The BEST episodes directed by Ray Butt
#1 - Puddings from Heaven
It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Season 5 - Episode 4
When the men discover a way to get food dropped illegally, they get into trouble. The food (puddings) were meant for some senior officers.
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#2 - The Superstar
It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Season 5 - Episode 5
The Concert Party members are made to feel redundant when a talented new arrival steals the limelight.
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#3 - A Touch of Glass
Only Fools and Horses - Season 2 - Episode 7
Del introduces the Dresden-collecting aristocracy to some North Korean porcelain and his chandelier-cleaning service.
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#4 - The Pay-Off
It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Season 5 - Episode 3
The men of the Royal Artillery Concert Party put on a show for Burmese bandits.
#5 - Bridge Over the River Hipong
It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Season 5 - Episode 2
While they are still having trouble adapting to the jungle, the members of the concert party get the task of building a bridge.
#6 - The Final Try
Citizen Smith - Season 4 - Episode 3
Wolfie plans to try and disrupt a proposed tour of the UK by a multi-racial rugby team from South Africa.
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#7 - The Letter of the Law
Citizen Smith - Season 4 - Episode 4
Wolfie turns up for jury duty and finds out that the trial is for Ronnie Lynch.
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#8 - We Shall Not Be Moved
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 5
When Dad throws Wolfie and Ken out from their home, they sneak back in later as squatters.
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#9 - The Yellow Peril
Only Fools and Horses - Season 2 - Episode 5
Del's got a job painting a Chinese restaurant - but is he wise to get some help from Rodney 'Leonardo' Trotter?
#10 - The Long Legs of the Law
Only Fools and Horses - Season 2 - Episode 1
Streuth! Rodder's besmirching the good reputation of the Trotter family by dating a policewoman...
#11 - It Never Rains...
Only Fools and Horses - Season 2 - Episode 6
The Trotter family holiday is underway when Grandad runs into a bit of trouble with the Spanish police.
#12 - Ashes to Ashes
Only Fools and Horses - Season 2 - Episode 2
Del's busy selling Trig's gran's genuine antique urns. Trouble is, one of them is Trig's Grandad's last resting place!
#13 - The Glorious Day
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 7
Wolfie and the gang hijack a tank and drive it to Westminster.
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#14 - Rock Bottom
Citizen Smith - Season 2 - Episode 5
Wolfie's old school-mate Rick Holmes, now a successful record producer, returns to Tooting to hold auditions for a new group whom he intends to take back to Los Angeles with him. Wolfie is one of the successful applicants and says his goodbyes. Shirley is heart-broken until Wolfie appears to tell her that he has changed his mind and will not be leaving after all - although the decision was rather forced upon him after revealed Rick turned out not to be all he claimed.
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#15 - Only Fools and Horses
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 2
Wolfie and the gang try to lobby a local council meeting but it all goes wrong and they end up taking over a lift instead.
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#16 - Take-Over
Are You Being Served? - Season 5 - Episode 5
The staff prevent another firm's hostile takeover of Grace Brothers by impersonating the shareholders. Mr. Harman gives a rousing speech, and Grace Brothers is saved.
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#17 - The Big Job
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 3
Ken is shocked when Wolfie decides to turn to crime to get some money for the cause.
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#18 - Founder's Day
Are You Being Served? - Season 5 - Episode 3
To celebrate Mr. Grace's 80th birthday, the staff organize This is Your Department, a spoof of This is Your Life.
#19 - Fire Practice
Are You Being Served? - Season 4 - Episode 4
After finding that Grace Brothers' fire precautions leave a lot to be desired, Mr. Harman helps out training the staff in fire preparedness and a fireman gives Mr. Humphries a lift.
#20 - The Party's Over
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 6
Wolfie and the Johnsons get invited to a special party by Wolfie's new girlfriend.
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#21 - Changes
Citizen Smith - Season 4 - Episode 2
Wolfie and the gang are released from prison and notice that Tooting has changed a lot, so Wolfie thinks of a plan to try and change things back to normal.
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#22 - Goodbye Mr. Grainger
Are You Being Served? - Season 5 - Episode 6
Mr. Grainger's temper as become extremely short. The staff, in a private meeting with Mr. Rumbold, decide he must go. However, when he wins the lottery, his bad mood vanishes and he makes his peace with the staff and stays on.
#23 - Mrs. Slocombe Expects
Are You Being Served? - Season 5 - Episode 1
The staff have kittens when Mrs. Slocombe announces she's expecting a happy event, but it turns out that it's merely her cat that's pregnant; when she refuses to leave Tiddles unattended, she braves the ire of Captain Peacock by smuggling the cat into the ladies' fitting room.
#24 - The Old Order Changes
Are You Being Served? - Season 5 - Episode 4
Young Mr. Grace returns from a trip to the U.S. with a host of new sales techniques that he is eager to implement.
#25 - A Change Is as Good as a Rest
Are You Being Served? - Season 5 - Episode 2
When Mr. Grace announces that he plans on temporarily reorganizing the departments, the staff are indignant, but find that work can be a lot of fun...if you're working in the toy department.
