Only Fools and Horses will return, says writer John Sullivan's son

Earlier this year we reported that Del Boy and Rodney Trotter’s best mate, Mickey Pearce, was DJing in Benidorm after actor Patrick Murray launched a new career for his famous alter ego.

But it seems that isn’t the last we’ve heard of the ‘Only Fools and Horses’ crew as the son of the show’s late writer, John Sullivan, has promised the show and its beloved characters will return – but ‘in different mediums.’

John’s son Jim, who also helped write the spin-off ‘The Green Green Grass’, is keen to write more stories around the series in the future.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror newspaper, he said: ‘I’ve always said that Only Fools – the series as we know it – was laid to rest with my dad. However, that is not to say that the show and its characters cannot, and will not, be explored in different mediums.

‘All I can say at the moment is: watch this space. Is it a question of protecting my father’s legacy? Absolutely – that has always been, and always will be, my priority.’

Jim previously wrote for ‘Only Fools and Horses’ in 2014 when he created a sketch, which saw Del Boy and Rodney join forces with David Beckham, for the Sport Relief charity special.

“We haven’t got a writer.”

‘I love to write, but much of that is now in connection with the series, such as the Del Boy autobiography ‘He Who Dares’. Writing the Sport Relief sketch was a great experience but I felt pressure to get it right and do justice to the characters,’ he added.

But anything more than a sketch here and there, or a DJ session from Mickey, could be far off, as Sir David Jason is adamant that he has no desire to do anymore episodes without Jim’s dad John, who died in 2011.

‘If we had the wonderful writer, the lovely John Sullivan, we would, I tell you. But we haven’t got a writer, and my partner Nick Lyndhurst (Rodney Trotter) has gone on to do other things. So you’re stuck with ‘Open All Hours’!’

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