1984

[sophie_1003]

One of my university lecturers said three tv shows had taken their names from the novel 1984, Room 101 and Big Brother are the obvious ones but he couldn't remember the other one, can anyone think of it?

[Fitzer]

Citizen Smith?

[VHG]

This article may help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-F our_in_popular_media

[WoWo]

While the lecturer might think Citizen Smith comes from 1984, I doubt it does.

It's to reference to Marxist Russia, rather than anything to do with 1984.

[adrenochrome]

Winston Smith is the central character of 1984, and there was a tv show in the 1980s called 'Citizen Smith' about a left wing Londoner called Wolfie Smith.
The two are probably a paly on words by the writers, rather than a direct attribution. Big Brother and Room 101 are directly and purposefully taken from the novel.
Your teacher may give you a bonus point if you tell him/her that Terry Gilliam (the American member of 'Monty Python', cartoonist and film director) based his comic film 'Brazil' on 1984, additional to the film version of the original book, starring John Hurt.

[Ian b]

I agree with andrenochrome, Terry Gilliams' "Brazil" was the obvious choice. I think that he should have made the film version of 1984.