Sir David Jason has said he “would never, ever have thought” he would go from having his first television show air on Christmas Day to starring in one of the highest-rated festive specials in BritishThe veteran actor made his television debut on December 25 1965 when he played King Goose in a BBC production of the pantomime Mother Goose.
Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Christmas Day 2022, the 82-year-old said: “It’s been a journey. There is no way on Planet Earth that you would have thought in any possibility that would happen to me. He added: “That was not the reason I started the journey of being an actor – it was to act, it wasn’t fame or fortune.
Only Fools And Horses, written by John Sullivan, first aired on the BBC in 1981 and followed the colourful escapades of market trader Derek Trotter – and his less streetwise younger brother Rodney Trotter, played by Nicholas Lyndhurst, as they go through the highs and lows of life and try to become rich.