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Birds on the Wing

9.0·1 season·6 episodes·30 min avg.·United Kingdom

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.

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Episode 1
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Jul 11, 1971

Charles plainly has designs on Elizabeth...but she & Samantha have designs of a different kind.

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Episode 2
Episode 2
Jul 18, 1971

A highly successful confidence trick pulled by Charlie and the girls almost ends in disaster.

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Episode 3
Episode 3
Jul 25, 1971

A 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
Episode 4
Aug 1, 1971

Through 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
Episode 5
Aug 8, 1971

Humiliation at the hands of his Swiss bank manager prompts Charlie to try and con Elizabeth and Samantha.

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Episode 6
Episode 6
Aug 15, 1971

Charlie's in Geneva, still trying to trace the girls; but they're in Tokyo.

Cast

3 credited
Richard Briers
Charles Jackson
Julia Lockwood
Samantha
AR
Anne Rogers
Elizabeth

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