• In To Hull and Back, About half way through the episode when the Trotters have just arrived in Holland, it cuts back to Boycie & Abdul in the Car Office. Abdul is worrying about if they got there ok, and if maybe they have sunk. In response Boycie says “No, no, they’ve got their uncle Albert”. The thing is how do Boycie and Abdul know that they brought Uncle Albert with them, the supposedly last time they saw each other was in the lorry, and as far as they were aware of they were going by Air and only allowing Rodney to go with him. This confirmed at the end when Del explaines to Boycie that they just have “got lost in the middle of the North Sea..”, to their supprise, as well they only thought of the idea at the last minute, and so had limited time to bother telling them.Later when Slater is in his office and is rounding off the suspects on the white flip chart, before Hoskins comes in, it shows a list of the most likely suspects, with: Trigger – Too Daft; and Denzil – Nervous Breakdown, but how on earth does Slater know that Denzil thinks he is suffering a nervous breakdown all of sudden and they are never seen near each other, and there wouldn’t be any reasonable way of anyone, including Del Boy, of wanting to let Slater know of this, because of his on going Diamond activities.
• In To Hull and Back, Del, Rodney and Albert are in the flat after coming back from Holland and Rodney shows Del the £15,000 that he said he picked up when they were running around the table but when we see them running around the table he quite clearly doesn’t pick the 15K up!
• In To Hull and Back, when Rodney spots the Zebrugge to Hull Ferry, he’s steering the boat, Del’s at the front of the ship and Albert’s below deck, yet seconds later Rodney’s at the front of the ship with Del and Albert’s Steering!
• In To Hull and Back, In To Hull and Back, When Rodaney suggests they find the way to Holland by stars Del says “Oh yeah, I saw that in the Onedin Line”. This is an in-joke because the guy who plays Van Cleef later in the episode used to be in the Onedin Line!
• In To Hull and Back, In the flat scene at the end, when Albert tips the 2 Diamonds on to Rodneys hand Rodney says “Whos a pretty Boy?” which was actually Denzils first episode!!! As he was in To Hull And Back i find this very ironic!
• In To Hull and Back, when in Sids cafe Slater says to Del “are you sure you dont want any food?” and Del replies , no, yet a few minutes later you see del eating a bacon sandwich, and Sid asks Del for 32p.
• In To Hull and Back, Near the end when Del arrives back at boycies, Where are they? We assume that it is Boycies car place, but when slater opens the door we see a pub- layout, yet if it is the nags head howcome we have never seen that room since?
• In To Hull and Back, When Albert’s in the Nags head talking to Slater’s mum,she remarks how her Husband never got over Slater joining the Police force and “how bloody glad she was,when they put him away” yet in Slater’s return in “class of 62″ he says his Dad died when he was inside, and he explain’s why they would’nt give him Compassionate parole (the letter Slater’s Mum wrote)
• In To Hull and Back, There is no laughter soundtrack on the entire video.
• In To Hull and Back, When denzil sees the trooters on the start off there sea journey he is sat on the east coast and the boat is traveling north. holland is to the south!.
• In To Hull and Back, when Del and Rodney are in the market trying to sell the watches, Rodney is getting some more out just after Del says “there gonna be a mad rush in a minute” the suitcase opens away from the punters, but when they notice the copper Rodney opens the suitcase facing the punters and Del chucks in the watches from the table.
• In To Hull and Back, when hoskins is paying for his sandwich carefully watch the length of sids fag, go on its true!!.
• In To Hull and Back, Why doesent Rodney get the money that del throws out the window?!?!, he could have recovered alot of it!.
• In To Hull and Back, at the docks when denzil is waiting at the zebara crossing and sees Del you can see the crossing is just a roll been put down you can see the folds.
• In To Hull and Back, It has always bothered me, but how on earth could both Rodney in the 3-wheel van and Denzil in his lorry make it all the way from Peckham to Hull without stopping? Surely at least Rodney would have had to stop for petrol (I doubt the 3-wheel van could make it that far even on a full tank) meaning that he would have lost Denzil on the motorway, or Denzil as a long distance driver would have had to stop for a rest meaning Rodney could have caught up with him. Or could Rodney not have managed to overtake Denzil and get him to stop and let Del out?
• In To Hull and Back, When the trotters, boycie and abdul tried to make a run from slater the moneywas left on the table but later on at the end rodney had the money in his pocket.
• In To Hull and Back, when Denzil drives away at the traffic lights, Del is upset and wonders why Denzil hasn’t let him fill the truck up. Rodney reminds Del of the awful things that Del has done to Denzil in the past 1.Ruined his Wedding reception (“Who’s a pretty boy?”) 2.Broken up his marriage to Corrine (she couldn’t appear anymore because the lady who played ‘Corrine’ died) 3.Flooded his kitchen (“Who’s a pretty boy?”again) and 4.Stole his £2,000 redundancy money (“As one door closes”).
• In To Hull and Back, Slater is banged up for diamond smuggling at the end, this is nicely linked up in “The class of ’62″ 5 years later when Slater is out of prison he still has possession of some of the diamonds and this story line links well with the previous one.
• In To Hull and Back, Jeff Stevenson plays PC Parker, but comes back as the comedian in “Little Problems”.
• In To Hull and Back, keep an eye on the length of Sid’s cigarette while young Terry Hoskins is ‘paying’ for his breakfast.
• In To Hull and Back, At the end of the episode before Del chucks the money off the balcony Rodney tells Del they should invest it, a fact which he later denies in the final scene.
• In To Hull and Back, In the scene where Slater and his henchmen are checking the lorries for thieves Rodney is seen to be observing very clearly what is going. Why didn’t Slater and his gang spot the yellow van ? Rodney responds facially when Slater homes in on Denzil’s lorry so how on earth did Slater miss it ! To top it all in the next scene Slater says he went looking for Del’s van and it was missing!
• In To Hull and Back, In the last scene has Del, Rodney and Albert in their flat. For once, we see the wall behind the TV. Notice a fireplace on the wall. However, in Time On Our Hands, we again see the wall behind the TV, but there is no fireplace this time!
• In To Hull and Back, When Del-Boy rents the boat it is called INGE but when Denzil sees the boat from the cliff- top the name on the side of the boat is now called LINKE!
• In To Hull and Back, near the end Rodney does not pick up the money from the table, he just walks out the room without going near it.

