Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who went on later to write Only Fools and Horses. The Pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series properly ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980.
Citizen Smith starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Trotskyist urban revolutionary living in Tooting, South London, who is attempting to emulat...
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Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who went on later to write Only Fools and Horses. The Pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series properly ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980.
Citizen Smith starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Trotskyist urban revolutionary living in Tooting, South London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the Tooting Popular Front (in reality a small bunch of his friends) the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting". In reality, he is an unemployed dreamer and petty criminal whose plans fall through because of laziness and disorganisation.
John Sullivan became a scenery shifter at the BBC because of his desire to write a sitcom outline he had called Citizen Smith, fearing rejection if he sent the idea in, he decided it would be better to get a job, any job...
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