Budgie (TV Series) In Deep (1971) User Reviews

In Deep

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 18 August 2020]

Budgie now in colour.

For a wideboy, a grifter, an ex con, a man with no scruples. Budgie can be incredibly thick.

Budgie comes across some money in a briefcase. Passed over to him by a gangster arrested in the cinema.

At the same time Charlie Endell has given Budgie and Hazel the running of a club with the strict instructions that only Hazel deals with the finances.

Budgie starts to lose the money to a couple of pool/snooker sharks. Budgie even tells them at one point that he thought they were hustlers.

A fool and his money are soon parted. It is the least of the Budgie's problems. The gangster escapes from court and comes looking for Budgie.

As ever Charlie Endell is one step ahead. Despite the respectable clientele. Just how kosher is this club?

Budgie in colour

[Rabical-91 · 10/10 · 29 March 2024]

The first sight of our friend Budgie in colour. The first four episodes having been filmed in black and white due to industrial action affecting LWT at this time.

A shady looking man seats himself next to Budgie in a cinema clutching a briefcase. This is Maurice Khan, a notorious gangster who is being tailed by the police. Moments later, officers raid the place and arrest the man in question. As soon as he is gone, Budgie looks inside the case and is astonished to find it stuffed to overflowing with money. Knowing the rascal as we do, his sticky fingers go into action.

Hazel, strapped for cash and desperate to feed her child, pleads with Charlie Endell for a job. Taking pity on her, he gives a job as a barmaid at a drinking club he owns, however he ropes Budgie into working for him too. Initially, things look to be going well however Khan is on the run from jail and is after Budgie's blood for making off with his cash...

Very good stuff. Only someone with Budgie's lack of intelligence would squander dirty money without any regard as to repercussions. However, Budgie for once comes up from this disaster unscathed. Just as Khan corners Budgie in regards to the missing cash, the police raid the club and close it down due to it being unlicensed and at the same time apprehend Khan.

One of the club members is played by the late John Savident, who would later play Fred Elliott in 'Coronation Street'.