Did You Know?

This episode is shot entirely on film and also had no laughter track.

• In The Frogs Legacy, When Del offers Mr Jahan a drink. Mr Jahan replies by insisting on a non- alcoholic because of his religion presumely a Muslim. Later in the scene Mr Jahan is seen drinking beer ( a alcoholic drink ). The drink brought by Del.
• In The Frogs Legacy, when Renee approaches Boycie, he says “Who the bloody hell is this woman?”, but later on he says he remembers her from years back.
• In The Frogs Legacy, At Triggers niece’s wedding, you can see that Mike is standing with a tea towel drying glasses. Surely as he has been asked a guest he wouldn’t be doing the serving or washing up!
• In The Frogs Legacy, In the frogs legacy they are talking to mike trying to get him to by a computer that dont work. The leaflet they are holding doesn’t have any writing on it.
• In The Frogs Legacy, when Del asks Mr Jahan to take a seat to discuss the computer, look carefully at Del’s cigar. You will notice David Jason accidentally drop some ash on to his coat. Watch the actor playing Mr Jahan gently smile when this happens.
• In The Frogs Legacy, when Del and Rodney are at the bar trying to sell a computer to Mike, Del is telling Mike that it ‘processes all your data’ while reading from the back of the leaflet he is holding, but when the camera moves you clearly see the leaflet is blank.
• In The Frogs Legacy, When Boycie arrives in the market he says to Del and Trigger “Another fine day in Gotham City”. Maybe he knew Del and Rodders led a secret double life as No VATman and the Boy Plonker (as revealed in Heroes & Villians)!
• In The Frogs Legacy, when they walk through the graveyard near the end of the episode, notice that the angle of the sun casts a shadow in the total opposite direction to the scene when Rodney joins Del on the beach. Clearly the shots show the sun in totally different areas of the sky.
• In The Frogs Legacy, Albert is meant to be smoking a pipe while in the van, just before Del reveals the whereabouts of the lost bullion, but the pipe doesn’t seem to be there. There’s no smoke in the van, only on the close-ups of Rodney show smoke.One reason may be Buster Merryfield doesn’t smoke in real life.
• In The Frogs Legacy, While Del and Mr Jahan chat in the pub about a job for Rodney, one scene he has a glass then it disappears and then reappears again.

