LAUGHTER is the best medicine, so they say. If so, David Jason must have done more for the nation's health than Boots.

The 1996 episode of Only Fools And Horses in which Del Boy and Rodney dress up as Batman and Robin has been voted the favourite Christmas moment of all time.

There'll be a lot of Mr Jason this Christmas. He's back on BBC1 in Only Fools And Horses, while over on ITV he is portraying the Dickens character Micawber, as developed by John Sullivan, who also writes the favoured Peckham-based comedy.

Between them, they've got Christmas sewn up. Lovely jubbly, as Del would put it.

Updated: 11:55 Friday, December 07, 2001