"Budgie" Could Do Better (TV Episode 1971) Poster

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(1971)

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Could Do Better
Prismark1027 August 2020
After his randy night at the Grand Hotel with Hazel.

Budgie learns that Hazel might be up the duff and needs 100 quid to have the pregnancy terminated.

Now working in one of Charlie Endell's mucky bookshops. It seems Budgie is already fiddling the till to save some money for a holiday.

A chance encounter in the shop with his old school teacher gives Budgie an idea to get the money he needs.

His teacher might call it blackmail, Budgie calls it a chance to sell some naughty magazines. However it is not long before Budgie has a chance encounter with a former school pupil who is now a policeman.

It takes time for the episode to get going and I was never sure which direction it was going to go.

It turns into an poignant chat between two men. The school teacher who never found love and was always passed over for promotion as the school head. His ex wife ran off with the window cleaner soon after he got married.

As for Budgie, he never applied himself at school hence why he never found a real direction in life apart from being Charlie Endell's lackey and fall guy.

As for Charlie Endell, he suffers from a bad cold here, finds himself needing to visit the police station in the middle of the night to sort out one of Budgie's mess and he still ends up in the money.
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