In Britain rhyming slang had a resurgence of popular interest beginning in the 1970s resulting from its use in a number of London-based television programmes such as Steptoe and Son, Mind Your Language, The Sweeney ( the title of which is itself rhyming slang —" Sweeney Todd " for " Flying Squad ", a rapid response unit of London ’ s Metropolitan Police ), Minder, Citizen Smith, Only Fools and Horses, and EastEnders.

* Jennifer Brinkerhoff, Stephen C. Smith, and Hildy Teegen, NGOs and the Millennium Development Goals: Citizen Action to Reduce Poverty, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Examples of this include the 1960 Danger Man episode " View from the Villa " starring Patrick McGoohan, the 1976 four-episode Doctor Who story entitled " The Masque of Mandragora " set in Renaissance Italy, and an episode of Citizen Smith in which the eponymous hero visits Rimini.

The 1977-80 BBC comedy series Citizen Smith was set in Tooting and popularised the cry " Freedom for Tooting !".

The 1970s television series Citizen Smith had the title character use the slogan in the title sequence.

In 1980, John Sullivan, a scriptwriter under contract at the BBC, was already well known as the writer of the successful sit-com Citizen Smith.

Through Ray Butt, a BBC producer and director whom Sullivan had met and become friends with when they were working on Citizen Smith, a draft script was shown to the Corporation's Head of Comedy, John Howard Davies.

Only Fools and Horses had also been the title of an episode of Citizen Smith and Sullivan felt that a longer name would help to grab the viewers ' attention.

Challis had played a similar character in an episode of Citizen Smith.

In that house, or the church itself, he was visited by Founding Fathers of the United States such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Paine ; other American politicians such as John Adams, who later became the second president of the United States, and his wife Abigail ; British politicians such as Lord Lyttleton, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl Stanhope ( known as " Citizen Stanhope "), and even the Prime Minister William Pitt ; philosophers David Hume and Adam Smith ; agitators such as prison reformer John Howard, gadfly John Horne Tooke, and husband and wife John and Ann Jebb, who between them campaigned on expansion of the franchise, opposition to the war with America, support for the French Revolution, abolitionism, and an end to legal discrimination against Roman Catholics ; writers such as poet and banker Samuel Rogers ; and clergyman-mathematician Thomas Bayes, of Bayes ' theorem.

* Smith, Roberta, " The Passions of the Good Citizen ", The New York Times, 3 May 2002

She also appeared as herself in the BBC TV comedy series Citizen Smith.

Citizen Smith is a British television sitcom.

John Sullivan became a scenery shifter at the BBC because of his desire to write a sitcom outline he had called Citizen Smith ; fearing rejection if he sent the idea in, he decided it would be better to get a job, any job, at the BBC, learn more about the business and then meet someone who would actually take notice of his as yet unwritten script.

After he approached producer Dennis Main Wilson, the first Citizen Smith script was written.

Main Wilson loved the script and saw the potential for a series and it was put in to production almost immediately as a Pilot for Comedy Special-a showcase for new talent which had succeeded Comedy Playhouse-under the title Citizen Smith.

Citizen Smith, a novelisation of the first series written by Christopher Kenworthy, was published by Universal books, London in 1978.

Playback has released two DVD volumes of Citizen Smith each with two series.

* Citizen Smith

In one episode, Mark Lamarr's team were shown a clip from Citizen Smith ( instead of a comedy clip created by the Shooting Stars team ), and were totally unaware the question would relate directly to the clip.

* Robert Lindsay, the stage and television actor probably best known for his parts in Citizen Smith and latterly My Family, was born as Robert Lindsay Stevenson in Ilkeston on 13 December 1949.

In the 1970s BBC comedy " Citizen Smith " Wolfie Smith, the leader of the fictional " Tooting Popular Front " described himself as an Urban Guerrilla.

Houseman would later, however, play a pivotal role in ushering Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), which starred Welles.

