Fatal Extraction Episode Review
Brief: While Peckham is in the midst of rioting, Del Boy is having trouble with his teeth and with Raquel. She objects to him spending all night at the 1.11 Club. It is no surprise when she leaves him but Del goes straight back into dating. Then he changes his mind he wants to forget about it, but will the scorned woman let him?
Transmitted: 25.12.1993
Duration: 85 minutes
Viewing Figures: 19.6 million
Raquel is worried that Santa will be too busy down the 121 Club getting drunk, to provide Damien with any presents.
Rodney raises the problem with Del, who explains he is brokering a deal to get hold of some Russian ex-military Camcorders to make ends meet over Christmas.
Rodney’s marriage is going so well that they have decided to try to have a baby. So much so he’s getting phone calls from Cassie at work, telling him to come home because she’s the right temperature.
Raquel leaves Del, staying at Rodney and Cassandra’s place. Del does what any man would: Organises a date with Beverly, his dentist’s receptionist. He cancels it as soon as he comes to his senses.
A changed man, he invites Raquel back. After drunkenly starting a riot on the estate he sells the Russian gear to both the cops and the robbers.
All seems calm, but Beverly seems to be stalking Del.
Episode Observations
- In Fatal Extraction, In response to the comment made by Michael Kilburn above, regarding Rodney holding Damien the wrong way around. This scene never actually took place in this episode, but in “Mother Nature’s Son” previously.
- In Fatal Extraction, Whilst the riots are happening there is a shot of the helicopter and you can see that it is raining (Look at the search light). The very next scene is them rioting, but it is not raining.
- In Fatal Extraction, how could Albert hear Del singing in the precinct, if as Rodney says ‘He slept through two world wars’.
- In Fatal Extraction, The building they use for the casino is the same building they used in ‘Yuppy Love’ for the wine bar. It is known as the old granary in Welsh Back, Bristol.
- In Fatal Extraction, watch the scene where Rodney and Cassandra are in bed, just before Damien enters the room. Cassandra still has her themometer in her hand when she leans to cuddle Rodney. She must drop the themometer down the back of the bed, as when her hands are next in view, with NO scene change, she no longer has the themometer.
- In Fatal Extraction, when Del goes into the kitchen to find Alberts boiling pants the steam is falling and not rising, clearly a case of dry ice and not steam!
- In Fatal Extraction, Raquel gives del boy a really good answer phone and in three years in heroes and villians it’s majorly messed up.
- In Fatal Extraction, When Del and Rodney are in the casino, Del says he likes gambling with his mates, Rodney says “and who are your mates?” he runs a few off and when he comes to Boycie he says “oh Boycie, the man that thinks anyone who has a penny less than him is a peasant”. When he says Peasant he stutters.
- In Fatal Extraction, When Del steps into the beans that Albert has dropped, he puts his whole foot in. But afterwards, when Albert gives him the ‘Relate’ form he goes to wipe his foot with it. Del’s foot is clearly only half covered in beans!.
- In Fatal Extraction, Albert In the market, when Del has Rodney modeling the ski wear, Rodney’s wearing a hat. The logo’s on the left when Trigger says hello but when they cut back to Del and Rodney, the logo’s on the right!.
- In Fatal Extraction, Albert says im not going to the window because a brick might come through. Rodney says we’re on the 12th floor. But in ‘Roal Flush’ at the end, near the lift it says 13Th floor. Funny how the flat moves from level to level!.
- In Fatal Extraction, during Rodney’s dream sequence at the start, look how Rodney is holding Damien when the camera is behing him. Then when it cuts to the mirror shot, his empty arms are actually held out to the other side to which he was holding Damien. The fact that it’s a mirror shot is a little confusing, but the director definitely gets it wrong on this occasion.
- In Fatal Extraction, denzil is telling Del, Mike, Boycie and Trigger how he has been split up from his wife for 7 years, yet in the episode Yuppy Love Denzil is still together with his wife(Corrine). Between these 2 episodes the gap is less then 7 years,meaning the script writers have got the facts wrong.
- In Fatal Extraction, Mental Mickey who was in the episode it’s only rock and roll, were Rodders and the boys set up a band is also in Fatal Extraction involved in the Peckham riots. I noticed him in it 3 times just after Del finishes singing.
