 Former British Popstar Adam Faith played chirpy Cockney petty crook  Budgie  Bird in this above average British TV series of the early 70s. Budgie was the eternal failure, with every scam, and every attempt to make his fortune landing him further and further into trouble, either with the police, or with his untrustworthy sometime boss, the cynical Charlie Endell (Iain Cuthbertson), a respectable club owner on the surface, and underworld villain below it. All attempts to put Budgie on the  straight and narrow  by his girlfriend (Lynn Dalby) and awful ex-wife (Georgina Hale) were in vain, and with an unflappable optimism, he bounced in and out of Prison on a regular basis as the series progressed.