Playing a goose in his first TV appearance David Jason “would never, ever have thought” he would star in one of the highest-rated British festive specials.
On December 25, 1965, he played King Goose in a BBC production of the pantomime Mother Goose.
And on December 29, 1996, 24.3 million people were watching as his Only Fools And Horses character Del Boy finally got rich after auctioning an antique watch.
