Budgie the Little Helicopter

Budgie the Little Helicopter is a British-Irish-Canadian-American-Korean series of children's books and animated television series relating to a fictional character 'Budgie' and his friends.^[4] The characters were based on the books by Sarah, Duchess of York. The show was coproduced by Fred Wolf Films Dublin, The Sleepy Kids Company and Sarah, Duchess of York for The west version of HTV for ITV and Scottish Television Enterprises, and originally aired on British television in 1994 on CITV, where it ran for 39 episodes and 1 Christmas Television Special, as an ITV Competitor to BBC's Oscar's Orchestra. A range of videos, books, and toys were released under the Budgie label.

On release of the first book, the Duchess was accused by the media of copying the idea for the series from an out-of-print 1960 book Hector the Helicopter, by A.W. Baldwin, which she denied.

Episodes

Season 1

1. Pippa Arrives
2. Chuck Comes Unstuck
3. Budgie's Blizzard
4. Ice Work, Budgie
5. Budgie Takes a Catch
6. The Air Show
7. All at Sea
8. Boats, Boots and Budgie
9. Copters and Robbers
10. Daydreams and Candy Floss
11. Flying in Arctic Circles
12. What's Bruin?
13. Down on the Farm

Season 2

1. Budgie Sticks To It
2. Skids, Stunts and Soap
3. Aliens Have Landed
4. Who's A Clever Budgie?
5. Blown Up, Let Down
6. Wally Waddles In
7. The Balloon Goes Up
8. Surprise, Surprise
9. Deep Sleep
10. Bad News, Good News
11. Budgie Barges In
12. Dutch Courage
13. Budgie's Opening Goal

Season 3

1. Boom, Boom Budgie
2. Writers in the Sky
3. Double Trouble
4. Eye in the Sky
5. Chuck's Buddy
6. The Aqueduct
7. Plane Silly
8. The Plane Who Cried Wolf
9. The Runaway Train
10. A Tail of Woe
11. Put Up or Stuck Up
12. Silent Flight
13. Ups & Downs

Home Video Releases

• Who's a Clever Budgie
• Surprise, Surprise
• Budgie Barges In
• ABC For Kids: Favourites

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