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Budgie

(shown left) Iain Cuthbertson and (shown right) Adam Faith in ITV television series Budgie
Format Sitcom
Created by Keith Waterhouse
Starring Adam Faith
Country of origin United Kingdom
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Broadcast
Original channel ITV
Original run 1970 – 1972

Budgie was a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was broadcast on ITV between 1970 and 1972. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U A celebrity is a widely-recognized or famous person who commands a high degree of public and media attention Terence (Terry Nelhams-Wright, known as Adam Faith (23 June 1940 East Acton, London &mdash 8 March 2003 Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [1]

The series was created by Keith Waterhouse the scriptwriters were Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall and Douglas Livingstone. Keith Waterhouse (born 6 February 1929 in Leeds, England) is a Novelist Newspaper columnist and the writer of many Keith Waterhouse (born 6 February 1929 in Leeds, England) is a Novelist Newspaper columnist and the writer of many Willis Hall ( 6 April 1929 - 7 March 2005) was an English Playwright and Radio and Television Produced by Rex Firkin and Verity Lambert.

Series plot

The title role, a chirpy cockney petty criminal newly out of prison, was played by former pop singer Adam Faith and was his first starring role for television. The term Cockney has both geographical and linguistic associations A prison, penitentiary, or correctional facility is a place in which individuals are physically confined or interned and usually deprived of a range of [2] His name in the series was Ronald 'Budgie' Bird, after the budgerigar birds sometimes kept as pets in England, and generally known in the USA as parakeets. The budgerigar ( Melopsittacus undulatus) commonly called parakeet, shell parakeet, budgie, or common pet parakeet in US English A parakeet is a North American term for any one of a large number of unrelated small to medium sized Parrot species that generally have long-tail feathers

The series co-starred Iain Cuthbertson as Charles (Charlie) Endell, a suave and Machiavellian Glaswegian gangster based in London, who employed Budgie, often against his better judgement, or when he was in need of an unsuspecting fall guy. Iain Cuthbertson is a distinguished Scottish Character actor born 4 January 1930 in Glasgow. Machiavellianism is the term that some social and personality psychologists use to describe a person's tendency to deceive and manipulate others for personal gain Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Fall Guy ( Katmata koshin kyoku, 蒲田行進曲 is a 1982 Japanese film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Two series, each of 13 episodes, were made. Although colour TV had been introduced one year earlier the first four episodes were made in black and white. This was due to industrial action by technicians at producers London Weekend Television, affecting many popular shows which should have been made in colour but were, for the period of the 'colour strike', made in monochrome only. This "colour strike" did not affect just London Weekend Television, it also affected all of the other ITV stations.

Far from going straight, Budgie's object was to stay out of regular employment by any means possible, while working on getting his way with his girlfriend who objected to his ways. Each episode was a complete story, usually depicting Budgie's involvement in some harebrained scheme to make money, usually somewhere on the wrong side of legality. However he was continually the victim of circumstance, or of the sharper, more experienced underworld operators he tried to emulate.

Plots included:

Eventually all his "friends" desert him and he winds up back in jail, ironically for something he had nothing to do with.

Other regular members of the cast included Lynn Dalby as Budgie's girlfriend, Hazel Fletcher, Georgina Hale as his wife, Jean, June Lewis as Mrs Endell and George Tovey as his father, Jack Bird. Lynn Dalby ( 17 February 1947 in Harrogate) is an English actress Georgina Hale (born 4 August 1943) is an English actress who has appeared in many films and television programmes John Rhys-Davies (later of Sliders) has an early regular role as a corpulent gangster working for Endell, with the colourful name of Laughing Spam Fritter. John Rhys-Davies (born May 5, 1944) is a British Actor and vocal actor born in England Sliders is an American Science fiction television series that ran for five seasons from 1995 to 2000.

The series was cut short when Faith had a serious car accident in 1973 and nearly lost a limb. [3]

In 1979 a spin-off entitled Charles Endell Esq. was made with Iain Cuthbertson reprising his character, but Budgie himself was not present. Due to another ITV technicians' strike which took the network completely off the air for three months, the series was postponed and only six episodes were made.

A musical - based on the characters of the series (but featuring only Adam Faith from the original TV cast) with book by the script writers of the original series - opened at the Cambridge Theatre, London on October 18 1988 and ran for 3 months. Musical theatre is a form of Theatre combining Music, Songs spoken Dialogue and Dance.

References

  1. ^ Budgie | A Television Heaven Review
  2. ^ Budgie | A Television Heaven Review
  3. ^ Faith went into semi-retirement for almost a year in 1973 after he was seriously injured in a car crash, in which he almost lost a leg. http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/faith.htm Retrieved 31/08/07

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