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Citizen Smith Season 1

November. 03,1977
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Citizen Smith

Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980. Citizen Smith starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" living 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 English. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front, 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.

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Citizen Smith

1977

Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980. Citizen Smith starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" living 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 English. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front, 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.

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Citizen Smith Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 8 - A Story for Christmas
First Aired: December. 22,1977

It's Christmas time and Wolfie, Ken and Tucker are struggling for money to buy presents, so Ken suggests that he tries praying to God. It seems to work and they have a lot of luck with stamps, well at least they think they do!

Episode 7 - But Is It Art?
First Aired: December. 15,1977

When Ken paints on some slabbing stones in the town, Charlie ends up falling and breaking his ankle. Wolfie doesn't think that Ken's painting is any good, but soon changes his mind when a antique dealer wants to buy Ken's picture for a good price which could solve all their money problems.....for a while anyway.

Episode 6 - The Path of True Love
First Aired: December. 08,1977

Shirley is fed up with Wolfie, so they split up. Shirley has found herself a new posh boyfriend. Wolfie has the local baker, but tells Shirley that she is flying out of the country each day because she has such an important job! Later on, they meet in the same place with their new partners. Wolfie calls Shirley's boyfriend a ponce, and then tells Shirley he has children. He walks out and then Shirley and Wolfie get back together and the 'local baker' is sent away by Wolfie. So everything is back to happiness in the end.

Episode 5 - The Hostage
Episode 4 - The Weekend
First Aired: November. 24,1977

Desiree (Speed's Girlfriend) has been doing some dancing at Wolfie and Ken's local. Ken begins to fall in love with Desiree, but doesn't know that Speed has warned Wolfie to keep a eye on her when he's in prison. Wolfie decides to be on the safe side and invite Shirley and himself on a weekend with Ken and Desiree when Ken says they are made for each other.

Episode 2 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
First Aired: November. 10,1977

When Shirley invites Wolfie over to meet her mum and dad, he trys to get out of it, but fails. Also during this episode he goes to his local and finds a fingernail in his pie!

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