Budgie the Complete First Series - Competition

Release Date: 22^nd May 2006

Thanks to Network, we are delighted to announce a competition with the chance to win a copy of Adam’s Budgie series, which is about to be released on DVD.

This competition has now ended.

And the three winners are:

• Jem Jedtzejewski from West Yorkshire
  
  
• Colin Wilson from Liverpool
  
  
• Frank Quinlivan from Southgate, London

They will shortly be receiving their prizes direct from Network.

Many thanks to all who took part in the competition and we hope you will enjoy the DVD anyway, even if, like us, you have to pay for your copy!!

These were the competition questions:

1. One of the actors who appeared in Budgie also appeared in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Name him and the character he played in Budgie.

• John Rhys-Davies - Laughing Spam Fritter

2. Name the two actresses who played Hazel opposite Adam in Budgie: one in the TV series and the other in the stage musical.

• Lynn Dalby, Anita Dobson

NETWORK TO RELEASE
BUDGIE – THE COMPLETE FIRST SERIES (12) ON DVD

Network is proud to present the release of British pop legend and icon Adam Faith’s Budgie – the Complete First Series (12) on 22^nd May 2006 as a 4-disc set containing all thirteen episodes from the first series of this classic British drama.

Adam Faith (Stardust, Love Hurts, Beat Girl) stars as the down-and-out – yet forever optimistic – Ronald ‘Budgie’ Bird. A petty crook that clings like a limpet to the fringes of the bent society in London’s Soho, he’s always got one eye on a get-rich quick scam – and one eye on the big time. He’s got a wife he never sees, a girlfriend and an illegitimate lovechild hidden away – but he bounces on irrepressibly, knowing he’s got admirers out there. For one, his girlfriend Hazel admires his cheeky, happy-go-lucky style, and Charlie Endell – the ‘Mr Big’ of Budgie’s scene – admires his never-say-die attitude. But admiration doesn’t pay the bills…

A huge hit on its original release in 1971, Budgie was the first TV hit for Faith, having already conquered the music industry – where he spent some twenty years at the top, competing with the likes of Cliff Richard for the public’s affections. Budgie is widely recognised as one of the high-points of Faith’s multi-faceted career, which included jobs as a financial journalist, stage actor and music mogul.

Co-starring alongside Faith are Iain Cuthbertson (Gorillas in the Mist, The Railway Children) and Lynn Dalby (Emmerdale, Crossroads). Budgie – the Complete First Series is sure to appeal to all fans of Faith’s work as well as those who enjoyed Hazell, Minder, and Shameless.

Budgie