Rodney Come Home Episode Review
Brief: Rodney has to sleep on the settee because Raquel hasn’t yet agreed to ‘stamp Del’s card’. To make Cassandra jealous Rodney arranges a date with Tanya from the Peckham – Exhaust Centre. He backs out before going through with it but somehow Cassandra still finds out. Del’s heart is in the right place, pity about his brain.
Transmitted: 25.12.1990
Duration: 75 minutes
Viewing Figures: 18.0 million
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.
Rodney Come Home Script
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