- In Fatal Extraction, (1993) Rodney states he is 31 yrs old, yet in the (1981) episode “big brother”, 12 years earlier he says he’s 23!?
- In Fatal Extraction, On the same theme as the great Robbie Williams debate, look at the barmaid serving in the Nag’s Head during the scene in which Del & Boycie are discussing Bronco and the psychiatric hospital (about 1 hour 3 mins into the episode). It’s the blonde one from Steps! (I think her name is Faye)
- In Fatal Extraction, When Rodney is told by Del that he will have to deliver the high chair to Beverly (about 1 hour 21 mins into the episode), Del states that the reason he cannot do it himself is because he has “a wife and kid”. A bit of a faux-pas on his part, as him and Raquel have never got married (or so we assume…)
- In Fatal Extraction, when Del sounds his horn in the capri ghia, he pushes the centre of the steering wheel. hoever, capri horns are sounded by pushing one of the stalks!
- In Fatal Extraction, when Del is trying to remember who his old bird was (it turns out to be Marlene) he says that he took her home to see his mum and dad. In A Losing Streak Del says that his dad left on his 16th birthday, meaning he must have been going out with Marlene when he was 15. Surely that’s a bit young to be buying her a ring (presumably to get engaged), going into a betting shop and booking a holiday together!
- In Fatal Extraction, when the riots start, the outside scene shows the block of flats used for Nelson Mandella House clearly is built in a way that the door is on the side of the kitchen and not from the lounge, unlike in “The Sky’s the Limit”, the studio scene on the balcony shows a small window (in the Kitchen wall)
- In Fatal Extraction, during the riots outside Nelson Mandella House, the actors used for the riots were from the Old Vic drama school. Famous choirboy Aled Jones was there at the time and is amongst the rioters filmed in that scene.
- In Fatal Extraction, you may notice that when the answer machine message is played back at the end it is slightly different to the one actually left earlier on by Del. You’ll have to listen carefully though.
- In Fatal Extraction, after Del and Rodney have finished at the casino they go down the market to sell the ski-wear. The scene starts by panning across the market down towards the place where Del’s selling his gear by means of his little side-show. Until the close up shot of Del, all his banter is clearly out of sync with what he is really saying.
- In Fatal Extraction, it states that the Trotters live on the 12th floor, but it also shows the lift on one of the older episodes, maybe when Del’s dad makes a return, and it clearly states the 13th floor.
- In Fatal Extraction, when Rodney comes into the dentist to see Del about the hamster he looks a bit wind swept with his hair everywhere and when it go back to Rodney his hair is perfect.
Fatal Extraction Script
The script will be downloadable from here
Fatal Extraction Locations
This is the Granery Building, Welsh Backs, City Docks, Bristol which is in 2 episodes the first one is Yuppie Love and the second episode is Fatal Extraction.
This is the Brunswich Square, in Bristol and is used in the scene where Rodney waits with a rat as Del goes to the dentist.
Sadly the video link is missing from this page. Anyone got a URL? Sadly, this episode is missing from Gomovies as well
Has anyone ever noticed that in the riot scene there is a shot of Del sitting in the Capri Ghia, and there are the initials “DT” printed on the drivers door, obviously for Derek Trotter.
Another error in this I notice in the bed scene where rodney says he remembers his dad and mum fighting and del coming back drunk doesnt add up in the episode where their at the club and he has broken up with Cassy, and his back living with Del and Raquel he says at the night club he does not remember her just a hole in the ground was for at the cemetry I think or in the flat in the club he says just this blond woman yet in fatal extraction he says he remembers his mum and dad fighting so how does this add up i just watching fatal attraction now and as its on uk gold so often these days you get to notice all this bad script writing or forgetful memory from John Sullivan doesn’t make sense! in another episode
its in the “Rodney come home” episode although Rodney never went through with the date he still took it further than Del did when Rodney asked him to cancel his date with the Receptionist at the dentist total hypocrisy here from Rodney at least Del backed down immediately!
There is the negative comment on John Sullivan’s so-called ‘bad script writing’.
