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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 04:57:07 PM

Title: Budgie..
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 04:57:07 PM: The Tv series will be repeated on Talking Pictures TV from Tuesday 16th June 9 pm
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on May 30, 2020, 05:04:26 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 04:57:07 PM
The Tv series will be repeated on Talking Pictures TV from Tuesday 16th June 9 pm
Hopefully with the signal toothpaste, Castrol GTX and Lyons make more of a cake adverts.
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Gordon on May 30, 2020, 05:08:49 PM: I'll take a look at that.

I used to see the actor who played the Scottish gangster-type character, Iain Cuthbertson (who was dead cool as a similar type in Supergran), around Byres Rd fairly regularly in the 1970's,
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on May 30, 2020, 05:12:02 PM: Quote from: Gordon on May 30, 2020, 05:08:49 PM
I'll take a look at that.

I used to see the actor who played the Scottish gangster-type character, Iain Cuthbertson (who was dead cool as a similar type in Supergran), around Byres Rd fairly regularly in the 1970's,
Great in Sutherland's law and brilliant turn as Doctor Arnold in BBC's version of Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 05:12:55 PM: There was a spin off series for Iain Cuthbertson's character called Charles J Endell Esq in the late 70s. It wasn't as good as it bumped up the comedy at the loss of the threat he represented in Budgie.
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 05:16:12 PM: Quote from: Your friendly illusion of self. on May 30, 2020, 05:12:02 PM
Great in Sutherland's law and brilliant turn as Doctor Arnold in BBC's version of Tom Brown's Schooldays.
And great in the lost (perhaps) Scotch on the Rocks, and in Children of the Stones.
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Walt Zingmatilder on May 30, 2020, 06:25:05 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 05:16:12 PM
And great in the lost (perhaps) Scotch on the Rocks, and in Children of the Stones.
Scotch on the Rocks ...written by Douglas Hurd.
Title: Re: Budgie..
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 30, 2020, 06:29:37 PM: Quote from: Your friendly illusion of self. on May 30, 2020, 06:25:05 PM
Scotch on the Rocks ...written by Douglas Hurd.
indeed but the TV series went a bit darker and was supposedly wiped because of that. Rumours are that the tapes survive.