David Jason says Only Fools creator made big mistake that left show with 'nowhere to go'

Acclaimed and much-loved histrion David Jason has looked backmost connected Only Fools and Horses and thinks creator David Sullivan made 1 mistake erstwhile penning towards the extremity of the sitcom

Sir David Jason says Del Boy should ne'er person go a millionaire successful Only Fools and Horses due to the fact that it ruined the show.

The 1996 Christmas peculiar Time On Our Hands saw Derek Trotter and his hapless member Rodney Trotter yet fulfil Del’s committedness that “this clip adjacent twelvemonth we’ll beryllium millionaires” erstwhile they observe a long-lost 18th Century Harrison marine ticker successful Del’s store and merchantability it astatine auction astatine Sotheby's for £6.2 million.

The occurrence was watched by 24.3 cardinal viewers connected BBC1 delighted that the Trotter boys had made it. Sir David – who played Del Boy – believes it was a mistake for writer John Sullivan to let Del Boy to realise his imagination due to the fact that his conflict to marque ends conscionable was what made the amusement truthful funny.

Speaking astatine a instrumentality convention, helium said: “There was obscurity to spell aft the Trotters became millionaires and it each worked out. It was the extremity of a travel and the travel was that conflict for survival, the conflict for the family, the mode that they behaved, that enactment and each of that worldly that made the Trotters ceased to beryllium erstwhile they had go millionaires, if you like."

Writer John Sullivan brought the sitcom backmost for 3 much Christmas specials betwixt 2001 and 2003 which showed Del and Rodney suffer each their wealth owed to atrocious investments and person to determination backmost to their level successful Mandela House successful Peckham. But the episodes struggled to recreate the magic of the archetypal series.

David, 84, added: “It wasn't that John had tally retired of steam truthful much, but helium was truthful utilized to moving mentally with each of the characters, the benignant of the chopped and thrust of learning to past connected the borderline of disaster, arsenic it were.”

Only Fools and Horses was archetypal broadcast connected BBC One successful September 1981. It ran for 7 bid and sixteen Christmas specials until 25 December 2003. In total, 64 regular episodes of Only Fools and Horses, each written by John Sullivan, were produced.

Del Boy, played by David Jason, would often accidental connected the show: “This clip adjacent twelvemonth Rodney, we're going to beryllium millionaires.”

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