Citizen Smith is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One between 12 April 1977 and 31 December 1980. A total of 30 episodes were aired.
The pilot episode aired on 12 April 1977. The first series of eight episodes aired from 3 November to 15 December 1977 (apart from a Christmas Special aired on 22 December 1977). The second series, of five episodes, aired from 1 December 1978 to 5 January 1979. A special aired on 16 August 1979 and is part of the second series, it was rescheduled due to an all out strike at the BBC on 22 December 1978, leaving blank screens on both BBC One and Two, (this industrial dispute was settled on 23 December) it is aired as episode 4 of series 2 in re-runs and it is the last episode featuring Peter Vaughan and Cheryl Hall as originally broadcast. The third series of seven episodes began on 20 September and ended on 1 November 1979. The fourth and final series consisted of seven episodes and began on 23 May 1980 and ended on 4 July 1980.
The 1980 Christmas special is 30 minutes long and aired on 31 December 1980. All episodes have originally aired on BBC One.
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“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.”
—Robert H. [Houghwout] Jackson (1892–1954)
“Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)