David Jason: My Life (54 page)

Filming the 1989
Only Fools and Horses
Christmas Special, ‘The Jolly Boys’ Outing’. Everyone acting their socks off except the late Ken MacDonald, right of Buster Merryfield. Trust jovial Ken.

The
Only Fools and Horses
team clinches BAFTA glory. Left to right, Nick Lyndhurst, John Sullivan, Tony Dow, me and Gareth Gwenlan. Happy days.

Publicity still shot in 1991 for
The Darling Buds of May
, my mother’s favourite programme. One big happy family, with Pam Ferris, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Philip Franks. Even more happy days.

Nobody would fix the cracks in my dressing-room wall, so I did it myself. At Yorkshire Television during
Darling Buds
. I love having a practical project.

Me as Scullion in
Porterhouse Blue
, in 1987, not looking at all well. A BAFTA for Best Actor appeared shortly afterwards.

Detective Inspector Jack Frost, circa 2000. Moustache: model’s own.

Peas in a pod. A happy father and his lovely daughter. Catching up on some sleep with Sophie, 2001.

A fistful of National Television Awards. Mantelpiece getting a little crowded.

Awards don’t get any bigger than this. Arising as Sir David, December 2005, the morning after my wedding. Heady, heady times.

Hanging about as Rincewind in
The Colour of Magic
and waiting for a better job to turn up.

The women in my life: my sister, June.

My wife, Gill, and our wonderful daughter, Sophie.

INDEX

The page references in this index correspond to the printed edition from which this ebook was created. To find a specific word or phrase from the index, please use the search feature of your ebook reader.

David Jason is referred to as DJ throughout.

Abertysswg, Wales, 27

Acton, London: BBC rehearsal rooms, 242, 294–5

air-raids on London, 7–8, 11, 14–15, 20–1, 26–7

Albert’s Follies
(film), 214–19

Alexander, Bruce, 352

All Gas and Gaiters
(TV series), 270

Allen, Dave, 188

‘Allo ‘Allo
(TV series), 108, 188

Another Fine Mess
(TV comedy play), 233