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.
After the failure of their coup, Wolfie and the gang are stuck in jail.
Wolfie and the gang are released from prison and notice that Tooting has changed a lot, so Wolfie thinks of a plan to try and change things back to normal.
Wolfie plans to try and disrupt a proposed tour of the UK by a multi-racial rugby team from South Africa.
Wolfie turns up for jury duty and finds out that the trial is for Ronnie Lynch.
When some unexpected visitors call at the house, it looks like everyone will have a night that they won't forget in a hurry.
The Tooting Popular Front hire a private detective to prove that Speed is innocent of the crime that he has been accused of commiting.
Trying to save the town that he loves gets Wolfie in a lot of trouble.
During a party night in Wolfie's room, a party which consists of Wolfie, Shirley and Ken, a Spanish man from Bilbao called Jose turns up at the door.
When Shirley takes a job in Rimini, Wolfie threatens to throw himself off the roof of the pub.
Wolfie and the gang try to lobby a local council meeting but it all goes wrong and they end up taking over a lift instead.
Ken is shocked when Wolfie decides to turn to crime to get some money for the cause.
Inspector Tofkin asks for help from Wolfie and the Front to get his own back on his cousin Harry Fenning.
When Dad throws Wolfie and Ken out from their home, they sneak back in later as squatters.
Wolfie and the Johnsons get invited to a special party by Wolfie's new girlfriend.
Speed is being released from prison. Wolfie sees Speed's girlfriend going to a Hospital at the Clinic for having babies! Wolfie tells Shirley and Ken about what he seen, and they start talking about this, but Charile and Florence overhears them and thinks Shirley is pregnant. They tell Speed later on and it's all been a misunderstanding, but Speed is not too happy with Wolfie.
When Shirley's dad is made redundant, Wolfie decides to have a demonstration outside the factory gates.
Some stereos have been stolen from Charlie's factory, and Wolfie just happens to know where they are.
When Wolfie is protesting at the Job Centre, he gets a job, but he can't say no or his benefits will be stopped. But, when he actually goes to work he is shocked to see that Charlie is his new boss!
Wolfie tries to get into the pop world, by going for an audition.
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Wolfie tries to explain to Shirley that a man in his position doesn't get engaged.
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!
Shirley tries to convince her father to let Ken and Wolfie stay in the flat upstairs, after they are kicked out on the street.
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.
After Wolfie loses out on his vote, he decides that he will have to teach the potitical people a lesson, but it turns out Wolfie's got the wrong person!
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.
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.
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!
In this pilot for the series we meet the Tooting Popular Front and its leader. A new comedy about a young Londoner who sees himself as the Che Guevara of Tooting, with Robert Lindsay as Wolfie Smith. Some sources erroneously name the pilot as 'A Roof Over My Head', which was actually the title of the previous week's Comedy Special, written by Barry Took (which also led to a series).
Christmas Special: Ken and Wolfie take a trip over to Italy for the christmas holidays.
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| Language | English |
| Release | 1977-04-12 |
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