Citizen Smith

Mainly EastEnders, Doctor Who and The Bill.

mostly famously for she died at the age of 76 best known for her roles in the 1970s sitcoms as Shirley Johnson and Citizen Smith I don't know if you've ever watched that yes

I have I have seen Citizen Smith yeah and the actor that was out of that also did that family sitcom that was on the BBC

Is that my family, no?

Yeah, but yeah.

So Robert Lindsay was in Citizen Smith as well.

And he played up to Zoe Wanamaker in My Family, which also has the actor that may have played Doctor Who, but has always denied it.

He's never been considered for the role.

Rodney's the smart one.

Sanjit was able to enlighten us to the fact that Trigger's story, the she wanted to go with me story, was actually first used in Citizen Smith with a story told by the main character, Wolfie.

So not that this is a problem at all.

And we definitely discussed this in the very early days of Only Fools and Horses that there was a lot of jokes from Only Fools and Horses and other things that John Sullivan was writing at the same time.

So it's not a problem, but it's actually quite interesting to know that that joke was already used in one of his other sitcoms.

And then it got me thinking about how few people have seen Citizen Smith.

I've never even seen an episode of Citizen Smith, have you? No, neither have I.

And I don't think I'd even heard of it until I started doing work on this podcast, which is actually crazy.

But old Burnham, Andy Burnham, for the people.

Like Citizen Smith riding, isn't he? With his Everton shirt on.

Beer in the stands.

Will it work? Will it work? Did we want to see that? I mean, when I went to Dortmund, it was kind of a feature of...

Look, what am I thinking of? I'm thinking of-

You're... [laughs] Oh, no, not Citizen Smith.

You're thinking My Family.

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