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) – 31 December 1980 (1980-12-31)
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Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.[1]
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.
^"BFI Screenonline: Citizen Smith (1977-80)". screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
^Barnett, David (20 March 2017). "We remember Citizen Smith fondly but is there a place for him in today's politics?". The Independent. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
^"The British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
^"Citizen Smith (1977)". BFI. Archived from the original on 18 January 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
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