"Budgie" Do Me a Favour (TV Episode 1972) Poster

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(1972)

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Do Me a Favour
Prismark1028 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
That old fridge Budgie gave to Hazel is certainly a piece of work. It is a character in its own right in this episode with its belching noises.

Budgie is having a fine time with cold suppers and chilled drinks.

He also gets roped in to take Hazell's visiting cousin Herbert (Derek Jacobi) out and about. He is staying at the YMCA and is regarded as an innocent lamb.

Not when Budgie is finished with Herbert. He ends up in sex shops, strip joints, gets fleeced by Charlie Endell and then arrested for burglary.

All because Charlie Endell wants Budgie to do a little job. Steal some poronographic prints from an apartment.

Mrs Coleman has some strong stuff which interests Charlie but not the price she demands. With Mrs Coleman away in Brighton for the weekend, Charlie Endell sees an opportunity to help himself with the dirty pictures.

As always a simple burglary job goes wrong for Budgie. All because he chose third rate accomplices with names like Alfie Apple and Dicky-Tin-Ear.

An amusing episode and so far the best in the second series. An early role form Jacobi as the ineffectual Herbert who ends up losing all his money and almost his liberty.

Luckily Charlie Endell is persuaded by Budgie to ring the police to let Herbert go. He also shops Mrs Coleman to the police when he finds out that she tried to rip him off.
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