunting gear for his trip up to Berkshire. Del says that her dad has probably told her to marry a scrag to water the old blue blood down and he thinks Rodney is in the frame.
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