Did You Know?

Freddie Robdal is introduced to us in this episode which acts as a loose end until Sleepless in Peckham

Apparently Chris Baker was paid £200 for the use of his Ford Cortina Mark II in this episode. Despite two days filming he was only featured in the show for ‘a few seconds’.

Most of the outside filming took place in Ipswich.

On Location

David Jason during filming of the market scene.

Crowd watching the market filming.

Dates Script

Did You Know?

Dates is John Sullivans favourite episode

Dates won a BAFTA ‘Best Comedy’ Award in March 1989.

On Location

A different view of the stunt being filmed.

It is in fact filmed around Brabazon Road in Filton, Bristol.  The scene where Rodney jumps a red light and the police car hits another car is SHELLARD ROAD, Filton, BS34 7LU and the scenes where Rodney drives past Trigger sweeping leaves and where he almost hits the lads in the red car is Roycroft Road which adjoins Shellard Road.  You can see a very yellow house in the background of these sceness which in reality makes it a VERY short car chase!!!

I live in Shellard Road and although the old grey houses in the background of these scenes have now been replaced with new houses, the lay-by (parking spaces) in which Rodney drives through some road-cones are still here.  It is definitely not Richmond, Surrey like your site states.

The dual-carriageway Rodney and Nerys drive down is the A4174 which is about 50metres away from my house at the end of Shellard Road.

I havent figured out where the railway bridge is yet but I guarantee it wont be far away.  It doesnt seem the producers went very far to make these scenes and there is a railway line nearby too.

I will email you a photo soon if you wish so you can add it to your site.

By Andy George

PS, you can see all the roads in the map below. (and even the railway line!)

Dates Location

This road appears in Dates during the chase by the gang of “punks” in the middle of the episode. It’s actually Talbot Road, Iseworth, Richmond. The first image shows the bump that is seen when Rodney flies over the road being chased, the scound is where the roadworks were seen during the scene.

The scene with Del and the computer dating agency is 46 Old Market Street, Bristol.

This is the Goose at the Flyer pub and was used as the Nags Head in Dates. Interestingly 2 pubs were used in that episode. This one is found on Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol.

This is the Police Station in Dates when Del’s arrested and can be found in Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol.

The Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, is where Del take Raquel for there first meeting and slap-up meal.

Trigger goes for Italian with his date at 187 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol.

Jolly Boys Outing Script

Did You Know?

John Sullivans sister-in-law Penny, was the inspiration behind this script as she told him of an event her father used to go on each year, called “The Jolly Boys Outing”.

Rodney seems to have it all, a beautiful wife, a cushy job at the father-in-law’s printing company, and a lovely home. Del is very happy too, Raquel has agreed to live with him having returned from a theatre tour of America’s east coast.

All is not well between Rodney and Cassandra, however. Cassie has become a workaholic, and Rodney cannot understand why she wants to attend work functions instead of cooking his tea.

Del, worried for his brother’s happiness (and the loss of cheap printing perks through Rodney’s job) plays cupid. Rodney consequently finds himself homeless for the third time in 18 months.

