In the 70's Robert Lindsay played Citizen Wolfie Smith, the leader of the Tooting Popular Front. What was his four word catchphrase shouted out defiantly at the start of each programme?
Citizen Smith Citizen Smith Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom written by John Sullivan, first broadcast from 1977 to 1980. It starred Robert Lindsay as "Wolfie" Smith, a young Marxist "urban guerrilla" 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 British. Wolfie is the self-proclaimed leader of the revolutionary Tooting Popular Front (the TPF, merely a small bunch of his friends), the goals of which are "Power to the People" and "Freedom for
Tooting & I" (1962–67) was set in the fictional Lobelia Avenue in Tooting. The BBC comedy series "Citizen Smith" (1977–80) was set in Tooting and popularised the cry "Freedom for Tooting!". The lead character in the series, Wolfie Smith (Robert Lindsay), was the founder of a fictional revolutionary socialist political organisation, the Tooting Popular Front. The Kitchens of Distinction (who formed in the area) recorded "On Tooting Broadway Station" on their album "The Death of Cool" (1992). In 2005, a 28 km diameter crater on Mars was named after Tooting. A geologic map of Tooting Crater is under preparation, and will