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"The Long Legs of the Law" is the first episode of series 2 of the
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sitcom
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, ''
Only Fools and Horses
''Only Fools and Horses....'' is a British television sitcom created and written by John Sullivan (writer), John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991, with sixteen sporadic Christmas ...
''. It was first broadcast on 21 October 1982. The title of the episode was a pun on the police term "the long arm of the law". In the episode, Del is horrified when he discovers that Rodney is dating a
police
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and th ...
woman.
Synopsis
It is the morning after a party at the ''Nag's Head'' attended by
Del Boy
Derek Edward Trotter, more commonly known as Del Boy, is a fictional character from the BBC sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses'' and one of the main characters of its spinoff series, '' Rock & Chips''. He was played by David Jason in the original s ...
and
Rodney, which broke into a riot. It emerges that to break up the trouble, a young
police
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woman (Sandra) had been sent, and Del teases Rodney for trying to ask her out for a date whilst she was dealing with the offenders. Later at Sid's Cafe Rodney reveals that he had in fact been successful, and has arranged a date with her, much to Del's disapproval.
Ignoring Del's pleas, Rodney takes Sandra out. Del and
Grandad intensely discuss the implications of Rodney dating a police officer for their business. Del ultimately concludes that a wrong word from Rodney and they could serve five years imprisonment.
Rodney returns home late at night and Grandad reveals to Del that he has brought Sandra home with him, resulting in a nervous Del desperately trying to hide some of the illegal goods in the flat, including three cases of
export
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-only
gin and some stolen watches recently purchased from
Trigger
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;Mononym
* Trigger (horse), owned by cowboy star Roy Rogers
;Nickname
* Trigger Alpert (1916–2013), American jazz bassist
* "Trigger Mike" Coppola (1900–1966), American gangster
;Surname
* Bru ...
. Rodney and Sandra enter, and Del suddenly realises that Rodney has given her one of Trigger's watches. He gets it off her after "accidentally" spilling some gin over it, but says that they cannot give her another glass of gin, since they have run out, only for Rodney – impulsively – to reveal the three cases of it hidden behind the curtains by Del.
Back outside Sandra's flat, she and Rodney say farewell. She tells Rodney that she had indeed noticed all the illegal goods in the flat, despite Del's efforts to hide them. Rodney, realising that the situation is his fault, takes the blame for all of the stolen goods in the flat, even though he knows it will probably result in his arrest and will certainly put an end to any hopes of dating Sandra again. However, because she enjoyed the night, rather than arrest him, Sandra decides to give the Trotters 24 hours to get rid of the stolen property, before she returns with the
CID
CID may refer to:
Film
* ''C.I.D.'' (1955 film), an Indian Malayalam film
* ''C.I.D.'' (1956 film), an Indian Hindi film
* ''C. I. D.'' (1965 film), an Indian Telugu film
* ''C.I.D.'' (1990 film), an Indian Hindi film
Television
* ''CID'' ( ...
. Rodney asks Sandra to go out on another date, but she sternly tells him not to push his luck.
The final scene shows the Trotters in their now near-empty flat, with all three still frantically removing stuff and Del still threatening to kill Rodney for getting them into the mess.
Episode cast
Kate Saunders considered her natural accent to be unsuitable for the role so modelled her accent on that of the lead character on the contemporary series ''
The Gentle Touch
''The Gentle Touch'' is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which began on 11 April 1980 and ran until 1984. The series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police of ...
''.
First appearances
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Roy Heather as Sid
Episode concept
The idea for the script was based on
John Sullivan's niece, who worked as a policewoman.
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References
External links
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1982 British television episodes
Only Fools and Horses (series 2) episodes
Works about police officers