David Jason keen to play Del Boy again

Sir David Jason wants one more crack at playing Del Boy Trotter.

The 'Only Fools and Horses' legend - who last starred as the cheeky chappy wheeler-dealer in 2003 Christmas special episode 'Sleepless in Peckham' - has called for a screenwriter to pen a new script so he can reprise his role as the iconic TV character.

He said: "I’ve always loved Del Boy, who is such a wonderful loser.

"I would love to revisit him, I need someone to write me a script."

David also believes it is "very important" people don't forget about the show because so many can relate to the "ups and downs" the family go through.

Speaking to The Sun newspaper, he added: "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."

In February last year, 'Only Fools' star John Challis - who played car dealer Boycie in the show - revealed creator John Sullivan planned to make another episode that would have seen Del Boy celebrate his retirement in the Nag's Head, but the writer died before he could pen the ep.

John - who died in September aged 79 - said: "The 30th anniversary was coming up and John was in the process of getting together a Christmas special or something.

“It was going to be Del Boy’s 65th birthday, he was going to retire and there was going to be a bit of a get-together in the Nag’s Head. But unfortunately he (John) got ill and didn’t come out of it.”

The first 'Only Fools' episode, 'Big Brother', aired in September 1981, and the show went on to run for seven series and numerous specials until the final episode in 2003.