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Only Fools and Horses is regarded as a cult Brit comedy and it still has a legion of fans despite being more than 40 years old.
David Jason's Derek 'Del Boy' Trotter character is known for some of the show's best one liners including "this time next year, we'll be millionaires" and "lovely jubbly".
Jason famously played the role from when the BBC show launched in 1981 until the final episode in 2003.
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Among the most popular episodes was one of the last called Time On Our Hands, which aired in 1996 and saw Del Boy and his sidekick brother Rodney Trotter (Nicholas Lyndhurst) become millionaires after finding an antique watch in their garage.
In 2001 the series was revived after a 5-year-break in the shape of three Christmas specials: If They Could See Us Now, Strangers on the Shore, and Sleepless in Peckham.
The festive episodes, the last of which aired in 2003, centred on what happened to the Trotter brothers after they received their cash windfall – and are the last ones to have aired to date.
The specials, which each debuted on Christmas Day in 2001, 2002, and 2003, would prove to be the last time the characters would grace screens.
The BBC is believed to have shelled out £1 million for each of the feature-length episode, equating to a staggering around £1.69million per episode, The Express reports.
Around the time the average sitcom would cost around £500,000, meaning the BBC paid double the average rates.
Jason was paid £100,000 per episode – or which equated to £169,000 in today’s money, while Lyndhurst is believed to have earned a similar amount per episode.
Jason has revealed that he would love to play the character once more.
Speaking at an event at the Royal Albert Hall in 2021, the actor reflected on the show's legacy, saying: "As a show it’s very important we don’t forget about it, it has a huge following, it fills in that need for an awful lot of people.
"It’s funny, amusing and an identity for most people who watch it, who are working class and come from where I come from, and identify with the idiots who are the Trotters.
“They’re just like the rest of us, a family who have ups and downs."
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