#26 - The Hostage
Citizen Smith - Season 1 - Episode 5
Having only secured six votes at the local by-election - much to Shirley's Dad's amusement - Wolfie decides to make a political statement and kidnap the successful Tory MP, David West. Unfortunately things do not go as planned since initially his wife does not want him back and refuses to pay a ransom and then Wolfie discovers that, instead of his intended victim, he has erroneously kidnapped the local racketeer Harry Fenning, who is not amused.
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#27 - Speed's Return
Citizen Smith - Season 2 - Episode 1
Bad boy Speed is being released from jail and his girlfriend Desiree has bad news for him, though she fails to tell Wolfie precisely what it is. He assumes she is pregnant by another man and confides in Shirley, but her Dad only overhears part of the conversation and assumes he is to be a grandfather. The bad news is something completely different and Speed and Desiree are happily reunited whilst Dad has mixed feelings when told the truth.
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#28 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Citizen Smith - Season 1 - Episode 2
After a scary exchange with dodgy local businessman Harry Fenning in the pub, Wolfie finally gets to meet Shirley's parents for dinner. Mum is a delight, not quite with it, calling her daughter's beau Foxy; Dad, on the other hand, makes it clear that Wolfie represents everything he despises, mistakenly offering him dope and spoiling his war story. He challenges him to get a job.
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#29 - Don't Look Down
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 1
When Shirley takes a job in Rimini, Wolfie threatens to throw himself off the roof of the pub.
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#30 - Tofkin's Revenge
Citizen Smith - Season 3 - Episode 4
Inspector Tofkin asks for help from Wolfie and the Front to get his own back on his cousin Harry Fenning.
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#31 - Working Class Hero
Citizen Smith - Season 2 - Episode 4
Wolfie is told that he must accept work or else lose his dole money so he reluctantly starts at an electrical goods factory - only to find that Charlie is his boss. Appalled that there is no trade union, he brings the factory out on strike, with the result that all staff must now join a union - including an unenthusiastic Dad. And with Charlie seeking revenge by giving Wolfie the worst jobs, there is only one thing to do - resign! Originally scheduled for broadcast on 22 December 1978, but rescheduled due to industrial action.
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#32 - Abide with Me
Citizen Smith - Season 1 - Episode 3
Wolfie and Ken are evicted for the fourth time in a year - nor does it help that the policeman they summon is the son of the landlady to whom they owe rent. They have a place to go but need a stop-gap for a night so Shirley persuades her parents to give them the spare room. However her Dad inadvertently gets rid of the boys' prospective accommodation, making the stay rather more permanent.
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#33 - The Path of True Love
Citizen Smith - Season 1 - Episode 6
Declaring Wolfie to be a loser, Shirley returns the necklace and dumps him. On the rebound, Wolfie goes out with the boring but expensive Fiona and in the pub they meet up with Shirley and new boyfriend David. He is handsome, urbane and very wealthy. He is also married as Wolfie finds out and uses in order to win Shirley back again.
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#34 - The Tooting Connection
Citizen Smith - Season 2 - Episode 3
Speed steals a number of stereos from Charlie's factory and, through Wolfie's brokering, sells them to Harry Fenning. A celebration is in order so Speed steals a car for a night out - Harry's new car. Wolfie and his friends are terrified that Harry will come after them, seeking revenge and are amazed to find that they have unintentionally done him a good turn.
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#35 - Crocodile Tears
Citizen Smith - Season 1 - Episode 1
Wolfie Smith believes the time is right for the citizens of Tooting to rise up against the Tory government though his placid, spiritual friend Ken is not convinced. His zeal is also lost on long time girlfriend Shirley who mistakes the crocodile tooth necklace he gives her for her birthday for a token of their engagement. Her father is not impressed by the sound of his daughter's young man.
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#36 - Rebel Without a Pause
Citizen Smith - Season 2 - Episode 2
Shirley thinks Dad is being very brave to take Mum on holiday to Spain after he has lost his job as security guard at the factory. Inspired by a visit to Karl Marx's grave, Wolfie and Ken decide to stage a protest, demanding Dad's reinstatement by chaining themselves to the railings outside the works, but by the time they realise he has happily taken voluntary redundancy and has another job, they and the railings are on their way to the smelting yard - in Birmingham.
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#37 - Bigger than Guy Fawkes
Citizen Smith - Season 4 - Episode 1
After the failure of their coup, Wolfie and the gang are stuck in jail.
#38 - Spanish Fly
Citizen Smith - Season 2 - Episode 6
As Shirley and Ken belittle Wolfie's efforts to start a revolt he tells them that he has written letters of support to revolutionaries in other countries and, as a result, receives a visit from Jose Alvarez, leader of the Bilbao Liberation Movement, who promises him soldiers and vehicles. Dad is delighted and sees Jose, whose father is an aristocrat, as a suitable husband for Shirley, but Wolfie is less enchanted when he learns that Jose's father has disowned him and he is seeking funds because his own revolutionary outfit is as pitiful and cash-starved as Wolfie's. Originally scheduled for broadcast on 29 December 1978, its place was taken by "Working Class Hero" due to industrial disputes and it eventually aired the following summer, just over a month before the beginning of Series 3.