Another episode that shows Wolfie's socialist principles disappear if there is easy money to be made.
Dad is building a patio in the backyard. The latest in his middle class aspirations.
Ken becomes a pavement artist in the town centre. He takes the slab home with him. Later dad trips over the hole left at the same spot and injures his leg.
It does not look like a great painting with bird poop on it but the slab of art is a gift for Wolfie and Shirley. They begrudgingly accept it and put it in the shed.
Later on an art dealer called Murdoch turns up in his Rolls Royce and makes an offer to buy it. Wolfie offers to sell it for £5 but Murdoch thinks it is £500 and writes out a cheque for that amount.
Until now, I had not watched Citizen Smith after the series finished. So I could not compare John Sullivan's writing with his later shows like Just Good Friends and Only Fools and Horses.
It is clear a lot of the set up here would be used in his later writings. Dad getting injured in the pavement slab Ken had removed. You just know by the time the art dealer arrives to collect, something would have happened to the painting. Dad's work on the patio should be a good clue.
Even Murdoch was something more than a rich but stupid art dealer. A black belt in karate who gives chase to Wolfie.
Dad is building a patio in the backyard. The latest in his middle class aspirations.
Ken becomes a pavement artist in the town centre. He takes the slab home with him. Later dad trips over the hole left at the same spot and injures his leg.
It does not look like a great painting with bird poop on it but the slab of art is a gift for Wolfie and Shirley. They begrudgingly accept it and put it in the shed.
Later on an art dealer called Murdoch turns up in his Rolls Royce and makes an offer to buy it. Wolfie offers to sell it for £5 but Murdoch thinks it is £500 and writes out a cheque for that amount.
Until now, I had not watched Citizen Smith after the series finished. So I could not compare John Sullivan's writing with his later shows like Just Good Friends and Only Fools and Horses.
It is clear a lot of the set up here would be used in his later writings. Dad getting injured in the pavement slab Ken had removed. You just know by the time the art dealer arrives to collect, something would have happened to the painting. Dad's work on the patio should be a good clue.
Even Murdoch was something more than a rich but stupid art dealer. A black belt in karate who gives chase to Wolfie.
