A fond wish...


...of mine is that John Sullivan will one day see fit to write a follow-up episode.

Okay, I know he won't, but it would be nice to find out just what happened to Wolfie after he disappeared into the tube station to make good his escape from the infuriated Ronnie Lynch.

Ahh, wishful thinking...

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Yeah, after watching it again for the first time in ages yesterday I thought exactly the same. This year is the 30th anniversary and what a great idea it would be to do a one off special.

It really could be done, but as you say isn't likely.

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Once wrote to Robert Lindsay with an idea-Wolfie "grows up" to wind up a respectable New Labour Blairite Minister with a revolutionary layabout son!No answer.

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Other idea - changed his name to Jeremy Corbyn.

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The ending reminded me of the equally downbeat finale to the wonderful British comedy/drama Budgie, with Adam Faith.

Budgie similarly had to go on the run to preserve his life, with the future looking very bleak for him - London and petty thievery being the only things he knew, and leaving it meant leaving his girlfriend, family etc, perhaps forever.

Whilst it was very sad and now, with the deaths of several members of the cast including Adam Faith, there's no chance of a sequel ever being made, in a way I think, as with Citizen Smith, it was the perfect ending - Wolfie and Budgie are preserved forever in our memory at their best. Maybe they went on to have hugely successful lives, maybe not. Finding out might spoil things, bring them back down to Earth with a bump, whereas as it stands they enjoy a mythical life in our imagination.








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Budgie had been beaten up and fired by Endell.No place in gangland London for him now.

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