Citizen Smith

Citizen Smith

Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom. The show was written by John Sullivan, who later wrote Only Fools and Horses. The pilot was transmitted on 12 April 1977 in the Comedy Special series of one-off plays, and the series proper ran from 3 November 1977 to 31 December 1980.Citizen Smith...

is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 between 12 April 1977 and 31 December 1980. A total of 30 episodes were aired.

The pilot episode

Television pilot

A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...

 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.

Pilot

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Series 1

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Series 2

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Special

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Series 3

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Series 4

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Christmas Special

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