I think Rodney is a hypocrite here because he did the same thing to Cassandra when he when out with or neaerly tanya or threatened to yet del boy backs down immediately about his date with the dentist receptionist but look at Rodney he was polishing his shoes and was taking it all the way to taking her to the pictures leaving del to go round to Casandras i notice a lot of this sort of thing througout the entire series between Rodney and Del a lot…im sorry but its true.
In this episode when Del, Rodney, Trigger and Denzil are in Sid’s cafe, Del is trying to remember the name of the bird he once dated (this turned out to be Marlene), Denzil mentions Pauline, obviously a clear reference to Pauline Harris who appeared in the earlier episode The Second Time Around.
i watched this old episode last night after a long time and i thought the actress Beverly is very beautiful with a lovely smile
Another good Christmas speical, is it just me or is tessa peake-jones really beautiful in this episode.
She stunning in Jolly Boys outing and Dates!
I wonder what happened to Gerry the Gerbil after this episode. Did we ever see or hear of him again?
It was 3 years ’til the next 3 episodes, so the Gerbil may have died, they don’t live that long, and if it was still alive, it would probably have been in Damiens’ room and not part of the story :)
Does anybody notice the bottle of heinz tomato sauce mistake at the beginning of the episode? first it is nearly empty, albert then pours it and it’s totally full then he puts it back down it’s nearly empty again. :)
Who’s the blonde barmaid at 57:45 ? It’s certainly not Faye from “Steps”, she was very young back in ’93. I would appreciate an answer .
So does del actualy marry raquel or is it a mistake?
A mistake I would of thought, as she was being introduced by Del as his ‘Significant Other’ in If They Could See Us Now, 8 years later.
Rodney told Cassandra that Del did not turn up for his O-Level/GCE Exams and got eight A’s which stood for “Absent”, yet in the second Rock & Chips episode “Five Gold Rings”, Del was shown to have left school before taking his GCE’s. His family were fully aware of it, and they did not send Del back to school because he was their sole breadwinner (at least until Joannie got both her old job at the Ritz Cinema back, and the job of being Freddie the Frog’s charlady).
whats the name of the music that is played after Mars by Gustav Holst as Del is driving through the riot please
Thanks
Just noticed a little mistake in the episode Fatal Extraction, quite early on in the episode, when Albert gives Del the Relate, Marriage guidance thing that came through the door, Rodney says, “Del and Raquel are not married” to which Albert replies “No, but they row though, don’t they”.
However, later on in the nags head, Del and Rodney are talking, when Del says “I have a wife and kid” to which rodney replies “i have a wife and… Thermometer”
Did Raquel and Del Get married off screen or is this perhaps a mistake from John Sullivan. I know It is trivial, but quite interesting.
To the best of my knowledge, it must have been a small mistake made by John Sullivan.
as there was never an episode where Del and Raquel got married – I dont even think the 2 characters got married off-screen either.
purely a small mistake on behalf of John.
I feel I must point out an error in the episode observations. You state that Del presses the horn in the middle of the steering wheel to clear the rioters but Capri horn were on the stalk. That was not always the case. I have previously owned four Capri’s, of which two had the horn in the middle of the steering wheel. The ones that were like that were the 2.8i and the 3.0V6. Plus being an old model Capri Ghia that Del had, it is quite possible that someone put airhorns in the middle of the wheel and the ordinary horn on the stalk.
Thanks James your observations are appreciatted
keep posting
What is the name of the actress who plays Beverley?
Mel Martin. Better late than never.
Re:the answer machine is not the one raquel bought, del bought it off ronnie nelson,
what john l said was also in a book called the gift, by cecilia ahern
Can’t read this script neither.
The flat moving from floor 13 to floor 12 between Royal Flush and this episode is based on fact. I knew someone who lived in Peckham in one of the flats the Trotters are supposed to be in and the floors were renumbered in the early ’90 originally the ground floor was 1 American style but this became Ground or Zero in a big refurbishment. Then because people who had bought their flats complained about deprecation at suddenly being on the unlucky 13th floor they went 12-14 and skipped 13 all together.
In Fatal Extraction, on the fatal extraction box it has a picture of a scene from rodney come home