WHO'S A CHEEKY BOY THEN?

Also recently arrived at Castel Crivens, is the complete 2 series box set of BUDGIE, starring ADAM FAITH and IAIN CUTHBERTSON.  This was a show I watched when it first came out in 1971, seeing all but the last 5 episodes of series 2 in our previous house, with those final 5 being aired each week for the first month in our new (and my current) home in '72.  In 1984 or '85, they were repeated, by which time we were ensconced in yet another abode (from which we returned after 4 years to its predecessor), which means I last saw them 35 or so years ago.  Funnily enough, that period seems nowhere near as long as the 13 or so years between the original '70s broadcasts and their '80s repeats, which just goes to show that time really seems to accelerate the older one gets.  How can 35 years seem of lesser duration than 13? Unreal, isn't it?!

Anyway, Budgie was a great wee show, and every male in the country fancied his on-screen girlfriend HAZEL, played by LYNN DALBY - and GEORGINA HALE who played his TV wife JEAN wasn't half bad either.  No doubt I'll be branded sexist by some people for those observations, but note that it's only called sexism when a man appreciates a woman's physical appearance, not the other way around.  The guy taking off his trousers in the laundromat in the TV ad, or the DIET COKE man taking off his shirt aren't considered sexist, because, as we all know, when women drool over men, it's perfectly acceptable and not offensive in the slightest.  (The people - male or female - who indulge in such double-standards are total plonkers in my view!  Women indulge in their own form of sexism all the time.)

Anyway, do you remember Budgie?  (No, not the helicopter.)  If so, feel free to say what memories it conjures up for you (if any) if you watched it back in the day.

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