Trivia / Birds on the Wing

• Creator Backlash: Richard Briers knew the series was a flop and was embarrassed that he had taken part in it:
  It was a bit of a flop and lasted just six episodes. Trouble is, in my day if you had a flop, and we all have flops, you took it off your CV, like a play that ran ten days, you didn't put it in Spotlight. Naturally, you put up your good notices and the losers went out the window. Now with these bloody computers and the internet, you can't get rid of it. Birds on the Wing, why would I want that on my credits? It was terrible; sorry love, it's there. All your sins are remembered.
• Fake Nationality: Achmed Abdul Uskudar from "Mr Uskudar's Con Nearly Goes Wrong" was played by the British John Nettleton.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The series still exists in the archives (mostly as monochrome telerecordings) but has never been seen in any form since its initial 1971 airings.

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