Episode Observations

• In Rodney Come Home, In the scene where Del is walking to Cassie’s flat, when he walks out of the van, you can see a building behind saying “Agricultural Machinery”. This is Peckham, which is only 3 miles from Central London, and the nearest field is 10 miles away. Surely there wouldnt be a tractor factory in the middle of South London.
• In Rodney Come Home, when uncle Albert goes to pore himself a drink, Raquel walks in and uncle says he his looking for his slippers… well the drink he pours changes when the cameras look back at the drink… the amount goes from a little bit to half a glass.
• In Rodney Come Home, On the back of the video case, there are two pictures, the top one is from Fatal Extraction and on the back of Fatal Extraction there is a picture from Rodney Come Home
• In Rodney Come Home, When Cassandra throws Rodney out telling him to find one of these many women who would want him, it shows him storming to the garage. He comes flying out on his bicycle but leaves the well illuminated garage wide open to thieves!
• In Rodney Come Home, Del Boy has aged quite quickly since The Jolly Boys Outing 1 year before. In just 1 year his sideburns, and his hair at the front has gone grey and his face looks a lot older than it did in The Jolly Boys Outing, when he had not one grey hair on his head and his face looked like a child’s.
• In Rodney come home, there is a part were del boy has told albert to look horrified with rodney for going to the flicks with a girl called Tanya. Albert keeps mistiming his horrified expresions, and if you look closely you can see Del boy unable to keep a straight face, even when he`s telling Albert off.
• In Rodney Come Home, When Albert is about to pour a brandy on the sly, he is stopped having poured only a tiny drop when Raquel walks in and he claims that he’s looking for his slippers. On the next shot of the table the glass is nearly two thirds full, a lot more than he actually poured.
• In Rodney Come Home, Del who comes storming in , when the door slams shut the dividing ‘wall’ between the entrance hall and the kitchen nearly falls over! A proper wall surely wouldn’t do that!
• In Rodney Come Home, When Albert helps himself to Del’s brandy, he is startled by Raquel after pouring just a tiny drop, and starts pretending he is looking for his slippers. When Raquel enters the room, the brandy glass is suddenly half full!
• In Rodney Come Home, At the beginning of this episode, Del and uncle Albert are arguing on the escalator in a shopping centre, but as they come into view neither of them seem to be talking at all as their lips aren’t moving.
• In Rodney Come Home, When Rodney leaves his flat after having quarrelled with Cassandra, he has a bottle of ketchup in his bag. Outside his garage he throws the bag onto the ground with such force that the bottle would normally have been smashed. But when he arrives at Del’s flat, he gets it out of the bag unbroken.

At Damien Trotter’s christening (much to Rodney’s horror), Del strikes a cushdy deal with the Vicar to sell pre-blessed wine around the country.

Rodney is living with Del and Albert on week days, and with Cassandra at weekends, on the advice of a Relate councillor.

Del organises a ‘two for one’ holiday for the Trotter clan, knowing full well that Cassandra will not be able to make it. When the brothers arrive in Miami, the family of mafioso boss Vincenzo Ochetti spot Del – who bears a striking resemblance to their Don.

Soon realising they are not simply being shown American hospitality, Del and Rodney flee… aided and abetted by Boycie, Marlene and their baby Tyler who are also in the states.

Upon a safe return to Peckham, they find dozens of crates of wine, which were deemed unfit for Holy Communion.

Episode Observation

• In Miami Twice (part 1), when Del asks Rodney if he is still going to Miami after Cassandra says no, Rodney replies “possibly” as he walks off, you can see a srudio light blurrs the camera(YOU CAN SEE THE BLUR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN AT THE TOP).
• In Miami Twice (part 1), the windows inside the church don’t match the windows outside the church, this can be seen when Del walks into the church after Mike reminds him about paying for the christening do at the pub.
• In Miami Twice (part 1), Outside the church where Damien is christened,  Rodney seems to have a very good tan before he goes to Miami (part 2).
• In Miami Twice (part 1), Rodney and Cassandra are seen in the beer garden of the Nags Head with benchs soft lights and Patio.Look at the carpark in Dates when the police pull up to the rear of the nags head it looks a little differant!
• In Miami Twice (part 1), Outside the pub after the Christening, Cassie tells Rodders that she is not dressing up as a victorian Maid for anyone – by the time we get round to Heroes and Villains that is precisely what she has done after Damian bought her bank !

Did You Know?

At Damien Trotter’s christening (much to Rodney’s horror), Del strikes a cushdy deal with the Vicar to sell pre-blessed wine around the country.

Rodney is living with Del and Albert on week days, and with Cassandra at weekends, on the advice of a Relate councillor.

Del organises a ‘two for one’ holiday for the Trotter clan, knowing full well that Cassandra will not be able to make it. When the brothers arrive in Miami, the family of mafioso boss Vincenzo Ochetti spot Del – who bears a striking resemblance to their Don.

Soon realising they are not simply being shown American hospitality, Del and Rodney flee… aided and abetted by Boycie, Marlene and their baby Tyler who are also in the states.

Upon a safe return to Peckham, they find dozens of crates of wine, which were deemed unfit for Holy Communion.

Episode Observations

Miami Twice - oh to be in England Script