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Citizen Smith
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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.The show starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist 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), whose goals are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting". In reality, he is an unemployed dreamer and petty criminal whose plans fall through due to laziness and disorganisation.A novelisation was published in 1978. | |
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Inkblot Test | |
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Inkblot Test: At one point, Tucker is having marital problems, and for some reason the others deduce that he is becoming mentally unstable. They borrow a psychoanalysis book from the library which has some inkblot tests in it. Tucker reports that all the cards remind him of sex. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The first 3 series' opening credits start with Wolfie walking out of Tooting Broadway station. The final episode closes with him walking into it. | |
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Revolutionaries Who Don't Do Anything: Wolfie was a classic small-time example of the trope. | |
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Courtroom Episode | |
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Courtroom Episode: "The Letter Of The Law". | |
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British Brevity | |
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British Brevity: While Citizen Smith got four seasons, season one comprised only nine episodes; season two, five episodes, and the last two, seven each. | |
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Artistic Licence – Law: In the series 4 episode "The Letter of the Law", Wolfie finds himself doing jury service. However, given that he has a criminal record (which, following the abortive attempt to take over Parliament in the climax of series 3, includes a crime for which he was sent to prison) which would actually make him ineligible to serve on a jury. | |
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Air Voyance | |
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Air Voyance: Very first scene of season three was Wolfie shouting "GOODBYE SHIRL!" as his girlfriend flew out of the country. | |
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Studio Audience: Standard in sitcoms of the period. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: During the first season; the opening credits featured Wolfie Smith delivering his "Power to the People' salute in various places with disastrous results. | |
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Tank Goodness | |
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Tank Goodness: Smith gets a hold a Scorpion AFV in one episode and attempts to storm Westminster. He succeeds, but his moment of triumph comes to an abrupt hault, when it turns out Parliament is on Summer Recess. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: Practically every character in the series called Smith by a different name - For example, Shirley called him "Wolfie", her mother "Foxy", her father "Yeti", Tucker called him "Smiffy", Speed "Smudger" and the pub landlord called him "Trotsky". Season four's landlord called him "Wally" (from his real name Walter). | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Shirley's mum Florence is as clueless as they come. | |
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Bruiser with a Soft Center: Speed. | |
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