In 2009, he starred in the Mark Neveldine / Brian Taylor film Gamer, The Ugly Truth and Law Abiding Citizen, which he also co-produced.

Doug made his debut as a director / producer with the screenplay Citizen James, in which he also co-wrote and starred.

He starred his 100 favorite films on the list, marking both traditionally canonical films like Greed and Citizen Kane and harder-to-find films like Michael Snow's La Région Centrale and Jacques Rivette's Out 1.

Although her main focus has been television, Kurtz has starred in several major Hollywood films including the Agatha Christie drama Caribbean Mystery in 1983, Dangerous Liaisons in 1988, its 1999 remake Cruel Intentions, as a lesbian, activist, in the acclaimed indie film Citizen Ruth, and perhaps most notably, alongside Jim Carrey in 1997's Liar Liar.

Directed by Peter H. Hunt, it starred Douglas Sills ( Sir Percy Blakeney ), Christine Andreas ( Marguerite St. Just ), Terrance Mann ( Citizen Chauvelin ), Marine Jahan ( Madame St. Cyr ), Tim Shew ( St. Cyr ), Elizabeth Ward ( Marie ), Philip Hoffman ( Tussaud ), James Judy ( Dewhurst ), Sandy Rosenberg ( Lady Digby ), Pamela Burrell ( Lady Llewellyn ), Gilles Chiasson ( Armand St. Just ), Ed Dixon ( Ozzy ), Allen Fitzpatrick ( Farleigh ), Bill Bowers ( Leggett ), Adam Pelty ( Elton ), Ron Sharpe ( Hal ), William Thomas Evans ( Hastings ), Dave Clemmons ( Ben ), R. F.

Gross also starred in the short-lived series Citizen Baines with James Cromwell.

McKee ’ s other credits include writing and presenting the BBC series Filmworks, the Channel Four series Reel Secrets, the BAFTA Award-winning J ' accuse Citizen Kane television program which he wrote and presented, and the writing of Abraham, the four-hour mini-series on Turner Network Television ( TNT ) that starred Richard Harris, Barbara Hershey and Maximilian Schell.

* Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg and Gerald Jay Goldberg ( Harcourt, 1995 ) ISBN 0-15-118008-3

* Robert A. Heinlein named a spaceship after him in his 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy, a ' Free Trader ' ship called the Norbert Wiener mentioned in Chapter 14.

* Sargon, ruler of the Nine Worlds interplanetary empire in Robert Heinlein's 1957 science fiction novel Citizen of the Galaxy

* Derek Farr as Sir Robert Brackenbury / Earl of Surrey / Scrivener ( uncredited )/ Third Citizen ( uncredited )/ Bishop of Ely ( uncredited )

Robert A. Heinlein depicted the technique in several of his works, including Citizen of the Galaxy ( 1957 ) and Gulf ( 1949 ); and mentioned Renshaw in the context of the training of Fair Witnesses in Stranger in a Strange Land.

Public Citizen was founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, headed for 26 years by Joan Claybrook, and is now headed by Robert Weissman.

The concept was invented by the self-declared World Citizen Garry Davis in 1949, as a logical extension of the idea of individuals declaring themselves world citizens, and promoted by Robert Sarrazac, a former leader of the French Résistance who created the Human Front of World Citizens in 1945.

Cohn has also been portrayed by James Woods in the 1992 biopic Citizen Cohn, by Joe Pantoliano in Robert Kennedy and His Times, and by George Wyner in Tail Gunner Joe.

: A Practical Handbook for the Private Citizen Who Wants Democracy to Work was an early work by Robert A. Heinlein.

The other members of Claremont and Byrne's Hellfire Club were similarly drawn from the names and faces of famous actors: Sebastian Shaw was based on actor Robert Shaw, Harry Leland on Orson Welles ( who acted as Harry Lime in The Third Man and whose film Citizen Kane featured a reporter named Jed Leland ), and Donald Pierce was based on Donald Sutherland ( the surname referencing his Hawkeye Pierce character from M * A * S * H ).

