Citizen Smith
 Wolfie
Smith lives in Tooting, South London and is the founding member of
an urban terrorist movement called The Tooting Popular Front.
Wolfie believes he will lead the revolution come that
"glorious day", but the TPF in reality do absolutely
nothing (just like their unemployed founder).
The other members of the TPF are his mates Ken (a weedy
vegetarian, pacifist and Buddhist), Tucker (a nervous father of
nine who dresses as a cowboy) and Speed (a violent nutter who has
been in and out of the nick most of his life).
Wolfie (Robert Lindsay) likes to think of himself as an 'urban
guerrilla' - The Che Guevara of SW17. The fact that the TPF only
has a handful of members never seems to strike him as particularly
significant.
 Wolfie's main aims in life, apart from his revolutionary
ambitions, revolve around working as little as possible and
avoiding marriage to Shirley (his girlfriend) .
He lives in Shirley's house, along with her parents - The
Johnson's. Shirley's father hates Wolfie and his "long haired
lout" ways, while her mother always mistakenly calls him
"Foxy".
Wolfie is often thwarted in his revolutionary activities by
local pub owner and gangland villain, Harry Fenning, and his firm
(Welsh gangster Ronnie Lynch replaced Fenning in the last series).
"Come the glorious day, Citizen, you'll be first
against the wall"
"You're going to need an awfully big wall,
Wolfie"
"yeh, well I've got that sorted. I'm using Hadrian's
Wall"
TRIVIA NOTE
One of the episodes of Citizen Smith (27 September
1979) was titled Only Fools And Horses. Writer John
Sullivan reused this as the name of his next TV series, which
began eight months after Citizen Smith ended.
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