User Reviews

It's voting time, and everyone falls into the party groups you'd expect them to, Rigsby naturally are ardent Tory, Alan and Philip for Labour, and Miss Jones if of course a don't know.

The funny element of this episode is the fact that it's forty five years old, and very little has changed politically in all that time, The Tories v Labour, with the Lib Dems hidden away in the background.

Some nice guest performances, and some funny scenes, if ever an episode managed to sum up the character of Rigsby to perfection, it is this one.

Some things never change!

The people's flag is......

7/10.

It is election time and Rigsby has been out canvassing for the Tories, he hopes this would make him noticed at the local Conservative club.

Philip and Alan are Maoists and are supporting the local Labour candidate. They even managed to put a Labour banner on Vienna.

Miss Jones is undecided but manages to be all over the wet Liberal candidate (played by Ian Lavender) when he calls round.

You can guess the twist coming as the Tory candidate is the last to visit the household, he doesn't know who Rigsby is despite both being in the local Conservative club, his dog fouls in the house and then calls Rigsby a slum landlord.

This must have been a fun episode to make. Leonard Rossiter was well known for his right wing views which rubbed the other cast members the wrong way. I guess the writer mined that tension for this amusing episode which harks back to the disastrous final months of the Heath government and the early part of the Wilson administration.