Chance of a Lunchtime Episode Review
Brief: Raquel has an audition for a play and Del has volunteered to help her rehearse. Rodney and Cassandra meet for supper both thinking that the other made the first move. Things seem to be going well before Rodney gets tangled up with Truddi.
Transmitted: 06.01.1991
Duration: 50 minutes
Viewing Figures: 16.6 million
Raquel wants to revive her theatrical passions and audition for Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Naturellement, Derek volunteers to help her rehearse.
Rodney and Cassandra meet for a meal both thinking that the other made the first move, and without realising Del has set them up. Things seem to be going well, until Rodney clambers out of a cab with Del’s ex-fiance Trudy… just as Cassie arrives and leaps to the wrong conclusion.
Raquel tells Derek she won’t be taking the part in the play. She shouldn’t tour when she’s pregnant.
Episode Observations
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, Del answers the phone in the flat as “Trotters INTERNATIONAL Traders” Not as “Trotters Independant Traders”.
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, when Rodney and Cassandra are having lunch and they make up with each other and Rodney decides to sleep at his own place, then Cassandra says she will be in bed in about an hour. Then when there leaving the restaurant Rodney says he will meet her in bed in about half and hour.
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, I get the feeling that Del likes selling things that have 36 different national anthems played on them. In Chance of a lunchtime he’s selling Door bells which play 36 different national anthems and in To Hull and back you see Del selling watches which have 36 national anthems played on them.
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, Alan rings the flat looking for Rodney BUT this was after Cass had told him she and Rodney had got back together so why does he ring Dels flat when he would have presumed Rodney was at his own flat?
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, While Del is pouring the tea in the morning before taking the tray into the bedroom to Raquel, the Radio 1 breakfast show with Simon Mayo is clearly heard in the background. In less than two minutes, the show did the weather report, the Identik-Hit Quiz and the Travel News, when in reality, the weather was done at five past the hour, the Identik-Hit at quarter past (in the eight o’clock hour) and the travel at twenty past. Records were always played in between.
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, when Del runs out into the hallway to call Albert and Rodney when he hears that Raquel is progress. He runs to the door that I presume is the sitting room door to call Albert who is in Granddads room BUT all that’s there is a wall which is obviously not there in past episodes (haunting scene of “Ashes to Ashes” etc.).
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, Del takes a big bite out of the hot-dog and then proceeds to hand an untouched one back to mike.
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, when Del is in bed with Raquel, the extremely tacky purple headboard has a large golden heart within its design, whereas in “Modern Man” the heart was not incorporated within the design.
- In Chance of a Lunchtime, when Del answers the phone to Alan right after Cassandra spotted Rodney with his ‘arms around Trudy’ with ‘Hello, Trotter’s International Traders’, not “Trotter’s Independent Traders”
Chance of a Lunchtime Script
The script will be downloadable from (Chance Of A Lunchtime)
Chance of a Lunchtime Location
This is used as the Nags Head in Chance of a Lunchtime.
It can be loacted at 166 West Street, Bedminster, Bristol.
I find it interesting that in one of the opening scenes, Del says to Raquel “I can’t see you playing a police woman’ when she tells him about acting in AIDA at the Met. Well surely he could envision this because in ‘Dates’ she was dressed as a police woman when she came to do her strippergram routine for Uncle Albert at the Nags Head.
You’re wrong Pal! She came dressed up a Naval Officer for Alberts birthday.
You’re wrong pal! She came dressed up as a Naval officer for Albert’s birthday.
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