Citizen Smith
| Citizen Smith | |
|---|---|
| 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 – 31 December 1980 |
Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980.
It starred Robert Lindsay as Walter Henry "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. Wolfie is a reference to the Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, who used the pseudonym "Citizen Smith" in order to evade capture by the Dublin Castle administration. 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 lives in the attic room at his girlfriend's parents’ house, and constantly clashes with her over-protective father.