Richard Briers
as Charles Jackson
Birds on the Wing
1971
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9.0
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Comedy
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30m
GB
• English
Director: Graeme Muir
Writers: Peter Yeldham
Birds on the Wing is a 1971 BBC Two television comedy written by Peter Yeldham and produced by Graeme Muir, originally aired in a single series of six episodes. A businessman becomes enamoured of an attractive young woman, whom he finds out is trying to con him with her friend. The three form an unlikely alliance.
Cast
Episodes
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Episode 1
E1 30mCharles plainly has designs on Elizabeth...but she & Samantha have designs of a different kind.
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Episode 2
E2 30mA highly successful confidence trick pulled by Charlie and the girls almost ends in disaster.
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Episode 3
E3 30mA highly ingenious trick on Mr. Uskudar almost comes to grief because Charlie and the girls cannot resist trying to con each other.
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Episode 4
E4 30mThrough no fault of their own, surprisingly enough, Charlie and the girls fall foul of the local police and have to make a hasty getaway.
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Episode 5
E5 30mHumiliation at the hands of his Swiss bank manager prompts Charlie to try and con Elizabeth and Samantha.
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Episode 6
E6 30mCharlie's in Geneva, still trying to trace the girls; but they're in Tokyo.
