Budgie the Complete Series
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Budgie Bird is a loser. A petty crook who clings to the fringe of the
bent society in London's Soho and South London, he has an eye for easy
money, pretensions to the big time and a cornered market in failure. But
Budgie is an incorrigible optimist - something will turn up, easy street
is just a block away. Atlas would blanch at carrying his troubles - a
wife somewhere, a girlfriend somewhere else and an illegitimate baby.
But Budgie bounces along, a snowball in hell trying to be a blizzard.
Budgie has admirers, though. His girlfriend Hazel admires his irrepressible
style and Charlie Endell, the Mr. Big of Budgie's scene, admires his never-say-die
attitude. But admiration won't solve Budgie's problems...
Original ITV Transmission 9 April 1971
Some Mother's Sons
Budgie seems to have fallen on his feet - a flat right in the centre of
Soho all to himself for six weeks. But why is Charlie doing him a favour
- and Hazel's mother has plans for him too.
Original ITV Transmission 16 April 1971
Brains
Budgie's on to something big. It means "playing at home" in Watford for
a change. It means seeing his wife Jean; but Budgie knows he's sure of
a welcome there, isn't he?
Original ITV Transmission 23 April 1971
Grandee Hotel
An evening of "luxury" - Spanish nosh and chateau-bottled "plonk" at the
Grandee Hotel on the North Orbital road - gives Budgie the chance of clinching
an important business deal.
Original ITV Transmission 30 April 1971
In Deep
Budgie's in the money - it's unheard of. But it's true. But how did he
get it... and more importantly, can he hang on to it?
Original ITV Transmission 7 May 1971
Could Do Better
Budgie's got a job working in Charlie Endell's bookshop. He's saving up
for a holiday. But Hazel has a problem that starts off a sequence of events
which lead Budgie back to his old school and into a tricky situation.
Original ITV Transmission 14 May 1971
Best Mates
"A man's best mate is his best mate" they say, especially when he is in
trouble. But Budgie finds that in the case of Maguire that trouble leads
to trouble, and still more trouble - 500 troubles to be exact.
Original ITV Transmission 21 May 1971
Everybody Loves a Baby
Budgie is in the farming business - but not the kind that includes furry
creatures or our feathered friends. The only "birds" are two-legged ones...
Original ITV Transmission 28 May 1971
A Pair of Charlies
Budgie gets blown up - and let down!
Original ITV Transmission 4 June 1971
Fiddler on the Hoof part 1
It's domestic problems for Budgie - one of them being his dad and, to
quote Budgie: "What is a dad? A dad is a bloke who skives off from home
and tries to tap you for a couple of quid..."
Original ITV Transmission 11 June 1971
Fiddler on the Hoof part 2
Budgie's sister, Vi, wants to marry Tony, and Budgie says he'll fix it.
But one problem is how to get Tony to the altar, and another is the "paying
guest" - Zip.
Original ITV Transmission 18 June 1971
Sunset Mansions (or Whatever Happened to Janey Baib?)
Budgie, avoiding the police as usual, meets Janey and Denzil, an odd couple,
and gets involved in the throbbing world of show business. But he finds
that in every silver lining there is a cloud.
Original ITV Transmission 25 June 1971
And In Again
Budgie gives Charlie Endell a birthday present, but Charlie shows his
gratitude in a very peculiar way.
Original ITV Transmission 2 July 1971
Dreaming of Thee
With only a few weeks left to serve of his prison sentence, Budgie finally
gets a visitor. Unfortunately, it's Charlie Endell and he's certainly
not bringing chocolates...
Guest James Bolam
Original ITV Transmission 21 April 1972
And the Lord Taketh Away
Released from jail Budgie has taken up with his erstwhile wife again in
Watford. Despite promises to her, he gets the itch to return to Soho again,
but why is he helping out the Church?
Guests James Bolam and Gordon Jackson
Original ITV Transmission 28 April 1972
Louie the Ring is Dead and Buried in Kensal Green Cemetery
Budgie needs money and he needs it quickly, but how can he get it without
reverting to his criminal ways again? A chance encounter with Hazel sets
in motion a chain of events that sweeps him along.
Guests Diane Keen
Original ITV Transmission 5 May 1972
The Jump-Up Boys
Can Budgie have gone straight and stopped his thieving? He certainly appears
to have a legitimate job and even Charlie Endell seems surprised, but
looks are deceiving.
Guests Jack Shepherd and Derek Newark
Original ITV Transmission 12 May 1972
Our Story So Far
Pursued by both the police and Charlie Endell's minions, Budgie is on
the run again. The race is on to catch him, and what does Grogan have
to do with it?
Guests Jack Shepherd and Derek Newark
Original ITV Transmission 19 May 1972
Do Me a Favour
Hazel asks Budgie to look after her cousin Herbert and take him on a guided
tour of London to keep him busy. Budgie takes him on a tour of the fleshpots
but doesn't reckon on Cousin Herbert being a bit of a handful.
Guest Derek Jacobi
Original ITV Transmission 26 May 1972
Glory of Fulham
Hazel is livid when Budgie arrives home very late one night. She gets
even more mad when Budgie tells her that he has a friend waiting outside.
A friend whom he has invited to stay the night.
Original ITV Transmission 2 June 1972
Twenty-Four Thousand Ball Point Pens
Budgie has always been one for trying to make money, but when he meets
Inky Ballamtine he gets involved in a new financial caper - capital investment.
And for a while it looks as if Budgie is becoming the first of the big
spenders.
Guests Kenneth Cranham and Alfie Bass
Original ITV Transmission 9 June 1972
King for a Day
It seems that Budgie has hit the big time when Charlie Endell clothes
him in a suit and makes him chief associate. Has Charlie recognised Budgie's
potential at long last?
Guest David Bauer
Original ITV Transmission 16 June 1972
The Outside Man
Budgie has his eye on becoming an "Outside Man" for a racecourse bookie.
To get it he needs a reference and he's got a good one - he wrote it himself.
But whose signature can he forge it from?
Guests Jack Shepherd, George A. Cooper and James Grout
Original ITV Transmission 23 June 1972
The Man Outside
Budgie treats Charlie Endell to a free ticket at a football match. While
parking up, someone takes a potshot at Charlie with a firearm and Budgie
is hit in the shoulder...
Guests Joan Hickson
Original ITV Transmission 30 June 1972
Brief Encounter
Budgie bumps into Inga the stripper and ends up in bed. He soon discovers
that having two women is not all it's cracked up to be and then things
get worse...
Guest George A. Cooper and Margaret Nolan
Original ITV Transmission 7 July 1972
Run Rabbit, Run Rabbit, Run, Run, Run
Charlie Endell is after Budgie and this time he means business and wants
blood. It seems that Budgie's friends are getting fewer and fewer, and
with the heavies looking for him all over London, Budgie's problem is
where to hide.
Guests George Tovey and Margaret Nolan
Original ITV Transmission 14 July 1972
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