Maybe the pending victory of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership battle will bring me some joy with the strong rumour doing the rounds of the media of the return of the popular Seventies sitcom Citizen Smith. Yes the return of Wolfie Smith.
I would love to see it come back.
Robert Lindsay, who starred as would-be revolutionary Wolfie Smith in the 1970s sitcom says he’s been approached to bring back the hapless Marxist.
And the plan, inspired by the rise of Corbyn, would be to give the former leader of the Tooting Popular Front a whiff of real power.
In an interview with The Independent, Lindsay said: ‘I’ve been chased by a production company which is very much trying to get Wolfie to run for the Labour Party and bring him back into power. I think that’s a fantastic idea.’
And he said he had unfinished business with the show, which ran for four series from 1977 to 1980 – saying he quit because he wanted to be a serious actor and ‘the word “sitcom” becomes such a dirty word’.
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