“I’d love to think people are arguing about politics over the breakfast table like Wolfie and Charlie did in Citizen Smith, but I rather suspect they’re not.
Citizen Smith was really of its time in the way it distilled wider politics and events through the comedic interaction of the characters.
TV hadn’t seen the like of Citizen Smith before, and nothing’s touched it since — that’s evident from the number of people who remember it so fondly.
And they will recall that it was I, Wolfie Smith, who led the people on that glorious day.