Citizen Smith

1 9 7 7 - 1 9 8 0  (UK)
30 x 30 minute episodes

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, 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).

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.