"Budgie" Brains (TV Episode 1971) Poster

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(1971)

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Brains
Prismark1011 July 2020
We are introduced to Budgie's estranged wife Jean in this episode.

It is a rather shouty performance from Georgina Hale as if she is performing in the theatre. I much preferred Hazel.

Budgie gets his hands on some trading stamps. It was the days when Green Shield stamps were very popular. Collect enough and you can trade them in for a gift. Get enough and you could pick up something decent. Although it will take years to collect so many stamps.

These are stolen stamps but Budgie and his associate expects to make some profit out of it. Alas it is not to be. As Charlie Endell warned Budgie, the stamps are hard to shift.

Budgie goes to Watford to stay with his wife for a few days, she works in a supermarket and carries on with the manager. I did not know what to think when she claimed she had the brains.

As established in this show. This is another get rich quick scheme that is doomed to failure even when Budgie uses his loaf to trade the stamps in for a gift.

Charlie Endell steals a scene when he shows Budgie how to be a salesman.
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10/10
Stamped on from a great height!
Rabical-9114 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Having been forced to leave his flat in Soho, Budgie returns to Watford to kip down at the flat if his estranged wife Jean, who works at the local supermarket and is having an affair with the store supervisor. She is less than pleased to see him however still puts him up.

Budgie's latest 'get rich quick' scheme sees him attempting to flog knocked off trading stamps. However, Charlie Endell points out to the gullible deadbeat that people wouldn't be daft enough to buy stamps for trading when it is cheaper to buy the goods outright from the retailers. Budgie however refuses to listen.

When punters show no interest, Budgie decides to trade them in for goods to sell on instead. However the store manager realises straight away that they are fake and calls for the police, forcing Budgie to make a run for it...

Lynn Dalby is absent from this edition, which provides an excuse to introduce the other woman in Budgie's life, his wife Jean, played by the late Georgina Hale. He treats her no different than he does Hazel. Not that Jean herself is a saint. However, it still doesn't justify the verbal vitriol she endures from Budgie.

Good episode, though Lynn Dalby is missed, and Georgina Hale's dog whistle like voice does grate on one after a while.
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