Perennial loser Budgie Bird is nearing the end of his prison sentence, but what`s he going to do when he gets out? Where can he go? His girlfriend Hazel`s dumped him and his wife hasn`t visited him the whole time he`s been in the nick. He also has money troubles - not only is he skint but he owes too. Then he`s paid a visit by Charlie Endell, but will this make things better or much, much worse?

Adam faith gives a career-best performance as chancer extraordinaire Budgie Bird in the second series of the top-rated London Weekend Television drama series that was first transmitted in 1972. Created and written by celebrated screenwriters Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (Billy Liar, Worzel Gummidge) and with a solid supporting cast including Lynn Dalby as Budgie`s long-suffering girlfriend, Iain Cuthbertson (Children of the Stones, The Railway Children) as the bad-tempered spiv Charles Endell, esquire, and John Rhys-Davies (Lord of the Rings, Sliders) as his henchman, Laughing Spam Fritter. The series attracted a high calibre of guest stars such as Georgina Hale (as Budgie`s wife, Jean), Jack Shepherd, James Bolam, Gordon Jackson, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Cranham and Alfie Bass.

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