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1971 Certificate 15
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Adam Faith gives a career-best performance as chancer extraordinaire Budgie Bird in the top-rated London Weekend Television drama series that was first transmitted in 1971. Created and written by celebrated screenwrters Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (Billy Lair, Worzel Gummidge) and with a solid supporting cast including .. Read more

Starring Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson, Lynn Dalby, Georgina Hale
Director Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Genres Drama, Television

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Budgie - Series 1

Adam Faith gives a career-best performance as chancer extraordinaire Budgie Bird in the top-rated London Weekend Television drama series that was first transmitted in 1971. Created and written by celebrated screenwrters Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (Billy Lair, Worzel Gummidge) and with a solid supporting cast including Lynn Dalby as Budgie's long-suffering girlfriend and Iain Cuthbertson (Children of the Stones, The Railway Children) as the bad-tempered spiv Charles Endell, esquire. The Series attracted a high calibre of guest stars such as Georgina Hale (as Bodgie's wife, Jean), Anthony Valentine, Peter Sallis, Jack Shepherd, Betty Marsden, John Thaw and John Rhys-Davies.

Starring Adam Faith, Iain Cuthbertson, Lynn Dalby, Georgina Hale
Director Jim Goddard, Jim Goddard, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Studio NETWORK
Run time DVD: 10 hrs 50 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Drama, Television
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: unknown
Production year: 1971
Format DVD

Budgie - Series 1 (4 discs) (1971)

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    Contains Episodes: 1.Out, 2.Some Mother's Son, 3.Brains, 4.Grandee Hotel....

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    Contains Episodes: 8.Everybody Loves A Baby, 9.A Pair Of Charlies, 10.Fiddler On The Hoof: Part 1....

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Budgie stands the test of time

    Whilst growing up in the 1970's, I recall the many furtive attempts to stay up and indulge my fascination with adult viewing. However, it was not until the mid 1980's, with the channel 4 repeats, that I became aquainted with the Budgie series.

    I can only remember seeing Budgie in colour, so on viewing the first disc of series 1, i was treated to a first viewing of each of the 4 episodes.

    What struck me immediately was, with the exception of being quaintly dated, the quality of both the script and the acting. The late Adam Faith seemed born to play the protaganist and I delighted at the host of character actors fondly remembered from a bygone era.

    Slightly stylised, reminiscent of many programmes and films from that period, both the fashions and the 'argot' contribute to dating Budgie. Younger viewers would be baffled at the use of 'bread' for money, or the wardrobe and hairstyles of the cast. The themes such as sex,petty crime, estranged spouses and the working class 'Jack the Lad'would fail to titilate today. Even watching during the 80's, the show was an obvious forunner to contempories such as Minder and Only Fools and Horses. However, where time and repeated viewing has been unkind to many films and series from decades gone by, Budgie appears to be one of those exceptions to the proverbial rose tinted specticals. I anticipate watching the remaining discs from series 1, before renting series 2 whilst lamenting why it is that they cannot seem to make things like this anymore!

      • Michael Mather from Newmarket, Suffolk
      • Posted 08 Oct 2006 23:00

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  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    ENJOYABLE BUT DATED

    VERY LIVELY START BUT SERIES WAINS IN LATTER EPISODES

      • A customer from NORTH WALES
      • Posted 04 Sep 2006 14:36

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      • Adam Faith gives a career-best performance as chancer extraordinaire Budgie Bird in the top-rated London Weekend Television drama series that was first transmitted in 1971. Created and written by ...