The BEST episodes of Citizen Smith season 1
Every episode of Citizen Smith season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Citizen Smith season 1!
Wolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting, London, a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla who aspires to be like his hero Che Guevara. Leading a small group called the Tooting Popular Front with aspirations to create a communist Britain, while being thoroughly disorganised, his chances range from slim to none.
#1 - The Hostage
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/1/1977
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.
#2 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/1977
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.
#3 - But Is It Art?
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/15/1977
Ken is passing the time as a pavement artist and brings home a paving slab with one of his paintings on it. When a well-dressed man in a Rolls-Royce arrives at the house, Wolfie assumes he is a council official, there to complain and launches into a tirade but soon changes his tune when the man turns out to be an art dealer prepared to pay £500 for the slab. Unfortunately Wolfie has put it in the potting shed from where Dad has taken it and broken it up to be part of his crazy paving.
#4 - The Weekend
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/24/1977
When one of Wolfie's 'freedom fighters', Speed, goes to prison Ken becomes smitten with Speed's go-go dancer girlfriend Desiree and agrees to spend a weekend at a hotel in Bury St Edmunds with her. Wolfie sees the chance to get away with Shirley and the quartet head for the hotel, though it turns out that Desiree only wanted a lift to see Speed, whose jail is down the road, and, to make things worse for Wolfie, Shirley's suspicious Dad follows them.
#5 - Abide with Me
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/17/1977
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.
#6 - The Path of True Love
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/8/1977
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.
#7 - Crocodile Tears
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/1977
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.