Citizen Smith

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Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as Walter Henry "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" in Tooting, south London, who is attempting to emulate his hero Che Guevara. The main character's name comes from Winston Smith in Orwell's '1984' (claims that it was an alias of Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone whilst living in Paris are an internet urban legend with no foundation), with the first name being a reference to German poet and dissident Wolf Biermann's 1973 song "(Hasta Siempre) Commandante Che Guevara". Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely being his small bunch of friends), the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for Tooting". Wolfie dresses in a stereotypical fashion for rebellious students of the period: logoed T-shirt, denim jeans, Afghan coat, and black beret. He supports Fulham and occasionally wears...

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