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Watch the Birdies (1966)

Watch the Birdies poster
Genre
action & adventure
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 5 episodes
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A detective looks into the fashion photography scene and gets caught up with London criminals. The five part series is now lost.

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What happens

Watch the Birdies was a 1966 British television mini-series based on a screenplay by Peter Yeldham that aired on the BBC. The series was a five-part thriller series about a detective who gets involved in the London underworld through investigation of the world of fashion photography. All five episodes were wiped and are believed to be lost. Rolf von Sydow directed in 1969 a West German remake of it named Bitte recht freundlich, es wird geschossen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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