Citizen Smith
British TV sitcom (1977ā1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.[1]
Citizen Smith | |
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Created by | John Sullivan |
Starring | Robert Lindsay Mike Grady Cheryl Hall Hilda Braid Peter Vaughan Tony Steedman Tony Millan George Sweeney Stephen Greif David Garfield |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 4 |
No. of episodes | 30 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 12 April 1977 (1977-04-12) ā 31 December 1980 (1980-12-31) |
It starred Robert Lindsay as Walter Henry "Wolfie" Smith,[2] a young Marxist[3] "urban guerrilla" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara.[4] Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, who used the pseudonym "Citizen Smith" in order to evade capture by the British. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting".
Wolfie dresses in a stereotypical fashion for rebellious students of the period: logoed T-shirt, denim jeans, Afghan coat and black beret. He supports Fulham and occasionally wears a Fulham scarf. He rides a scooter and spends most of the time at his girlfriend's house, which means he constantly clashes with her parents.