Additionally, twelve special editions of the show were made; two of these ("Licensed to Drill" and "The Robin Flies at Dawn") have never been broadcast commercially[5][6] and some have only recently been rediscovered.
The following day, Rodney attempts to run away to Hong Kong, although he eventually returns to Peckham after forgetting his passport.
The brothers finally find a different club and meet two young women, who give the Trotters their phone numbers.
To try to make an impression, Del offers to mediate between the two men, especially as Mr Ram says he will pay £4,000 for the return of the statue to his family.
Unluckily for Del, it is all a scam and he loses £2,000 to Vimmal and Ram, a couple of conmen touring the country, using the same trick on local businessmen wherever they go.
Rodney takes Sandra to see a film and then invites her back to Nelson Mandela House, which is bad news for the Trotters, because the flat is full of stolen items.
[22] Rodney, tired of his "two GCEs" getting him little more than a crummy job as a lookout, decides to go it alone and leave Peckham's own multinational conglomerate – Trotters Independent Traders.
By the end of the week, he has already cornered the market in broken lawnmower engines, and, with Mickey Pierce as his financial director, the sky's the limit!
Del's old school enemy, Slater, is back in town hell-bent on revenge and brandishing his police badge while on the trail of a stolen microwave.
Grandad buys a new one, but, when Denzil's wife, Corrine, returns to the flat, she reveals that the canary died before the painting began.
Fortunately, a visit to the family doctor gives Del the news to put the smile back on his face.
In an attempt to earn an easy £60 a week, Del persuades Boycie and Marlene to entrust him with the care of their Great Dane puppy, Duke, while they are on holiday.
Del and Rodney think that the dog may have eaten some reheated pork leftovers for breakfast, and the vet quickly informs them that Duke has probably caught salmonella.
Surprised by Trigger's success with a new computer dating agency, Del joins and meets aspiring actress Raquel Turner and the two quickly hit it off.
A few days later, Uncle Albert's birthday party is held at The Nag's Head, but Del is horrified when the surprise stripper he booked turns out to be Raquel.
The pair eventually make it up and Raquel reveals that she has been offered an acting role in a tour around the Middle East.
Del is about to go to her flat and ask her to stay, but blows his chance when he is arrested after ripping the clothes off a policewoman, believing that she is a stripper booked by Uncle Albert in revenge for his birthday party.
The camel-hair coat is out, and in comes a smart new image: green Mackintosh, mobile phone, Filofax and aluminium briefcase – but the yellow van remains.
It is there that he meets a young woman called Cassandra, who returns his raincoat to him when he mistakes hers for his, Del having written Rodney's name inside the collar.
Del and his friends are horrified to discover that their surprise school reunion has been arranged by Roy Slater, who is back in Peckham having been paroled from Parkhurst six months earlier following the diamond smuggling caper a few years before.
Del, Rodney and Albert soon learn that Slater is due to receive a windfall from more illegal diamonds: a fact that the police and Raquel are unaware of.
They return to Peckham, and their Mandela House flat, and, to make matters a lot worse, they suffer a major blow when Uncle Albert dies and they end up at the wrong funeral.
The sketch sees David Beckham head to Peckham to join Del Boy and Rodney in a greasy spoon café.
[84] David Jason appeared in adverts for Abbey National, Rover and Radio Times as Del Boy.