“JUST A LITTLE CAMEO, SON”
Meet the Only Fools & Horses bit-part player
Part one (series 1-3)
You don’t get to be as, err, ‘successful’ as Delboy without knowing the right people.
Say what you like about Del (and many people do) but a Malibu sunset isn’t the only thing he knows how to make, he’s also a dab hand at finding contacts in all areas of the social spectrum, Whether it be the market boys, stone rich Indians or bent coppers, Delboys got his 27 caret gold covered fingers in many pies.
Not only that but as both Del and Rodney can attest, the course of true love never runs smooth, girlfriends have come and gone and in the early years especially, despite a splash of brute for Del and a suit from an almost new shop from Rodney, they go through more girls than Cheltenham Ladies collage.
Over the course of 22 years many have been called but few have been chosen making only one brief but memorable appearance.
Whether they were tucked up, beat up, loved up or just plain hooky here we celebrate the Only Fools & Horses ‘one episode wonders’
“New man in the area, stone rich, looking for business opportunities”
NAME: Vimel Malik & Mr Rahm
EPISODE: Cash & Curry (series 1)
According to Del boy at the start of ‘Cash & Curry’ Vimel Malik is stone rich and new to the area, When in fact he is new to every area because he, along with his friend Malik and their flunky Oddjob, is a travelling con man.
When they both separately spin Del a yarn about a mystical Indian statue and centuries of injustice, instead of seeing an opportunity to help two family’s at war, Derek see pound signs and set’s about tucking up the two.
Needing to raise two thousand smackeroonies Del sells just about everything the family owns (and a few items they don’t) such as his prized vexhall vollox (the only time we see the motor) & possibly Rodney’s leather jacket.
In what would become a rarity, Malik & Rahm actually get one up on Delboy in this episode, leaving Peckham with his £2000.
All of the items (minus the motor) would return for the next episode, leading one to believe Del went straight into another more successful plan and managed to get the money together to buy his items back.
BEST LINE: “Mr Trotter, if the Lord Krishner himself couldn’t help me, I really don’t think Esther Rantzen stand’s much chance, do you, Mr Trotter”? Rodney suggestion of contacting ‘That’s Life’ to settle an age old Indian dispute doesn’t go down well.
I always wondered if Vimel and Mr Rahm would have still fled with the money had Del boy genuinely been doing them a favour and turned up with the correct amount, or were they only conning those who tried to con them?
Yes you’re right Oliver, it was Del’s.
This is wrong. It was not Rodney’s suggestion to write to That’s life, it was Dels