A rare 'Only Fools and Horses' script has been put up for auction on eBay.

Sir David Jason

Sir David Jason

The script dates back to the 1980s and is expected to raise thousands in an online bidding war.

Make-up designer Dorka Nieradzik - who worked on the 'Jolly Boys’ Outing' Christmas special in 1989 - got her hands on the script after helping to make the iconic episode for the BBC, and her name even appears on the front of it.

The seller wrote on eBay: "This belonged to my late aunt, Dorka Nieradzik MBE, who was a make-up designer and presumably was the designer on this episode."

Fans of the hit sitcom - which starred the likes of Sir David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Buster Merryfield - have been given until Wednesday (09.06.21) to place their bid for the rare script, the Daily Mirror newspaper reports.

Earlier this year, meanwhile, it was revealed that a lost 'Only Fools and Horses' episode would have seen Del Boy celebrate his retirement in the Nag's Head.

The special was planned to mark the comedy show's 30th anniversary but writer John Sullivan died in April 2011 before finishing the script.

John Challis, who played Del Boy's nemesis Boycie, shared: "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."