In Robert A. Heinlein's " juvenile " novel, Citizen of the Galaxy, the protagonist was adopted by the captain of an interstellar trading ship which was named, " Sisu ".

Robert Lindsay ( born Robert Lindsay Stevenson on 13 December 1949 ) is an English actor best known for his television work, including his roles as Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Ian Frazier in Wimbledon and Ben Harper in My Family.

Alumni of WBAI include Margot Adler, Abraham Aig, Jan Albert, Chris Albertson, Nancy Allen, Matt Alperin, Archie Altman, Lindsay Audin, Robbie Barish, Deborah Begel, Olenka Bohachevski, Delphine Blue, Peter Bochan, Bunny Bruce, Janice K. Bryant, Doreen Canto, Pepsi Charles, Frank Coffee, Candy Cohen, Janet Coleman, Neal Conan, Pat Conte, John Corigliano, Deloris Costello, Liza Cowan, Larry Cox, Joe Cumo, Ken Davis, Barbara Day, Ife Dancy, Dick Demenus, Kathy Dobkin, Mike Edl, Barika Taheer Edwards, Matt Edwards, Dick Elman, Bob Fass, Mike Feder, Charlie Finch, Richard Fioravanti, Paul Fischer, John Fisk, Sara Fishko, Joe Frank, Gary Fried, Jim Freund, Paul Gorman, Joanne Grant, Jeff Greenfield, Edward Haber, Doug Henwood, Lex Hixon, Charles Hobson, Milton Hoffman, Mary Houston, Susan Howe, Jimmy Howes, Rob Hunter, Timothy Jerome, Reggie Johnson, Larry Josephson, Sam Julty, Citizen Kafka, Jesse Keyes, Glo Kirby, Robert Knight, Alen Pol Kobryn, Chris Koch, Robert Kuttner, Richard Lamparski, Andy Lanset, Julius Lester, Al Lewis, John Lithgow, Sari Locker, Leonard Lopate, The Mighty G-Man, Ann MacMillan, Marian McPartland, Samori Marksmen, Margaret Mercer, Frank Millspaugh, Dale Minor, Kathy O ' Connell, Andrew Phillips, Betty Pilkington, Charles Pitts, Steve Post, Charles Potter, Robert Potts, David Rapkin, Desiree K. Robinson, David Rothenberg, Jay Rothman ( Zeke ), Charles Ruas, Eric Salzman, Lynn Samuels, Bill Schechner, Baird Searles, Judy Sherman, John J. Simon, Miles Smith, Peter Cedric Rock Smith ( aka: Rocky ), Jay Smooth, Bruce Soloway, A.

* Robert C. Randall Award for Achievement in the Field of Citizen Action

), Thea von Harbou ( Metropolis ), Robert A. Heinlein ( Citizen of the Galaxy ), Robert Asprin ( The Cold Cash War ) and Andre Norton ( the Solar Queen novels ).

Dalian Robert Atkinson ( born 21 March 1968 in Telford, Shropshire ) is an English former footballer who played as a striker in the Football League and Premier League for Ipswich Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa and Manchester City, in La Liga for Real Sociedad, in Ligue 1 for Metz, in the Turkish Super League for Fenerbahçe, in Saudi Arabia for Al-Ittihad, and in the K-League for Daejeon Citizen and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.

* His son, Captain James Robert " Jack " White, co-founded the Irish Citizen Army during the Dublin Lockout and later went on to fight the Fascist Regime in the Spanish Civil War.

* Several novels and short stories by Robert Heinlein, such as Gulf ( 1949 ), Citizen of the Galaxy ( 1957 ), Starship Troopers ( 1959 ), and Friday ( 1982 ), contain references to " sleep-learning ".